I don't really like this time of the year. All of my dad's family is muslim (most of my dads family is in europe, except a brother), and all of my moms family is christian catholic(who are also mostly in europe). Yippie. Mixed breed.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My dad is always asking me to be muslim. I don't know how to choose

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What do you guys think?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

P.S...we're all from the same country

Choose neither if you don't want to. Religion is a sacred decision. Choose the one that appeals to you.

That sounds rough x.X Choose whatever you feel is right, even if its neither:D

be jewish or mormon

Chose not to talk about religion for a while. It's a banned topic right now. Other than that I'd say post-theist or agnostic all the way. Keeps them slightly in suspense. If you have to choose between them (which you don't) then I'd probably say Muslim, for no other reason than I like the Koran better than the Bible, and I like arabic more than hebrew. On the negative side you don't get to drink or take any intoxicants.

Read the Bible than the Koran and choose from there. That is, if you have to choose one.

Read the Bible than the Qur'an and choose from there. That is, if you have to choose one.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reading the bible will take you a bumper long time. Most christians haven't read the whole bible. I do old testament studies for a level and we don't need to know more than about 1/10th of it (infact, probably much less)

be jewish or mormon

 

 

 

If you have nothing useful or good to add, dont post.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ignore your dad and do what you think is right. :shock:

I'll tell you my very similar 'dilemma'.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Actually, not even most of my friends knew until about highschool, but my mother is a protestant christian and my father is a muslim.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Awkward? :) No.. My father still drinks alcohol and curses and does everything else you're not supposed to do, he's even eaten pork on a few occassions.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

IMO there's nothing to 'choose' from, I just choose to be neither religion since they both have flaws. I was baptised in a church but that doesn't make it any different either.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My dad is always asking me to be muslim. I don't know how to choose

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You don't "have" to choose, just because your father asks you. Learn something from every religion.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My father never pressured me into anything, though his family is from a very-loosely islamic area in Europe (near Montenegro) which converted hundreds of years ago due to military and other pressure, so while they wield their religion with pride they don't really even know much about it. To be honest, their physical characteristics wouldn't tell they're muslims either, but they are.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Or if you want to prank your parents, turn to Hare Krishna. It will be fun to see the reaction, preferably on April 1st. They'll learn not to take everything so seriously.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Read the Bible than the Qur'an and choose from there. That is, if you have to choose one.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reading the bible will take you a bumper long time. Most christians haven't read the whole bible. I do old testament studies for a level and we don't need to know more than about 1/10th of it (infact, probably much less)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I read it. You get alot better understanding for it when you read the whole thing. But I've also read the Koran, and it's up to you. Basically, Islam is pretty much a fundamentalist religion, whereas Christianity isn't really.

Well, religion topics aren't exactly allowed right now. Your title indicates this is about Christmas awkwardness, so that is what I am going to talk about :P .

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The situation in my family is a little odd. My dad and mom are married. My dad's brother met my mom's sister at my parents wedding, and then they married. They just divorced not to long ago. So when I went over to my grandparents house on my dad's side, my immediate family, including my mom, were all there. My dad's brother was there too. It actually wasn't all that bad, but there were times we were all just sitting there with nothing to say. You know, awkward silences. Which is even more awkward because there were twelve people there.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Awkward? :) No.. My father still drinks alcohol and curses and does everything else you're not supposed to do, he's even eaten pork on a few occassions.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My dad eats pork on a daily basis :o . Hes not religous at all

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

@indyfan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

:D Thats great

be agnostic

Too me, this doesn't class as religious discussion as it seems to be more about family matters and how to please parents rather than a religious debate. If I was in that dilema, I'd need help as well, sorry I can't give any advice better than this - don't go to one religion unless the other parent is cool with that. Pleasing one parent isn't worth destroying a family/ creating a gap between your parents.

I think that for a lot of people, religion can be a cultural thing as well as a merely spiritual thing. So I can see how your dad would be sad that his Muslim tradition might be "dying out" within the family. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't just go with what you believe, or what you just kind of self-identify. Do you feel Muslim? Do you feel Catholic? Then go with it :D Do you not feel either? Do you not know enough about each religion to really say? Try going to services and praying with members of each religion - immerse yourself in their cultures a bit - and then see how you feel :D

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I am completely atheist, but I also just "feel" very Jewish, having been raised in a Jewish family, and I still go to weekly Shabbat services and celebrate holidays. Do what feels right to you :D

I don't think Christmas is about religion any more. It's more about bringing families together. That's what I love about Christmas.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thank God I'm an atheist!

 

 

 

Thank God I'm an atheist!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sorry for the spam, but...

 

 

 

 

Thank God I'm an atheist!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sorry for the spam, but...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I hate people who jumped on the bandwagon :lol:

 

 

 

 

Thank God I'm an atheist!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sorry for the spam, but...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

:lol:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I just got it after BlueLancer's reply

I don't think Christmas is about religion any more. It's more about bringing families together. That's what I love about Christmas.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Christmas is a time to thank Jesus for dying while saving Santa Clause.

 

 

 

 

 

Read the Bible than the Qur'an and choose from there. That is, if you have to choose one.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reading the bible will take you a bumper long time. Most christians haven't read the whole bible. I do old testament studies for a level and we don't need to know more than about 1/10th of it (infact, probably much less)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I read it. You get alot better understanding for it when you read the whole thing. But I've also read the Koran, and it's up to you. Basically, Islam is pretty much a fundamentalist religion, whereas Christianity isn't really.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Really? I found the bible ten times more abhorrent that the koran, and just as extreme. God is a complete [illegitimate child] in the Bible, the old testemant especialy, but some of the things Jesus says in the new testament are equaly scary. In the Koran you don't get as many specific stories of the length found in the bible, it's broken up into smaller blocks that don't follow the story from one part to the other. It's also shorter as a whole. I've read the Koran and the majority of the bible, even though you don't need to know it. It's easy to see why the Islamic nations refounded science and the intellectual persuits of the greeks and romans, whislt the christians just kept invading them. Most of the greek texts used in the middle ages were translated from greek into arabic then into latin. So I think that statment is totaly unfounded to be honest. At best they are both equal in thier extremeism.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

To avoid this becoming a religious debate, I rember when reading the Koran being far more able to accpet the key tenents than in the bible, but which ever religion you choose, to understand it you will have to study it, which takes an almost infinite time.

My family isn't religious (I think thats right...) so I myself am not.

i had christmas awkwardness this year aswell (not based on religion, but more demographics).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

New years eve is our christmas thing, and we do it at my grandmas house, which is like a street away from our house. I got there, expecting it to be ok (never really appeals to me too much) but when i got there, as always there was no one for me to talk to (no one my own age) so i got really bored, walked home and listened to heavy metal. :twisted: much more fun.

be jewish or mormon

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You really are an idiot aren't you?

 

 

Read the Bible than the Qur'an and choose from there. That is, if you have to choose one.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reading the bible will take you a bumper long time. Most christians haven't read the whole bible. I do old testament studies for a level and we don't need to know more than about 1/10th of it (infact, probably much less)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I read it. You get alot better understanding for it when you read the whole thing. But I've also read the Koran, and it's up to you. Basically, Islam is pretty much a fundamentalist religion, whereas Christianity isn't really.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Just a note - I don't think it's really possible to call one religion inherently more fundamentalist than the other, just by reading their religious texts; different denominations or sects may be more fundamentalist in their INTERPRETATION of these texts, however. :D