Can one “understand” a religion that one does not practice?
957473
Only if they had felt the faith/belief in their heart. They can understand intellectually but not completely.
1032239
Depending on where you live, religion might be a choice or enforced. I agree to a point with what you are saying but, if people were to simply filter out and use ONLY the morality, spirituality and common sense religion CAN teach one, then I say teach away. Unfortunately the belief in the intangable is rampant even in this modern day and age.
976637
Despite what others have said, you are right.  Although there are exceptions, CHANCES ARE that you will practice the religion of your parents.  Not everyone has an opportunity to know Christ.  There are people who have never heard the name.  Or there are those who have been introduced to Christianity in a negative way (ie. colonization).  Religion is more likely to be determined by geographic location than anything else.
38462
Since I don't know much about the religion, I can't really say. Although I don't think it's any worse than the other hypocratic religions that push their faiths on people. I just don't believe in organized religion period.
142499
Considering everything we do know that religions have supported, nothing would surprise me.  I would be more curious to know what has not been perpetrated in the name of religion.
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Without being too rude, I realy would'nt try and decipher the bible word for word or assume that everything in it will make perfect sense and not be contradictory.\n\nYou can (as has been proven across pretty much every major religion), prove one way or another that your beleifs are correct. If this was not the case, then each religon would be clearly defined rather than being seccular and fractured. Religion itself should be an idea, a best practice for living life the way you beleive is best, and letting others do the same. \n\nDont beleive everything you read, take what gives you comfort and hold on to it but know that there may be more out there than you think or less than you would like to beleive.
672046
Something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained
1175362
Dogma is not exclusive to religion.
735315
Those who follow rationality do not object to religion existing, but to the way the religious claim to have special knowledge.  In fact people follow religion without really understanding it or knowing why it exists.
197490
Some people don't know they're all from one God.
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any religion differs due to the culture it is placed in. Culture is never given up even when a new religion is excepted
525578
Possibly but I don't have scripture references.
816561
you will not find a correct answer, because there are so many denominations and tribes that are undescovered with their religions
975415
I dont know but kudos to u for looking to find out. It refects badly on my religion (Christianity) when uninfomed idiots try to babble about religions they don't know about. Cheers!
683082
In short, most religions say that other religions are wrong. So if you really believed in one of them, you would not be able to believe in any other ones.
494663
really is there are someone who have mix religion??????????i have no idea sorry
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No the ability and depth of belief or faith is the same among the worshippers in different religions. \n\nThe opposite of demonstrated truth or empirical science, is revealed truth or faith.\n\nAll the devotees of a religion have a belief in something greater than themselves and their community. This greater being is normally their god or gods. The believers' faith shapes their actions and their society. Most believers are so convinced that only their group knows the truth that they will kill others who disagree.\n\nBlaise Pascal said: "There is a God-shaped hole in the heart of every man that only God can fill." From the number of different religions around it seems that the ability to believe in something unprovable or abstract is inherent in every human. \n\nThe only religion that I can think of that differed slightly from the others was the Ancient Romans who had contracts with their deities. If the deity did not perform according to their contract with Rome then the malfactors temple would be closed and a new god installed.\n\nThomas Aquinas in his  "On Sacred Doctrine" said something along the lines that the object of belief must be true because the faithful can believe in their god.\n\nHe splits up acceptance of a faith into:\nknowledge that reason affords\nRevelation  of the supernatural end\nSalvation which they must tend by their voluntary acts\n\nThe different faiths start off with a basic knowledge, which is built up into a theology. Whether the starting knowledge is:\na "holy" book like the Koran, Bible, Book of Mormon etc. , or a "holy" spot like a Sacred Grove, or \nobservations of the seasons and astronomical events, or\nOnastic revelations to a mystic\n the end result is that a religion develops.\n\nMost political systems are not formally recognised as religions but have believers without the trappings of a central godhead.