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I am a christan Apostolic! We believe in the lord jesus christ or god in general (Since Jesus and god are the same person). We dress a certain way or dress modest and we like differ from the world.

Sorry if I go on a tangent I'm just excited I get to talk about my religious beliefs cause normally ppl freak out when I do

I'm a member of the Church of Latter-Day Saints (LDS/Mormon for short)! :] In my religion we believe pretty much what all Christians, Jews, Catholics, Evangelists, Baptists, Muslims, etc. believe that there's one god (In this thing we have called the 13 commandments it states this as well). We are told to respect others' religious beliefs and love thy neighbor! We celebrate Christmas, Easter, Mother's Day (We get a whole lesson on its importance), and Father's Day (We get a whole lesson on its importance)! We get this thing called general conferences and we have lots of temples around the world, but in order to fully get into one you need a temple recommend. It's most common for children at the age of eight to be baptised and when babies are born they get blessings. We believe that there are three places you can go into heaven as well. We believe God, Christ, and the Holy Ghost are different people. We have these things called missions you go on when you are like 18 where you get to go around the world which is really cool (If you are above 18 then you can still get a mission, but you have to ask your bishop). We have four main books we use which are the Book of Mormon, Pearl of Great Price, the Holy Bible (Kings James version), and Doctrine and Covenants. We have bishops who are similar to popes in a way they are what run churches branches from the main one. We have this thing called Girls camp which is made for Young Women which is really fun and we also have camping trips, ski trips, since I'm in the Youth! We have a choir which is really cool that you can join. Oh, we also have this thing called baptism for the dead which is really cool (Pretty much you can baptize dead relatives so that they can get into heaven)!

Vaguely Christianoid. Here is my best religion story (TW alcohol, violence, Andrew Lloyd Weber):

My Mom was still churchy when I was little. I did some Sunday school and stuff, which I found very annoying because they had us do stuff like copy Bible verses onto fake lined parchment paper, in pencil. I found this both aesthetically and historically annoying, because I was That Kid. Anyway, Mom liked us to know about God and stuff, but she'd seen some real nastiness in her life and was absolutely opposed to using religion to frighten small children. So I somehow got to be quite old without learning the story of the Crucifixion. Easter was the day that Mom made Dad hide eggs in the backyard and then made me look for them, something neither Dad nor I enjoyed. Since the golf course was closed for the holiday, Dad would often be mildly hammered by egg hunting time, forget where at least one egg was, and no one would find it until the first lawn mowing of spring, when it went off like a bomb.

One year, a road company of Jesus Christ Superstar came to town, which was a huge deal because back then we'd be lucky to get, like, Victor Borge. Somehow Mom and my big sister and I ended up going. I had never seen a real play before, so I was excited. We had nosebleed seats but it was still great. Except. I had absolutely no idea that they were going to do that to poor Jesus.

Mom and Kim: THAT WAS GREAT!

Me: O_O Holy bleeping bleeeeeeeep.

im a practicing hellenic (greek gods/godesses), but i grew up with a catholic mom and ex-catholic dad so that was super interesting and adding the bible made me super interested in the actual facts/history

i actually study world religions for fun, im really into ethics, morality, labels, (mis)translations, just the logistics and historical contexts of stuff

i know alot about Islam, Judaism, and Christianity (all branches) because i've written essays about the integration of abrahamic religions

i also know alot about the history of religion in culture and the influences of growing up religious/practicing

I'm Catholic... I was only baptized and confirmed a couple years ago though, and I'm still trying my best to learn the faith.

My parents also belong to abrahamic religions, but they're stereotypical alt-rights and my dad's a creationalist; it makes me really sad. Unfortunately they tried to raise me that way too and it took me a long time to get over the internalized nonsense that they pounded into me

I've got no problem with lgbtq+ and am in fact part of the community, here's something that explains my reason pretty well