help!!! need to interview person of a different religion (im a christian)?

1. what religion are you

I am one of Jehovah's Witnesses

2. what are the general beliefs of your religion

a. Jehovah God, the Creator, made all life and the Universe

b. His first creation is known now as Jesus Christ, who lived and worked at his Father's right hand in building the Universe.

c. Humans were the first physical beings given the gift of free will. All other earthly life forms are not able to do this, they live by instinct.

d. A spirit son, who we know now of as Satan the Devil, moved to get the first humans to rebel and disobey God's simple command.

e. The rest of the account of the Bible outlines what Jehovah God has done to repair that broken relationship, including providing his Son to die to buy mankind back from the sin of Adam.

f. God will restore the earth to the paradise that Adam lived in, and will bring all the dead billions from history back to have a second chance at life.

3. does your religion believe in various sins or forbidden acts

Acts Chapter 15 states some basic principles that are forbidden. Most people forget that there are also many acts that we are required to do.

(Matthew 22:34-40) 34 After the Pharisees heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, they came together in one group. 35 And one of them, versed in the Law, asked, testing him: 36 “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?” 37 He said to him: “‘You must love Jehovah your God with your whole heart and with your whole soul and with your whole mind.’ 38 This is the greatest and first commandment. 39 The second, like it, is this, ‘You must love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 On these two commandments the whole Law hangs, and the Prophets.”

4. do you attend religious services or ceremonies

We have 5 meetings, which the strongest feature is the training of how to live by God's standards and how to share that information with our neighbors.

5. what are the holidays you celebrate and what do you do for them

The Memorial of Christ's death that he started back in 33CE. That is the only Holy Day that we observe.

6. is your religion tolerant of other religions, lifestyles, questionable professions, and drug use

Tolerant as in allowing them to be practiced by members of our faith? No.

Allowing others who are NOT witnesses to live their lives and not try to get the government to stop them, Yes.

And if a Witness wishes to return to their former lives, (any of the items that you listed), we try to reason with them, but it is up to them. They are responsible before God for their choice.

7. how long have you practiced this religion, have you always followed this religion

I started to study in 1971, and was baptized in 1972. Was an atheist, and an ex-Mormon.

8. how did you come to the realization that this was the correct religion for you

I developed a strong hatred of religions, since the history books clearly showed their dealings with the governments to control the crowds of followers. The hypocrisy, the evil deeds done in "the name of God" turned me totally away from religion. I knew that the Universe was an ordered place, with binding laws controlling the formation and development of it.

The Witnesses show me why the earth was in the mess and what God had been doing to correct this. This stood out to the confusion of other "Christians" who could not even figure out that "God" had a name and a Purpose for the earth. He wasn't a Mystery that No one could explain or tell what he wanted of humans.

The only logical choice was this faith.

The link below will cover much of the information that this place doesn't have room for.

1. I don't have a religion. I'm an atheist.

2. I do not have a religion so the question is not applicable.

3. Again, not applicable

4. Some Christian ceremonies for social reasons.

5. I would say that I celebrate within given holidays but I do not celebrate the holidays themselves. I celebrate at Christmas time because most people seemed to be in the mood for celebration.

6. I don't have a religion. You could say that atheism is tolerant of those things because it has no doctrine on them but it is entirely down to the individual.

7. I was born an atheist. I rejected Christianity on reading the Bible when I was a very young child. I accepted deistic aspects of Christianity but never became a Christian although I have continued to study the religion. I gave up on deism probably around the age of 10. I was an atheist once more and I have been ever since.

8. Yet another question that is not applicable to me. I came to the realisation that no religion was correct for me, for many reasons. There are so many religions, there have been so many religions and there will probably be many more. Odds are, if there were a correct religion, you will not choose the right one. Odds are, if there were a correct religion, it would not be practiced during your lifetime. I rejected Christianity because it is built on inconsistencies, lies, and what I would call an immoral god. I rejected deism because I ran out of reasons to believe. The big one was the design argument, which is proven to be a logically fallacy merely by the idea of evolution, whether you believe it occurred or not. These are only a couple of reasons.

marisa s is wrong to claim to know the beliefs of agnostics. Agnosticism does not refer to belief in any way, it refers to knowledge. An agnostic's theism is completely independent to their gnosticism

1. Agnostic

2. We believe that no one has the answer and that God may or may not exist. God could be anything such as a woman or a pink elephant, because nobody knows.

3. Depending on the culture, we believe in whatever current social norms are prevalent (Translation: you don't need religion to know that it is not right to cheat on your taxes, rape, murder or feel empathy towards others).

4. No, but I have friends that do and I have no problem with that. . .except that I was in the Army and had to deal with the Christian religion and Army Chaplains that prayed during our formations even though there is an establishment clause in our constitution.

5. All Holidays! Holidays such as Easter and Christmas have early roman pagan influence and they were morphed together with Christian religions (probably learning about that in your religion class). I like the Easter Bunny, Santa Clause, and Halloween rocks!

6. Being Agnostic doesn't mean one is an Alaskan Libertarian. I am tolerant of religions that are respectful of others and that truly practice what they preach (which basically means since most people don't practice what they preach. . .then at times I will feel impatient with them).

7. Actually, I think it was when I started to learn that there were other religions that pre-dated christianity that said all of the same things and then of cousre there was learning about the Egyptian God Horace and Mithraism that made me realize that Christianity didn't have the corner on God and basically it was all these other religions from the past rolled into one. So most of my adult life.

8. See answer number 7

Look in the phone book for a synagogue or mosque and call them. Jews and Muslims are more than willing to talk about their religion without trying to convert you. Likewise, you may find other non-Christian religions represented in the area (Buddhism is likely). If you live where there are native American tribes, you might want to contact the local council and ask them if you can talk to anyone involved with a native American religion. Many health food stores (not the chains) can put you into contact with neo-pagan religious people.

Keep in mind that the language you have in your questions is typically "Christian" in nature and you may have to explain (define) the terms you use.

You mentioned that you must interview someone of that religion. If that is not an absolute requirement, then I would suggest visiting a local library and looking through Leo Rosten's Religions of America. He includes a couple non-Christian religions and obtained the material directly from representatives of those religions.

1. Buddhist

2. Attachment is the cause of suffering, mindfulness, meditation, etc.

3. No.

4. I attend a Sangha, which is just a group of Buddhists I know. Nothing more.

5. Every day is a holiday, lol.

6. Tolerant of other religions yes, lifestyles yes, questionable professions yes and no drug use yes and no. For the last two, you will not be condemned for being in the military, but you will not be praised for it, same as drug use.

7. Two years. No, I was a "Christian" before

8. My foot is totally numb... Um... When I was a Christian I found it to be a fun pass time to study other religions, and Buddhism was the only one that made the slightest bit of sense to me because it is all just common sense, stuff that when you read it is a big duh.

Merry meet:

1. I am a practising solitary witch.

2. The general beliefs of my faith is that we see and believe in the duality of everything. God/goddess, light/dark, good/evil, the yin/yang idea.

3. We have a set of 'rule' kind of like the ten commandments but there are thirteen. The basic tenet of the faith is 'an it harm none, do as ye will'.

4. Because I am a solitary practitioner, the only ceremonies I attend are the rituals I perform at home.

5. We celebrate the Sabbats and the Esbats which happen at the solstices, equinoxes and the same time frame of the months in between those events.

6. Our faith is very tolerant and accepting of people from all walks of life. I don't have to walk your journey as you don't have to walk mine, therefore we don't need to agree or believe in the same things to share our paths from time to time.

7. I have been practising it for seven years now.

8. I have always believed what my faith teaches, but I didn't have the label attached to me until seven years ago. I was discussing faith and my lack of a definition for what I believed with some friends and they opened my eyes to the craft. After much research I was able to determine that it indeed is the right path for me.

Blessed Be. I hope I helped a little. )O(

1. Nizari Ismailis

2. Nothing that we know in this world can be proved, nor proved false, but for some reason unbeknownst to humans, we are allowed to have faith, be atheists, be whatever we want. We can wage war, wage peace, make enemies, make friends. We choose to faith because we can, we choose to follow our one god not because we must believe, but because we can. We are also open to the possibility we might be wrong in our faith, and that is okay.

3. We do not allow intolerance, injustice, rejection of freedom, and do not worship idols or people, we follow the one and only truth of this world, there is not truth.

4. We can, but it is not necessary to have our faith.

5. No Holidays other than a month of fasting is required.

6. Yes, we do not allow people to disrespect any other religion, unless they are destructive to society and its people.

7. Not always, I converted from Catholicism about a month and a half ago.

8. I believed that when Christianty attacked my family, I had to get out. The Nizari Ismailis were the only religion I could find that actually accepted the possibility there might be no God, but still worshipped one simply because they can, it is what they believed.

1. I'm a hindu

2. Hindus do not all believe everything of hindisnm. For example, not all may believe in Reincarnation, but most do. Also moksha is the most important thing which is perfect understanding. One can receive moksha by being a brahmin (priest) (you can't automatically be a brahmin, you have to be born one or be reincarnated to one. Another belief is that we don not believing in killing animals especially cows (we don't eat meat)- cows are sacred

3. Yes we do

4. Yes

5 Holidays: (Navratri)-last 9 days, we dance (Diwali)-we do fireworks, light candles, and get presents; sort of like christmas (Indian New Year)-in november (Hori)- we get messy with colors- powdery color (Utran)- we fly kites

6.Idk what ur asking but we don't believe in doing drugs (although some people do them anyway)

all my life

8.You have to be born a Hindu to be a Hindu

Hope this is enough!!

I consider myself a Christian, but I know many Christians don't so I'll answer your questions anyway.

1. I'm a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, aka Mormon

2. We believe that God is our Father in Heaven, and Jesus is his only begotten son who suffered and died to save us from our sins. We must repent, be baptised and confirmed, and follow him our whole lives in order to return to live with our Father in Heaven and our families for eternity. We believe that the Book of Mormon (ancient scriptures of the early inhabitants of the Americas) is scripture alongside the Bible, and we believe that God still calls prophets today.

3. Yes, in our faith we believe in the Word of Wisdom, which is a revelation given through the Prophet Joseph Smith in 1833 and forbids us from drinking tea, coffee or alcohol, or from smoking or taking illegal drugs. We also believe that sex outside marriage is a sin, and we generally follow the ten commandments.

4. I attend Church every Sunday, and try to attend the Temple every month where I go to a ceremony called the Endowment which involves making special covenants with God.

5. As well as Christmas, Easter, etc, we also have our Annual Conference on or around 6th April, the day the Church was founded (which we also believe to be Christ's birthday).

6. Our religion is tolerant of other faiths. Our eleventh (of 12) article of faith says "We claim the privilege of worshipping Almighty God according to the dictates of our own conscience, and allow all men the same privilege, let them worship how, where, or what they may." However, we do not accept drug use, and we believe that since any sex outside marriage is sinful, and marriage is between a man and a women, gay sex is a sin.

7. I have practiced my religion for almost 20 years, since I converted in my twenties.

8. Having become a Christian I went to several churches because I just did not "feel" the presence of God or experience the Holy Spirit anywhere. I fought against this church for a long time, but then I read the Book of Mormon and had a very powerful religious experience which told me it is true. I have had that confirmed to me many times since then.

Feel free to email me if you have any questions. More information is at www.mormon.org.

1) I belong to no religion, I am a disciple and servant of the Christ Jesus.

2) As a disciple and servant of the Christ Jesus, I believe in and do only as the words He spoke tell me.

3) Jesus spoke 77 commandments of the things I must do,

4) The church that the Christ Jesus built for our Father without hands, is within me and all around me, and I seek the words (the kingdom) he spoke, daily.

5) I celebrate only the memorial Jesus gave to Mary and the LORD's Day.

6) I Judge not.

7) Since I was created by my Father and made by my Mother and became one with my body.

8) Our Father sent me.