What intrigues you about religions not your own?

What attracts you or makes you feel interested?

What do you admire or find compelling?

What intrigues you about religions not your own?

To understand similarities and differences, always open to learning.


What attracts you or makes you feel interested?

Same as above


What do you admire or find compelling?

The continuity of the Human Race to believe in something Eternally good.

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Religions have always been of my interests

Not because I look for faith, but I just like to study the ideology and the mechanism of religions. Because I believe that religions are there to guide, but not rule mankind.

I just admire the people who never let their religions/beliefs control their minds, because religion is always tricky and if let loose it's dangerous.

I love to discuss other religions which stem from the same root of mine. Like christianity and judasim to see the differences between us and the similarities as well. And whenever I see similarity I feel the genuineness of this divine message which is still continueing from the creation of mankind till now. And what admires me is the internal,, natural and spontaneous love for the religion from its embracers. In addition, whenever I read and discuss about other religions my faith in my religion strengthens and increases.

i love reading about other religions to see what similarities there are between mine and theirs.
i love seeing how religion influences culture. i love reading about rituals and things done in people's daily lives (prayer for example) as a sign of devotion.
i like it when other people ask honest questions about mine, really love seeing people from other religions and cultures taking an interest in mine, the same way i take an interest in theirs.
at the same time, i find it really scary when people take religion too far. when a religion starts infringing on other people's rights, i think it strays away from the real purpose of religion, that of tolerating and accepting others.

I began reading about Islam in 1992. I was taking a class regarding history of the middle east. WAS a hard class. Squeeked by with a low C. I became interested then in the politics and realized how religion can be intermingled with governing a country. By reading the background of the ME region and getting to know people from the Gulf and other areas intrigued me more to open up and learn all that I could.

I began learning about Islam in about '95....took me a long way :hmm:

But anyway, I like reading and learning about all sorts of other religions and beliefs, as part of cultural understanding. I believe very strongly that if you can understand how other people think, with an open-minded and sympathetic attitude, then you never have to fight with anyone. So for that alone it's always worth knowing more about another person's faith.

I began learning about Islam in about '95....took me a long way :hmm:

But anyway, I like reading and learning about all sorts of other religions and beliefs, as part of cultural understanding. I believe very strongly that if you can understand how other people think, with an open-minded and sympathetic attitude, then you never have to fight with anyone. So for that alone it's always worth knowing more about another person's faith.
sabla really has helped me a lot in understanding islam and individual Muslim people. when i get to talk about islam with others, who only have what they get from the media, i can hold my own ground about islam. i just think of the kick-***** people in here and what they do and how they talk and quote them..i tell everybody i spend my evenings talking to people from oman, so i make them know that i do know a bit more than them, because i have friends who are muslim, and they don't.

When I tell people I talk to muslim men and women from the middle east eyebrows always raise. There is still misconceptions about the region and about Islam. When people equate extremism with a group of people it just narrows down one's world. I prefer to get to know a variety of people from a religious group and see how they view things.

marianna, you know when i first met my in-laws, they had the image of a catholic person....the one who had twenty babies, didn't allow her kids to go out, wore a scarf and an apron and didn't allow any books but the bible to enter the house.
took me a few conversations to prove them wrong. they were raised as protestants but gave the 'free choice' to their kids..meaning both kids ended up agnostic/atheist. so i can understand how non muslims who don't know any muslims personally feel about Islam. it takes reaching out towards another person, one by one, to learn about them and their religion and culture. if only everybody, just spent a few minutes a day to reach out, all sides.
arhhh..i'm blabbering...utopia..

What intrigues you about religions not your own?

What attracts you or makes you feel interested?

What do you admire or find compelling?

I think what intrigues me is how they all come from the same source, which confirms that there really is a Divine creator who is there for every human being, no matter the religious background.

^The hundreds of non middle-eastern religions would be interested to hear that.

^^^ Actually, one of my favourite Muslim scholars, Ibn al-Arabi, says it best,

'Do not attach yourself to any particular creed exclusively, so that you may disbelieve all the rest; otherwise you will lose much good, nay, you will fail to recognize the real truth of the matter. God, the omnipresent and imnipresent is not limited by one creed, for, he says, 'Wheresoever ye turn, there is the face of God (Koran 2:109).'

The man of God was equally at home in a synagogue, temple, church, and mosque since all provided a valid apprehension of God.

“Had God not checked one set of people [the oppressors] by means of another, monasteries, churches, synagogues, and mosques, in which the name of God is commemorated in abundant measures, would surely have been destroyed ” [22:40].

“To each of you God has prescribed a Law and a Way. If God would have willed, He would have made you a single people. But God’s purpose is to test you in what he has given each of you, so strive in the pursuit of virtue, and know that you will all return to God [in the Hereafter], and He will resolve all the matters in which you disagree” [5:51].

I think the above Quranic verses, truly portrays how all religions go back to the same souce, and that religious diversity is in fact the will of God.

Nah, I dunno if I should be ashamed of this, but I'm just not interested in other religions..
Maybe a reason for that is that not alot of people follow religion anymore..
And I know that islam is the right thing, so yeah I'm not bothered..

As one who doesn't especially believe, I think the commonalities among religions - which are indeed many, but not total - prove not the existence of a creator, but the shared nature of human experience.

That is, that we are all shaped by birth, death, love, loss, fear, etc., and that that in turn has shaped the stories we tell, whether around a fire hundreds of thousands of years ago, in a book written centuries ago, or on a stage or screen today. I find that incredibly moving, and hopeful.

It's like seeing different paintings, all by the same artist. All saying his name in union though all in their own special ways.
A feeling I personally cannot get enough of.

^^^Interesting analogy. Very beautiful Threadlike.

I am not curious at all because I am not a good muslim to begin with. So until I practice Islam well and understand it fully, that's when I'll start looking into other religions and understanding them.

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It's like seeing different paintings, all by the same artist. All saying his name in union though all in their own special ways.
A feeling I personally cannot get enough of.
simply oh so well put!!!