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Do you know anyone who is dual faith? (lemm.ee)

submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I have a soft spot for the topic of people who are dual faith. It's weird, you know. If you're an atheist, you get a thumbs up from me. If you're religious with one faith, you get a raised eyebrow from me. And if you are dual faith, you get two thumbs up from me. It just feels like you're more open-minded if you are more than one faith.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

how does that work? i can understand multi-faith like baha'ism that accepts other gods are just the representations of the real one or maybe islam which considers christianism and judaism are the "old versions" of it, but dual faith?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_syncretism

Basically, people combine religions way more than they pretend to. Think about a holiday like Christmas/Yule. It's allegedly a Christian holiday, but somehow there are elves, reindeer, evergreen trees, and gift giving involved.

Throughout history, religious conversion wasn't really about personal belief. There have been political conversions where a leader has "converted" for an alliance or marriage, and therefore a whole kingdom is allegedly a new religion, even though the people are still doing what they always have.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianization_of_Kievan_Rus'

There have been crusades, Muslim conquests, and colonization forcing conversion at the end of a sword. People kept practicing their existing religions during all of these.

Eventually, public and private religions, religions of neighboring people, etc. blur together.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folk_Catholicism

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 day ago

Yes. Alright, suppose you were raised Shinto. Shinto doctrine has a limited range of what they claim and doesn't call dibs on a whole lot regarding what to make an origin about. Then suppose you went to Australia and thought "I like the Dreamtime beliefs, I want to see if I believe in it". Supposing the matters discussed by Australian mythology doesn't intersect with the matters discussed in Shintoism, you can be both. It wouldn't be like Judaism and Hinduism where, in one, there are declarations of being one god and one son of god, while in the other, there's a whole ecosystem of gods and avatars.