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What's more interesting to you - learning about different faiths, or learning about why people choose those faiths?
For me, it's decidedly the latter. I'm not at all interested in the doctrines of different religions, but the reasons that people choose one set of beliefs over another are interesting to me.
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That's a little hard to choose from. I'd say learn about the faith first, then ask why people believe.
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Studying how the things people believe in are thought of, the morals they have yet.
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When explaining why they chose a particular religion, people will quite inevitably mention its tenets, or at least some of them - and if they don't, you may go there yourself. It's certainly deeper and more interesting to ask why.
It is hard to decide. They both intrest me greatly and one inevitably leads to the other.
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I had to grab the 1/4 point because, to me, the two are inextricably intertwined. What a faith teaches explains its appeal and its appeal informs a person of what it teaches. Studying either one without the other gives an incomplete picture...knowing the what without the why or the why without the what doesn't really enable you to engage people in conversation and just doesn't give enough knowledge, at least for me.
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Edit by moderator: edited out quotation of removed post.
I'm most interested in learning why people choose different doctrines and why they choose to follow them, even after their moral and logical compass has gone into frenzied overload.
Post edited at 7:18 am on Nov. 19, 2008 by DefaultTo0
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