i thought itd be a good idea to have a thread in which people just give a general outline of their beliefs/religion, so if anyone needs to know what particular religions are and stuff, they can just pop in and see a brief overview/description of each one.
it would be particularly good to get the more obscure ones/foreign ones etc that not all people would know much about, so we can further understand other people/cultures etc
edit- no religious debates over which religion is better or about issues and stuff with the religions, for this thread religious tolerance is vital and just give an overview of your religion, and respect others beliefs.

Choux

Well said, mm, one can adhere to the saying to "do unto others as one would have others do to you ...." without a lot of 'supernatural world' baggage and threats of hell and other negativity and accusations.

p3nn

As a Gnostic I have a very different understanding of the different religious texts. I don't see them as literal history. In fact I see literalism as the lowest level of understanding re what was once a mystery teaching with multiple levels of symbolism and hence no single correct way of interpreting and understanding them. Being that there are a number of possible right ways of viewing I don't look down at those who disagree with me. In fact there's always something more to learn and even the student can be the master as it were. The word "Gnostic" simply means "knower" and is indicative of how I live my life. I don't simply take a persons word for something. I'll perform the Gnostics three R's, reproof, reproof, and yet more reproof A Gnostic can be within any religion or not in one at all, i.e. can be Jewish, Buddhist (Buddha means the same as Gnostic), Islamic (Sufi), Hindi, Christian,...................