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Different religions and sects and belief systems:

Abrahamic religions
A group of monotheistic traditions sometimes grouped with one another for comparative purposes, because all refer to a patriarch named Abraham.

Bábísm
Bahá'í
Bahá'í Faith
Orthodox Bahá'í Faith
Islam
Kharijites
Nation of Islam
Shiite
Alawites
Ismailis
Jafari
Zaiddiyah
Ghulat including
Alevi / Bektashi
Ahl-e Haqq
Yazidi
Druze
Ahmadi
Sunni
Berailvi
Deobandi
Hanafi
Hanbali
Maliki
Mu'tazili
Shafi'i
Wahhabi
Sufism
Naqshbandi
Bektashi
Chishti
Mevlevi
Zikri
Judaism (see also: Jew; Hebrews)
Contemporary divisions
Karaite Judaism
Rabbinic Judaism
Orthodox Judaism
Haredi Judaism
Hassidic Judaism
Modern Orthodox Judaism
Reform Judaism
Conservative Judaism (Masorti)
Reconstructionist Judaism (arguably not a religion)
Humanistic Judaism (arguably not a religion)
Historical Sects
Hasmoneans
Essenes
Pharisees
Sadducees
Zealots
Sicarii
sects that believed Jesus was a prophet
Ebionites
Elkasites
Nazarenes
Crypto-Jews
Marranos
Conversos
Christianity (see List of Christian denominations)
Eastern Orthodoxy
Roman Catholicism
Oriental Orthodoxy (Monophysitism)
Nestorianism
Protestantism
Anabaptists
Anglicans
Baptists
Lutherans
Methodists
Pentecostals
Reformed
Calvinism
Presbyterian
Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)
Unitarians
Waldensians
Latter-day Saints
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Community of Christ
Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
Seventh-day Adventist
Jehovah's Witnesses
Messianic Judaism (not actually Judaism but rather Jewish-rite Christianity)
Samaritans
Mandaeanists
Rastafarians
Black Hebrews
Hebrew Christians
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Dharmic religions
Religions with a concept of Dharma, also major religions of historical India

Hinduism (also Contemporary Hindu movements)
Agama Hindu Dharma (Javanese Hinduism)
Shaivism
Shaktism
Smartism
Vaishnavism
Gaudiya Vaishnavism
ISKCON (Hare Krishna)
Sri Krishna Chaitanya Mission
Six major schools and movements of Hindu philosophy
Samkhya
Nyaya
Vaisheshika
Purva mimamsa
Vedanta (Uttar Mimamsa)
Advaita Vedanta
Integral Yoga
Yoga
Ashtanga Yoga
Hatha yoga
Siddha Yoga
Tantric Yoga
Ayyavazhi
Shramana Religions
Buddhism (Schools of Buddhism)
Mahayana
Nikaya schools (which have historically been called Hinayana in the West)
Theravada
Vajrayana (Tantric Buddhism)
Jainism
Digambara
Shvetambara
Panth Religions
Sikhism
Kabir Panth
Dadu Panth

Other revealed religions
Believers in one God, also called classical monotheism, who follow an Indo-European culture of belief, philosophy and angelology.

Zoroastrianism
Magus (Three Wise Men)
Gnosticism
Basilidians
Bogomils
Borborites
Cainites
Carpocratians
Cathars
Marcionism (not entirely Gnostic)
Ophites
Valentinians (Valentinius)
Hinduism (Vaishnavism)

Indigenous religions
The orally transmitted canon of indigenous peoples, many involving some variant of animism and many defunct

African religions
Akamba mythology
Akan mythology
Ashanti mythology
Bushongo mythology
Bwiti
Dahomey mythology
Dinka mythology
Efik mythology
Egyptian mythology
Ibo mythology
Isoko mythology
Khoikhoi mythology
Lotuko mythology
Lugbara mythology
Pygmy mythology
Tumbuka mythology
Yoruba mythology
Zulu mythology
African religions in the New World
Kumina
Obeah
Santería (Lukumi)
Vodou
Candomblé
Macumba
Umbanda and Quimbanda
Xango
European religions
Anglo-Saxon mythology
Basque mythology
Druidry (Celtic Religion)
Finnish mythology
Germanic paganism
Norse mythology
Greek religion
Greek mythology
Mystery religions
Eleusinian Mysteries
Mithraism
Pythagoreanism
Roman religion
Roman mythology
Slavic mythology
Asian religions
Babylonian and Assyrian religion
Babylonian mythology
Chaldean mythology
Sumerian mythology
Bön (Indigenous Tibetan belief)
Chinese mythology
Shinto
Oomoto
Tengrism (Indigenous Mongol, Tartar & Kazakh belief)
Yezidis (Modified indigenous Kurdish belief)
Native American religions
Abenaki mythology
Aztec mythology
Blackfoot mythology
Chippewa mythology
Creek mythology
Crow mythology
Guarani mythology
Haida mythology
Ho-Chunk mythology
Huron mythology
Inuit mythology
Iroquois mythology
Kwakiutl mythology
Lakota mythology
Lenape mythology
Navaho mythology
Nootka mythology
Pawnee mythology
Salish mythology
Selk'nam religion
Seneca mythology
Tsimshian mythology
Ute mythology
Zuni mythology
Oceanic religions
Australian Aboriginal mythology
Balinese mythology
Maori mythology
Modekngei (Republic of Palau)
Nauruan indigenous religion
Polynesian mythology

Neopagan or revival religions
Modern religions seeking to recreate indigenous, usually pre-Christian, beliefs and practices

Church of All Worlds
Dievturiba
Germanic Neopaganism also called Ásatrú or Odinism
Hellenic polytheism (modern revivalist forms)
Judeo-Paganism
Maausk
Neo-druidism
Summum
Taarausk
Wicca
Alexandrian Wicca
Dianic Wicca (Feminist Wicca)
Gardnerian Wicca
Faery Wicca
Feri Tradition

Non-revealed religions
Philosophies not transmitted by a divine prophet

Carvaka
Confucianism
Deism
Fellowship of Reason
Spiritual Humanism
Mohism
Taoism

Left-Hand Path religions
Faiths teaching that the ultimate goal is separating consciousness from the universe, rather than being absorbed by it

Dragon Rouge
Satanism
LaVeyan Satanism
Church of Satan
Order of Nine Angles
Setianism also spelled Sethianism
Temple of Set
The Storm
Quimbanda

Syncretic religions
Faiths created from blending earlier religions or that consider all or some religions to be essentially the same

Arès Pilgrim Movement
Cao Dai
Falun Dafa (Falun Gong)
Huna
Konkokyo
Law of One
Manichaeism
Unitarian Universalism
Universal Life Church
Tenrikyo
Theosophy
Seicho-No-Ie

Entheogen religions
Religions based around divinely inspiring substances

Ayahuasca-based beliefs
Church of the Universe (marijuana sacrament)
Peyotism
THC Ministry

New religious movements
See List of new religious movements for a list based on other sources

See hereunder for religions founded since 1850 with small followings

Monotheistic NRMs

Direct Worship of the Actual God
Indigenous NRM's

Burkhanism
Cargo cults
Ghost Dance
Native American Church
African Diaspora / Latin American NRM's

Rastafari movement
Umbanda
Candomble
Kardecist Spiritism
Hindu-oriented NRM's

Sai Baba/Sathya Sai Organisation
Hare Krishna
Transcendental Meditation
Sant Mat
Swaminarayan
Vedanta Society
Osho/Rajneeshism
Meher Baba (actually a Zoroastrian)
Oneness University
Aum Shinrikyo (Aleph)
Eckankar
NRM's with Islamic Roots

Subud
Ahmadi
Dances of Universal Peace
Nation of Islam (Black Muslims)
Christian-oriented NRM's

Unification Church
Jesus People
Children of God
People's Temple
Pentecostalism
Holiness movement
Iglesia ni Cristo
Buddhist-oriented NRM's

Soka Gakkai
Won Buddhism
Hoa Hao
Friends of the Western Buddhist Order
Chinese-oriented NRM's

Way of Former Heaven sects, including
I-Kuan Tao ("Way of Unity"),
T'ung-shan She ("Society of Goodness"),
Tien-te Sheng-chiao ("Sacred Religion of Celestial Virtue"),
Daoyuan ("Sanctuary of the Tao"),
Tz'u-hui Tang ("Compassion Society").
Falun Gong ("Dharma Wheel Work," a qigong meditation group)
Japanese-oriented NRM's

Tenrikyo
Seicho no Ie
Johrei (Johrei Movement - Sekai Kyusei Kyo Izunome Kyodan)
Reiki
Oomoto
Soka Gakkai
Aum Shinrikyo (Aleph)
Korean-oriented NRM's

Chondogyo
Jeung San Do
Juche (The personality cult of North Korean leaders)
Unification Church
Vietnamese-oriented NRM's

Caodaism
Hoa Hao
Malaysian-Oriented NRM's

Sky Kingdom
Western Magical / Esoteric Groups

Kardecist Spiritism
Theosophy
Agni Yoga
Anthroposophy
Arcane School
Association for Research and Enlightenment
Church Universal and Triumphant
Golden Dawn
Gurdjieff Work
AMORC
Spiritualism
Eckankar
Thelema
Argenteum Astrum
Fraternitas Saturni
Ordo Templi Orientis
Typhonian Ordo Templi Orientis
Process Church of the Final Judgement
Order of the Solar Temple
White Supremacist Religions

Church of Jesus Christ Christian
World Church of the Creator (Creativity Movement)
Church of the American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan [1]
Black Supremacist Religions

Nuwaubianism
Alien-based religions

The Aetherius Society [2]
Raelism
Scientology
Church of Scientology
Free Zone
Urantia, Book of
Universe people
Other NRM's

Antoinism
Breatharianism (Air cult)
Brianism
Elan Vital
Faithists of Kosmon
Virus, The Church of
Tony Samara



Discordianism
Church of the SubGenius (The cult of Bob Dobbs)
Church of Jesus Christ Elvis

Forms of religion or alternative beliefs
Agnosticism
Animism
Atheism
Ditheism (Dualism)
Henotheism
Monolatrism
Humanism
Secular Humanism
Kathenotheism
Maltheism
Monism
Monotheism
Panentheism
Pantheism
Cosmotheism
Polytheism
Shamanism
Suitheism

Nonsectarian and trans-sectarian religious movements and practices

Esotericism
Alchemy
Anthroposophy
Esoteric Christianity
Freemasonry
Gnosticism
Kabbalah
Occultism
Rosicrucian
Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis
Confraternity of the Rose Cross
Rosicrucian Fellowship
Surat Shabda Yoga

Mysticism
Christian mysticism
Gnosticism
Hindu mysticism
Tantra
Ananda Marga Tantra-Yoga
Yoga
Bhakti
Vedanta
Kabbalah (also part of Judaism)
Kabbalah Centre
Martinism
Merkabah (also part of Judaism)
Meditation
Spirituality
Sufism
Theosophy

Magic (religion)
Astrology
Divination
Prophecy
Exorcism
Faith healing
Feng Shui
Hoodoo (Rootwork)
New Orleans Voodoo
Magick
Chaos magick
Enochian Magic
Grimoire magick
Goetic magick
Miracles
Pow-wow
Seid (shamanic magic)
Vaastu Shastra (Hinduism)
Witchcraft

Ritualism
Prayer
Sacrifice
Animal sacrifice
Human sacrifice

Organizations promoting Ecumenism
Dances of Universal Peace
Inter-religious Organisations


In light of this, it is truly amazing that you have zeroed in on the One True Religion.  

Love Massive Attack!!

Omg, I'm laughing so hard I'm crying! Wow. Religious leaders have better rackets going than any politician or gangsta evuh!    These videos are awesome.

True nature of things? Sounds rather absolute.....

I don't understand why. You need some kind of support system. Even just people to talk to! But I wish you the best. Miss ya on facebook! 

I second that!! ^

 

Thank you so much for getting all of this together! You addressed just about every single point that I struggle with. I will definitely read through this a few more times and hopefully be on the other side of trying soon! 

Matt,

I am so sorry for what you are going through. It is one of the most horrible things you could have to deal with. The worst is the feeling that you may be separated from your daughter. As I was reading this thread, I got a huge hard knot in my gut. It makes me crazy that things like this happen.

I know no one can tell you what to do, but I would like to offer some advice. In the state of Oregon, unless laws have changed drastically in the last few years, it is very difficult for a mother to be denied custody of her children. Basically, you would need proof of her doing drugs and having open sex right in front of the kids. It sounds out there, but I lived there for many years and had friends that had the same issues.

Your wife is being very selfish right now. She is not showing you the love or respect you deserve but enough of that. That's something you have to decide. As hopeless as it sounds, you may have to dig in your heels and stay in the States if you want to be with your daughter unless your wife is willing to give up custody. The bond between you and your daughter will last forever, but partners come and go. That may sound calloused, but it is my opinion.

It is my sincere hope that no matter what happens with you and your wife, you can both still be there for Lilah.

My friend projected a while back and said he was just flying around the neighborhood, checking things out, and he saw, walking on a slant roof, an astral dog. He said the dog looked at him and kind of "smiled". Pretty cool.

Wonderful point of view - thank you! Nice to meet you 

Hi tickleberries! Sounds like we have similar backgrounds. Congratulations on finding your way towards new beginnings 

Always good to hear words of wisdom, so post away    Nice to meet you!

Hello wabisabi, very nice to meet you 

Hello Kestrel 

Hello Laroshx 

So what happened? How did it go down? Can't leave it at "I'm in"!! Sheesh!

Glad you're here! I'm interested to hear more 

GodsProxy,

I spent most of my life believing in hell. People burning because they didn't believe what they should have. Nearly two years ago, I was finally freed of that belief system. I was shown things and had personal experiences that made me see that there was no satan to attack, no god to judge, no hell to fear. I am grateful beyond measure to no longer live with that warped view of life after death (or as I like to call it, westing) .

Even in this day and age there are millions of people who live in fear, become members of religious organizations, tithe money they cannot afford to give away, live with blinders on and otherwise sabotage their own happiness because they are trying desperately to avoid hell. And there are countless "leaders" laughing all the way to the bank.

I don't want to think this way about you, someone I don't even know, but it sounds to me like you have found a topic that you know most people have a little understanding of and you're trying to spin it to make it a little different, then you're going to try to make a profit off of it. Why do you want to make people live in fear? That's incredibly sad.

You KNOW there is a hell. Fine. I hope you can avoid it. I KNOW there is NOT a hell. I was given a freedom in my spirit and nobody can tell me any differently.
I have nothing against religions if their goal is enlightenment and spreading peace. That is not what you're about. You had a nightmare, you're claiming it's real because you know there are people out there who already fear it, and you're gonna try to turn a profit from it.

But now the problem is, the world is a crappy place to live? Because you've gone hungry? Do you honestly think you're the only one in this forum who has experienced homelessness, hunger, sadness, fear?

Please tell us about some good things that have happened in your life! Tell us something wonderful about the human spirit! Look for what CAN be done, not what CAN'T.

You have complained that your posts aren't being read. In all honesty, I have read each one up to this point but I don't think I can anymore because it seems like all you want to do is spread fear and discontent. Well, I hope things work out for you. I hope you have a life-changing revelation. A good one this time!!

You keep stating that you can prove there is a hell. You said god is our spirit father, no question. The problem remains that these are merely your opinions and as such, you cannot prove them. You can only state these opinions which have obviously become beliefs to you, and create discussion. Conversely, my belief that there is no hell, is my opinion. I cannot prove it for you, but why should I try? This is my reality. Religion is emotion-based and is taken by faith. There are no facts, only feelings.
Is ice cream eaten by millions of people? Yes. Can you prove that chocolate is better than vanilla? Of course not. Even if the majority of people say it is (btw, it is  ), that does not make it fact. It is still only opinion.
If you choose to believe in hell, god, satan, etc., that is your choice and your "truth", your religion. No new concepts here. Same old stuff, regurgitated. Just different packaging.
IMO, trying to convince people they will burn in hell if they don't do such and such is using fear-based tactics to control people. As tasteless now as it ever has been.
Maybe you would sell more if you turned this into a cool galactic, good vs. evil, sci-fi book instead 

If there is a Satan, and it is a woman, I must insist that she is no super-model but rather my abusive, twisted step mother.
I will never subscribe to the idea that there is a satan or god, hell or heaven, as put forth in the bible. I am sad for the people that get caught in that trap.
And god is supposedly a male? I'm with Lexy on this one.

lol  porkies 

Congratulations on your third baby! 

Good luck on your astral projections! I used to have lucid dreams quite frequently. Then I found out about astral projection, started to practice that, and have less lucid dreams now. lol Maybe I'm just trying too hard....
Keep us posted on your progress!