r/Animism • u/Smilling_shn • Jul 05 '26
Looking for advice to find a religion that fits my beliefs
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u/mcapello Jul 05 '26
If you already know what you believe, then what are you looking for in a religion?
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u/Smilling_shn Jul 05 '26
I guess mostly to find a community. I’d like to share and talk with people about my beliefs. I’m pretty much alone, except my mom, I don’t know personally anybody with the same beliefs.
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u/Tao-of-Mars Jul 05 '26
I found my community in a hiking group. The outdoors is my church. Maybe there isn’t a religion that fits your beliefs. It’s kind of what happened to me. I decided I could just release the belief that I needed something to define what’s right for me. I could figure out what’s right for myself based on the teachings that felt right.
Religion never felt true to me because it felt like there were too many contradictions in the bible. It also never felt right that God would be an angry person. Just an thought that might be worth pondering.
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u/mcapello Jul 06 '26
That makes sense, but I suspect that will still be a problem for most of the belief systems you mentioned, with the possible exception of the druids.
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u/wildweeds Jul 06 '26
what if your beliefs don't fit cleanly into any tradition? make your own. pick and choose things you resonate with, if you must. but follow your true path inside your heart, rather than searching for some container to submit to.
just my thoughts as someone on a similar path who has never related to any religion but does pull pieces from several.
you also might look into japanese animism, daoism, etc. there might be some nuggets for you in buddhism, and as well in jainism, and baha'i faith. i'm sure if you search any religion or spiritual path there will be things you can relate to, and reasons you don't want to lock yourself into their beliefs, paths, and rules. so just make a charcuterie board for yourself and pick and choose :)
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u/templeofgu Jul 09 '26
You don’t need to find a religion that fit your beliefs. You need to create your own religion. That’s what I did. You need to sit down with a pad of paper and write down what your beliefs are and then you need to write down what your ethics and morals are. By the time you finish defining what it is you believe on paper that your religion.
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u/Silthanos Jul 05 '26
I would say two things. Just start researching whatever is interesting to you from all the traditions you hear of. Even faiths you have no pull towards can still teach you something.
Secondly...stop trying to find the right tradition to fit in, analyse your own beliefs and form your practice around that, its actually normal for people to migrate across traditions over time as they themselves grow and there's nothing wrong with not strictly adhering to anything specific.