Forced to be Religious

[modeller]

If you were forced to adopt any religion, under threat of death, which would be the LAST ONE you would choose and why ?

[sara3]

scientology

[suzie1]

islam

[keyplus90]

First of all You can never be forced to adopt a religion. Anything forced would always be temporary and can never be accetped by your heart. However if (even temporarily) you are forced by someone then which religion you would adopt depends on who is forcing you.

[modeller]

Let us assume keyplus90, as has happened in history, in Rome and Greece and at times in the Arab world that the authorities want to the see the populous being controlled by clerics. What they fear is an uncontrolled Godless Society.

[joggerjayne]

The US pretty much forces religion on people.

Could you imagine an American Presidentail candidate saying ...

"This is the 21st Century. I really don't believe in a magical Creator."

In the US, you MUST follow a religion, or else be castigated by the masses.

[Booldawg]

Whereas in the UK its the total opposite

[modeller]

For myself the last faith I would adopt would be Catholicism because of its bullyng doctrine and its hypocrisy.

[naomi24]

Islam - for a multitude of reasons.

Keyplus is right. If you were forced to adopt a religion the one you would choose would depend upon who was forcing you. However, you might make the right noises and the right gestures in public in order to save your skin, but that wouldn't make you a true convert, so in that respect the tyrants would have failed.

[Mr Veritas]

I am sorry to sidestep your question, but I WOULD willingly die than accept ANY religion.

[joggerjayne]

Judaism

I couldn't stand not going out on a Friday night.

[Mr Veritas]

PS:~
Having been to the USA many times,and staying with folks and not in a hotel,I can only say this.
You can criticise ANYTHING in the USA,except religion;that is WHite Anglo Saxon Protestantism.
Say you hate their food they will be OK.
Say you hate their way of talking,they will laugh.
Say their politicians are corrupt,they will agree.
Say their children are fat,they will sadly concur.
Say their President is a moron,they know it.
BUT
Say there is NO GOD,and you will be on the first plane back!

[Mr Veritas]

Sorry the above was to agree with JJ.

[joggerjayne]

It's true, Mr V.

The most technologically advanced nation on the planet are terrified to come out and say that they believe science over faith.

Stewart Cink won the Open last year. He stood on the green afterwards, and thanked God.

Does he (and most of the US) think that, if there is a God, his biggest issue at that time was helping Cink beat Tom Watson?

Oh, hang on ... did Watson tell the American public that he was a non-believer, or something? Maybe that's why God steered Watson's ball into the deep rough during the play off !

I'm converted !

I have seen the light !

Ooh, that reminds me ... I need Light bulbs when I go to Waitrose.

[joggerjayne]

ps. Interesting statement on the work ethic by Stewart Cink ...

I won the Open ... not because I worked really hard and practiced a lot ...

... but because God favoured me over Tom Watson today.

[jno]

there are plenty of religious people (of various faiths) in the USA, and plenty who aren't. I know some of the latter. They don't feel under the slightest threat. Their constitution guarantees them religious freedom. We don't have a constitution; we have bishops sitting as of right in parliament.

[joggerjayne]

jno ...

You're right.

US citizens can choose ANY religion.

But, if they hope to be elected to public office ...

... they can't choose NO religion.

[jno]

used to be candidates couldn't choose to be black - now they can. You never know.

(Must admit I wouldn't try it as an atheist, though, or a naturist, or a communist... as an idiot is no problem.)

[joggerjayne]

Being an idiot is no problem for public office in the US ?

I'd have said it was a prerequisite !

[Jan1957]

Catholicism. The longest wedding and the longest funeral I have ever been to were both Catholic Services. I walked out of my nan's funeral. Too much fire and brimstone!

[cherrychapstick]

mormon

why because about a year and a half ago i nearly done it then they told me i would have to get my children to do it also so we could be together in death if they didnt then i would be up on the third floor and they would be on the bottom floor ,words to that effect anyway so i said feck you and left that chapter of my life behind me !!