Runner-Up Religion...

[Satt]

If today you found perfectly sound and irrefutable evidence that your current religion was a total lie, what would be your second choice? Or would you just swear off religion in general? (This includes you athiests out there. I guess in your case, it would have to be proven that there IS a diety and you wouldn't know which diety is correct, only that there IS one.) Personally, I think paganism is interesting. Thoughts? (Remember, this is completely hypothetical and not intended as a debate.)

 

[nolongerhome]

If today you found perfectly sound and irrefutable evidence that your current religion was a total lie, what would be your second choice? Or would you just swear off religion in general? (This includes you athiests out there. I guess in your case, it would have to be proven that there IS a diety and you wouldn't know which diety is correct, only that there IS one.) Personally, I think paganism is interesting. Thoughts? (Remember, this is completely hypothetical and not intended as a debate.)

I'm trying to work out how to approach this as an agnostic... I guess similar for an atheist, confirmation of the existence of a God.

I would probably become a deist in that case. I have no interest in signing up to any sort of organised religion - they are clearly earthly creations.

 

[Penumbra]

If today you found perfectly sound and irrefutable evidence that your current religion was a total lie, what would be your second choice? Or would you just swear off religion in general? (This includes you athiests out there. I guess in your case, it would have to be proven that there IS a diety and you wouldn't know which diety is correct, only that there IS one.) Personally, I think paganism is interesting. Thoughts? (Remember, this is completely hypothetical and not intended as a debate.)

For me it doesn't work like that. If I found out that my current understanding of existence was lacking in some way, then I'd follow the new information to form my new tentative worldview. I didn't just pick this worldview because it was my "first choice", and if my current worldview was shown to be lacking, I wouldn't just pick a "second choice". My worldview contains a measure of agnosticism because it's irrational to form hard conclusions when not all information is known.

Religions that I have a fair amount of respect for are Buddhism, Hinduism, and New Thought. But I wouldn't just pick one.

-Lyn

 

[GrowingSmaller]

If today you found perfectly sound and irrefutable evidence that your current religion was a total lie, what would be your second choice?

What do you mean by "if"?

 

[Chesterton]

If Christianity weren't true, I think my second choice would be Judaism. Third choice probably Taoism.

 

[GrowingSmaller]

If Christianity weren't true, I think my second choice would be Judaism. Third choice probably Taoism.

Wouldn't you have to wait for the refuting evidenvce to be considered insofar as it supported another faith or not, rather than just form a list without knowing which had more evidene in it's favour?

 

[Chesterton]

Well I already know what Judaism and Taoism are about. But depending on what the evidence was, you're right, it could have some bearing on the matter.

 

[Glass*Soul]

Wouldn't you have to wait for the refuting evidenvce to be considered insofar as it supported another faith or not, rather than just form a list without knowing which had more evidene in it's favour?

Good question. Would it be a matter of once burnt twice shy? Or would faith still be a virtue in an of itself?

 

[SithDoughnut]

I'd probably switch to Deism, as it seems like the most logical position to me.

 

[solarwave]

I would probably just become an agnostic.

If not then a religion that puts importance on the love of God just as much or more so than Christianity. I don't know what that religion would be though.

Maybe I could make up a religion Could be fun

 

[GrowingSmaller]

I'd probably switch to Deism, as it seems like the most logical position to me.

How do you know which is the most logical position when you do not know what new evidence you would be confronting? Maybe the evidence would preclude belief in deism.

 

[SithDoughnut]

How do you know which is the most logical position when you do not know what new evidence you would be confronting? Maybe the evidence would preclude belief in deism.

According to the OP, the evidence I would see would tell me that a god exists, but nothing more than that. Hence, I would probably choose deism as the logical position.

 

[joey_downunder]

If Christianity was disproved e.g. proving that Jesus did not rise from the dead via archeological evidence etc., my faith would be atheism/Scientism.

 

[Dark_Lite]

If today you found perfectly sound and irrefutable evidence that your current religion was a total lie, what would be your second choice? Or would you just swear off religion in general? (This includes you athiests out there. I guess in your case, it would have to be proven that there IS a diety and you wouldn't know which diety is correct, only that there IS one.) Personally, I think paganism is interesting. Thoughts? (Remember, this is completely hypothetical and not intended as a debate.)

Probably deism, although that isn't really a religion...

 

[Pacioli]

If today you found perfectly sound and irrefutable evidence that there IS a deity and you didn't know which deity was correct, only that there IS one, what would be your second choice?? (Remember, this is completely hypothetical and not intended as a debate.)

I shortened your quotation to an applicable form.

If there were evidence of a deity then either there are sufficient characteristics observed to make the question self-answering, or else there is inferential evidence in which case you would have to research further.

There is no point adopting some other existing religion when you have no more evidence for it than the one negated.

 

[jason taylor]

Judaism.

 

[Exiledoomsayer]

If proof of a god where to emerge then I would have to agree that the most sensible position is to switch to Deism as there is nothing else known about this god and id still have to keep the principle of "I see no reason to assume/belief more then the evidence sugjests"

This thread has had some interesting answers. I just wish people would also explain their choice.

 

[Tielec]

In reality probably christianity, it's culturally a good fit.

In my fantasy some crazy sex cult.

 

[variant]

Deism or Pantheism, whichever was more appropriate.

Also fun would be nature based peganism.

 

[kharisym]

I'd go only as far as the evidence points, so in the lack of any information regarding which religion is the right one, only that a deity exists, I'd become a religious agnostic- effectively the inverse of the path I took to atheism.

Which religions would I *want* to be true? Raelianism or Paganism.