If you had to change religions, which one would you choose?

If people can "choose" religion doesn't that in itself prove that religions are all made up and god does not actually exist?

I don't understand "choosing" what is supposedly the ultimate truth. If you choose, that removes any legitimacy and shows religion is arbitrary and fictional. :|

Also, @autisticdragonkin mormons want you to believe they have a nice community, but really it's one of the more controlling and damaging and judgemental religious communities you can find. Even if you subscribe perfectly to all their teachings you still will be judged as being "too mormon" and chastized. And if you dare to drink or have sex, you will be shamed and ostracized. And if you masturbate? Be prepared to have everyone in the church know and to be interviewed and scrutinized by old male higher ups in the church and publicly shamed.

Also, women can't do anything meaningful in the religion and they didn't allow blacks until the 70s. And they have a big hatred/fear for anyone who strays from mormonism, so if you second guess them get ready to lose all your support you ever had.

Yah...not so great a community.
 
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I'm raised and confirmed Catholic. But I'm definitely atheist now. So if I had to choose a religion? Instead of going with the familiar Catholicism, I'd want to try something completely new to me and less restrictive. What little I know of wicca sounds really cool. So I'd choose it. What form of wicca? I don't know. If I cared, or believed enough, I'd certainly do some research.
 
I'd become a methodist if I absolutely had to pick a religion. It was my grandparents religion and I always liked their stance on charity.
 
Considering I'm an Atheist, I'd probably not want to convert. If I had to convert, I would either become a follower of @Brad Watson_Miami or be a Pastafarian and follow the Flying Spaghetti Monster. That or be a deist.
 
Despite my atheism I do feel a connection with the Judeo-Christian tradition and particularly with scholasticism. Though I do generally prefer Protestantism over Catholicism mainly due to the way the Catholic church and Vatican conduct themselves and the whole idea of the pope's and church's worldly authority. So I guess either Judaism or some Lutheran church.
If I actually wanted nothing to change I'd just go with Lutheranism (church of Sweden) simply because it's completely watered down and doesn't really change anything about your life.
 
Ba'hai, a personal form of Buddhism, or a revived varient of Manichaeism because why not.

It'd be different than being an Apatheist/Agnostic Atheist.
 
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Any where I would not have to prostrate towards a "lord" or "god". Because that is demeaning and irrational.
 
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Yeah, this.
I wouldn't want to join one of the Abrahamic religions because of their bigotry.
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Buddhists are just as bad as anybody else. You just don't hear much of it because its all poor south asians killing each other.

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-32929855

If I had to choose Zoroastrianism. I'm no theologian but I have read a lot and made trips to visit the Parsi around Asia as well as the Iranian side. Its a fascinating faith that makes one question why the Abrahamic religions had to come along and complicate things.
 
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Even though I am Jewish, I would say a more mystical and observant form of Judaism. I like all of the scholarly work and meditation. It's something you can study for years and not know enough.
 
I am not religious, but I am also not a stereotypical militant atheist. Religious studies is one of my hobbies, just because I think it's interesting to learn about religion. Right now, I'm doing my own personal Bible studies. Sometimes, I like the idea of being religious. At the moment though, I just want to study and explore.
 
I've flirted with Paganism so it'd probably be that, it tends to embrace the material world rather than reject it which makes it infinity more respectable than any of the others which are desperate not to be here. but It'd have to provide structure and communal places of worship rather than some cretins rambling about the goddess on the net.
 
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