Religious Conversion - Your views - Page 9

Originally posted by: qwertyesque

No you dont there is no process for becoming one.. even if you live like an hindu..read scriptures...etc you dont become one... thats cos unlike other religions.. there is no process of becoming hindu...

I absolutely abhor saying this but even I have to admit that qwerty is right here.

We hear about folks adapting hinduism but I have yet to hear getting converted to hinduism. Some folks have a misplaced notion thata janeyu ceremony will convert them. What they don't realize is that even amongst hindus - not all can wear the janeyu.

How can you convert into something thats not a religion?

Its like a Wisconsinite converting into a Texan. Ain't gonna happen even if they drag my butt down to Texas.

Originally posted by: return_to_hades

How can you convert into something thats not a religion?

Its like a Wisconsinite converting into a Texan. Ain't gonna happen even if they drag my butt down to Texas.

how can compare sillycities with religion of highest order.......😡

Originally posted by: qwertyesque

how can compare sillycities with religion of highest order.......😡

Fool! They are states, not cities.

Besides, I am a solipsist. My mind is the only thing that matters. 😊

I think attempts to recruit followers for any religion/faith should be kept out of the public and in churches/mosques/temples/synagogues/gurdwarahs. Oh that's funny - I wrote synagogue there when Judaism does not permit converting - whoops. Anyways, if someone is interested in a particular faith, they will make it a point to find a way to learn more about the religion or to go about converting into that faith. There is no need for followers of any religion to go out and attempt to convert people - that is ridiculous.

For example, I exited off the freeway today, still going about 70mph an hour, came to a light, and slammed my brakes, seeing women in neon colored t-shirts going around 'selling Jesus' (as their shirts claimed) on the street. It was extremely irritating to see them hand out flyers that most people end up throwing away anyways - and scream obnoxiously as they made their way around the cars. The friggin' light went green, and they still wouldn't move out of the way. One of them was standing in my lane, chitchatting to a guy who looked like he could care less about God at that hour, blocking all the traffic. Arghh - at least the druggies that stand on the sides of the road know that they better get out of the way when the light goes green, 'cause otherwise, they'll get run over. But who's going to run over a lady from a church? Anyways, she still wouldn't move out of the way - so I exclaimed loudly "Cant she go sell Jesus on some other street" -- and well, I think she kinda sorta heard me because my windows were down and she turned around and glared. Anyways, I wasn't trying to be disrespectful, its just that I really wasn't planning on hearing a sermon in the middle of the road.

I think that belief starts from within - you do not need an official 'conversion' to believe in something - if you start believing and following a particular faith - then you've converted.

Haha, I also remember the hot blonde-haired/blue-eyed Mormons that used to come visit me long back. I wonder if flirting is a significant aspect of their beliefs, because that was their primary concentration. They used to offer to come in and help around our house. I didn't mind- I'd like to see them clean my bathroom - but my parents would have a heart attack seeing so many gora boys in our house. 😆 I remember they started coming everyday - I got the door the first three days, and then let my dad get it the fourth day - they never came back again or offered to do anything again. 😆 Much later, a different set of guys came - I told them I didn't speak English, so they brought me their scripture in Spanish, Arabic, Urdu, and Hindi, unable to decipher my brown skin. 😆

Originally posted by: Believe

Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Mohammedanism ' these are only ideologies, dogmas, creeds..... they are only cults. The true religion has no name, it cannot have any name...... about the conversion...converts the poor, the hungry, the beggars, the orphans, not by any spiritual impact on them but just by giving them food, clothes, shelter, education. But these have nothing to do with spirituality. some religious group has converted atremendous amount of people, but on the point of the sword.... these kind of conversion is not worth calling religious😊

Originally posted by: Summer3

Moral education and human values should be taught Once these are followed religion becomes academic.

But the priests and the pastors and so called holymen need to collect a lot of money from the people, so they get the followers to push their religions. So religion becomes commercial. Religion should enter cyberspace too.

I would love to open a Religious Portal and collect donations through the net too.😆

IMO Religion is a way of life, perfectly fits with the oldest way of living,Give people the norms of living, give them logic and reasoning why to do a thing and why not to do a thing.

Originally posted by: Believe

😆Hell is fulll with these religous people.....😆thats why God searching for New place to shelter to accomodate these groups...😉😛