I'm considering orthodox Christianity. Could you recommend a particular sect?
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Rambo greek orthodox.  The baddest of the bad.
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try visiting a church
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helpfull I hope but I'll let you check it out for yourself.\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esoteric_Christianity\nhttp://www.spiritunited.com/articles/exotericesoteric.htm
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One religion hmmm this is intresting, i guess that i would pick commandments that focused on helping others and promoting a society that attempts to help others, Christanity has some good guidelines in that department, also eastern religions focus on an idividuals place in the world definitly useful. Just stay away from the dietary laws... i like food in general.
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For the christians- not big, but there is a large muslim community, you should be carefull with them.\nChristians have their orthodx church, but after 50 years of communism its role is insignifficant thou people recently come back to it again,little by little.
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You are going to talk to an Orthidox Jew about religion?  Best of luck to you.  My experience with Orthodox Jews is that they know more about the Bible (Torah - Old Testament) than most people.\n\nBring a reference Bible with you, but be prepared for a "fight of Biblical proportions"  (ha ha ha.  That was funny!).  They are so well versed in the OT that they know what the NT is saying because there is so much reference in the NT to the OT.
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I am a Catholic, but of an Eastern Church.\n\nOne fascinating aspect of the Antiochean Orthodox are their hymns.  They date from the first century, when pastors complain that their hymns are from the fifties, they could take a lesson from the hymns of the actual fifties.\n\nI find the Buddhist use of negation a powerful tool for thinking about issues.  The scientific method is a philosophical method that says you cannot show things are true, rather you can only show things are false.  The rest is tautology.  This really is a powerful method and limits discord and division really.\n\nThe Jain idea of ahimsa is really agape made practical.\n\nTwo components of Wicca are interesting.  The idea of a Book of Shadows, which is an individual recording of that which is useful, meaningful etc.  In essence, you write your own scripture.  That leads to the second component of Wicca, and why I don't believe it will last more than two more generations, is that it is a very idividualized religion.  There isn't a lot that is mandatory, and hence little to object to. It opens itself up to syncratic thought, but it doesn't then have the problem of followers not fitting the orthodoxy.  Very few people are really orthodox, though many believe they are.  Wicca purposefully bypasses the problem\n\nI love the Cargo Cults, it proves that religion is such a deep part of human existance, and that real knowledge and religion can be completely disconnected.  Just a note, I believe intelligent design is a Cargo Cult, a comment that will likely bring screams of blasphemy down on me.  Nonetheless, it has all of the features of one.\n\nIslam is fascinating in its absolute insistance upon submission to the will of God.  Most people don't realize that the United States and Islam are really philosophical mortal enemies.  Submission really requires a complete surrender of freedom.  It is philosophically an anti-freedom religion.  The whole goal is to eliminate anything against the will of God and to bring the world back to God.  Certain radicals have decided to do this violently, but that isn't really the point.  The United States is the pure autonomy, do what you want state personified.  The government is designed to create a laizze faire environment, even if that has partially disappeared since the crisis of the Great Depression.  Protestant Christians from the US often mistake Americanism for Protestantism.  Christianity has a submission element to it as well, just not as pronounced.  It also has the balancing passages that proclaim that if the Father has given us free will, why should we take away the freedom of others.\n\nTao is interesting.  If you abolish good and evil and look at balanced and unbalanced you get a different view of the world.  It is a fundamentally different question to ask if you are in line with what is natural for you and are you doing it in a healthy (balanced) way.\n\nOne thing interesting I think about my own part of the Catholic Church is that our service is a reduced down version of the Liturgy of James.  The service has changed little since it was given at Antioch.  We still have the lines, optional when out of times of persecution, "The doors, the doors, in Wisdom be attentive!"  Reminding the doorkeeper to watch for Roman soldiers, but also that what is going on inside is far more important and so to be attentive.  The only real changes our service has was the adding of "air," to the line where we pray for "all who travel by sea, air and land," with the coming of flight.  There was a change in the year 750 to move the prayers of the faithful from after the scripture readings to before in order to put ourselves in prayer before God as the first action.  There was an insertion called the hymn to the Only Begotten added in the 400's I believe.  There was a shortening by John Chrysostum in the early 300's and a shortening (taking it to about 1 1/2 to 2 hours) by Basil of Ce
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Gnosticism agrees with the teachings of just about every religion in the world.  Orthodox Christianity is the only one with that dying for sins nonsense.  I don't know, in my opinion the truth is within us, not within a book, if it is in us all, it would be universal.  The actual words of Jesus are universal.  All that other nonsense came from Paul and is not.
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Like most Roman Catholics I pay lip service to my faith and am terrible about attendance.  Orthodox members take seriously the obligations of the sacriments and of course the holy days of obligation.  The orthodox do not recognize the Holy Father as Christ's Vicar on Earth.
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I think it's great to go to several churches. It's also great to find one that you consider your home church. You can do this without turning your back on other denominations. The church needs more people like you who are not only willing, but excited to cross the denominational lines. Afterall, unity is so important!
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Christianity, Islam, and sometimes Judaism (depending on the sect).
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Orthodox Christians appreciate the efforts of the interfaith movements.  We often do charitable work with Catholics and other Christian organizations.  \n\nBut pluralism is very different.  World religions directly contradict each other.  The only way to interact in a religious way is to ignore our differences, and in so doing, become unfaithful to our own faith.\n\nI know wonderful people like you wish to see the human race avoid suffering.  This is very noble.  But in the end the Lord did not promise us an existence free from pain or harm, but rather a blessed opportunity to share in the suffering of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.\nIf this makes absolutely no sense to you, marry a man and devote yourself completely to him.  As you are hurt by him, forgive him.  Sacrifice for him and return evil with good.  And as the years slip by you will just begin to understand that this amazing love you two share simply could not have come into existence any other way than the way of suffering.  Then you will have enormous insight into what Jesus Christ did, and still does, for you and me!!\n\nGod bless!!
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I recommend a religous message board. Try these:\n\nwww.faithforum.org\nwww.christianforums.com\nwww.iidb.org
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crazymatic\n\nThats not nice. Pardon me. Pentecostalism is probably the broadest faction of christianity out there. Even in AG the churches are vastly different from one place to the other. Most any charismatic church will feel okay for you.\n\nBut of the ones you mentioned-  Baptist would be closest...But some Baptist churches can be a little tight, be careful if you feel the Spirit. Stay in your pew and you'll be okay. I did not mean that to be funny.
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Check with some of the other Denominations. I am involved in the ACTS Retreats in the Diocese Of Victoria and we use a Methodist one and two Baptist ones besides our Retreat Center.
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If you are just looking for some straight facts about different denominations and what they believe there is a great book called "Handbook Of Denominations" by Mead. It will give you lots of great info.
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Well, it's certainly not orthodox Christianity, but I must admit it makes a kind of sense. You're wrong about worship, though. IF the Holy Spirit co-created Jesus before the universe began, then She is just as worthy of worship as the Father and the Son. \n\nKinda makes you wonder what's planned for the Bride of Christ, doesn't it?