Comments on: Organized and Personal Religions

By: Haider

Haider — Sun, 09 May 2010 08:39:03 +0000

Dear Akif,

Thank you for your input.

I’m not advocating that people follow a personal religion. I’m saying that based on people’s thoughts and feelings, they already are following a personal religion. There’s no way of escaping this, since we are human beings and we relate to beliefs differently.

I definitely agree with you about the confusion that can arise from considering all the possibilities available to us, which is why it’s essential that we are aware of our approach to thinking, and seek to increase our knowledge and ability to reason, so that we can arrive at accurate beliefs that support us in life.

Looking forward to further feedback from you.

By: Akif

Akif — Sat, 08 May 2010 19:14:46 +0000

Your way of reflecting the thoughts makes your article to burst the ground and open endless number of paths for new ideas. For intelligent people like you that provides more benefits to exercise valuable thinking, feeling and doing. However it is not straightforward for people less educated as they can be confused with multiple options available for feeling and doing and get lost with the right way for personal religion. There are a lot of examples to underpin above stated and one of them can be considered confused thinking about multiple God’s faces.

Anyway I like you way of thinking and looking forward to your further posts….!!!

By: Haider

Haider — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 08:11:34 +0000

Hi Jade,

Thank you very much for your comments.

Your personal religion doesn’t have to conflict with your organized religion, but there will always be a difference. What you follow is your personal religion. What you would like to follow could be an organized religion. Being aware of your personal religion and explicitly defining what it is will help you identify the root causes of the struggles you experience trying to follow your organized religion.

This is an introductory post to explain what I mean by personal religion, and I’ll be writing a lot more on this subject in the future.

As to how the truth can be confirmed, the number of people who hold a belief isn’t a reflection of how true it is. But this I will leave for another post!

By: JadeDragon@innovativepassiveincome

JadeDragon@innovativepassiveincome — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 07:32:58 +0000

If you believe in truth, and believe that truth can be confirmed by the fact that millions of others have also confirmed it is truth, then your personal religion should line up with an organized religion. How you actually apply the personal religion to your life is another matter. We all have shortcomings but we just need to keep plugging away and sticking to our beliefs.
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By: Haider

Haider — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 08:45:53 +0000

Hi Manal,

Belief system is a more accurate term.

I used “Personal Religion” to include rituals people may do to express their values. And, of course, not everyone has explicitly defined their belief system, so I don’t think it qualifies as a “system.” More like a haphazard bucket of beliefs.