What is the best religion?

Axiomatically every religion considers themselves the best religion since they hold they're the possess of truth while every other religion would be either be false or a water-downed version of the truth. Unfortunately because of the nature of religion there's no way to resolve the debate outside of any particular religion since no religion holds the only truly universal invariant resolver, meaning reason, as a standard to judge the truth of the totality of its claims.

If you mean best from a secular position than in essence you're asking us to judge religion against a set of standards that may be denied as legitimate by the religion. However if I was to judge religion from that perspective I would judge each religion on the degree that it allowed the free exercise of the use of reason. Accordingly I would judge Christianity, Judaism and Buddhism, as practiced in the western world, as being the best religions since they allow for the greatest use of reason by its individual believers. Buddhism by its internal nature seems the most organically genuinely tolerant; however, this may be my experience within the western world and may not reflect the nature of Buddhism in nations that it has political power. Historically, I would need to say Christianity was the best religion because by accident it allowed for the survival of Greek philosophical notions within it that later bloomed during the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and the Industrial revolution.

I believe that the Baha'i faith is the religion we should follow.

It is not the 'best' because all religions are different. The thing about religion is that they are brought about at a certain time. The religion is ok for that time but when things become too advanced for that time a new religion is created. It is like in school, the first year you learn how to spell your name (that is like one religion) then you move on and learn how to build sentences, that is a step up from what you learned a year ago but what you learned a year ago isn't wrong, you just have the capacity to take in more.

I believe in the Baha'i faith because this is the most recent and most modern religion we have now. It also promotes world peace, unity for all and that religion and science must agree.

E.g. there are no stories in this religion that someone came back to life and I don't believe Jesus did, I think that when Jesus died his followers were frightened and many went into hiding. A brave Christian woman names Mary Magdalene asked why. She said they should teach this religion and in that way Jesus Christ came back to life, not his physical form but by his teachings.

We also believe in equality, the same rights for men and women, women shouldn't need to cover their hair and indeed in the Quran in doesn't say they must. Women started that because they lived in hot countries and it stopped the top of their heads burning, when the Quran said 'dress modestly' it didn't mean completely cover up.

Also, we believe in no Priest or Mullahs because we believe that we can talk and pray to God ourselves, we don't need someone translating our book for us, if we really love the religion we must be determined enough to read the book ourselves.

One universal language is another aim, so people from all over the world can sit and have a discussion without it ending in confusion and misunderstanding. We should keep our native tongue but everyone should know one other language.

Baha'i people must show detachment. The world is material, we believe in nourishing our souls, this doesn't mean giving everything up it just means knowing that all this money we have cannot be taken with us.

On that subject lets look at 'heaven' and 'hell', in our religion we believe that 'heaven' is being close to God and hell is being far away. If you are far away from God then you will feel unfulfilled and sad.

So how come there is pain and suffering??

This is a question I get asked often, the thing is that how would we know what day was if we couldn't see night? How would we be able to compare if there was nothing to compare too? There has to be evil, pain and suffering for us to know happiness, comfort and goodness.

Why don't i understand God?

Because God created us we don't have the capacity to understand him. The created thing cannot understand the creator. e.g. e created guitars, guitars would never be able to understand us because they don't have the capacity to. We will never understand God because we don;t have the capacity to.

I hope you have enough patience to read all this!!

All religions in the world are following two core principles. 1. A God to worship. 2.Virtues way of life.

With out having the faith in God we could not lead a virtues way of life. Virtues way of life could be classified in to three. 1.Duty 2.Morality 3.Charity.

Duty means using the knowledge and physical strength engage in earning and living.

Morality means not to inflict pain to the self/ others in the present or future.

The problems of many religions is identifying the God correctly and also proper easy path to realize the God.

Meditation & introspection alone will help in realizing god.

To edit: "A religion that is pure and stainless according to the Father God is this: to give care to orphans and widows and widowers who are suffering, and thereby to cleanse oneself daily as self is stained by the world daily; the politics of religion is such a filthy business.

The best example of a religion is one in which the members are able to discern notion from concept.

There is nothing as the best religion. Just as there is nothing like the "prettiest" woman. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

In terms of absolute badassery, the Norse religion definitely comes out on top.

Thor is just that bloody awesome and cool.

Bhuddism, although some people say that is more a set of beliefs rather than a religion. Bhuddism advocates personal responsibility and is by it's nature, a calming and relaxing belief. It is not dictotorial like most of the religions that I know and it doesn't segragate people because of what they do or don't do. How far people go into the bhuddism journey is up to them.

Hello,

I will expand on Doctor P's great answer : "all paths lead to god".

The best religion is a matter of individual opinion. We are all different, mentally and spiritually. So while one path to god is the best for you, it may not be for me.

The path towards god, first and foremost is an individual path.

I have found up to now, that no particular religion is for me. I have spent alot of time trying to find myself, to know myself and both my mental and spiritual characteristics. Now, what I do is, I pick the great points from all religions and even science that lead me to union with my source/god.

So if I may say, the first step is to know ones self. Then the best way for union with god becomes apparent. There is no point asking others what the best religion is. An interesting point is that, buddha was not a buddhist, jesus not a christian and god itself has no religion. They just found the best way for their own self to become completely content (with god, or life) and simply invited others to try their path.

No one knows whats best for you, except for you my friend.

All the best :-)

There are good points in every religion

but choosing what's the best would be a bias

mostly (maybe) will just type their own religion

Buddhism, a tradition of personal spiritual development, including meditation, philosophy and ethics.