What Religions don't follow the Bible?

Question

My class is having a debate on same-sex marriage. My partner made the excuse that's it's against the bible...i was wondering what religions do not follow the bible...other than Buddhism. Please do not give me your side of the debate. I don't want to hear it. just give me some religions..please.

Answer 1

Every religion other than Christianity doesn't follow the Bible, other than Unitarian Universalism and Theosophy. They like read all of the worlds holy books, but don't necessarily follow them.



If you want a list of religions, here they are



Judaism, (only the old Testament)

Islam,

Hinduism

Jainism

Sikhism

Buddhism

Confucianism

Taoism

Shinto

Zoroastrianism

Baha'i Faith

Jehovah's Witnesses

Mormons (technically Christian, but have another Holy Book)

Hellenic Paganism

Asatru

Wicca

Gnosticism

Egyptian Paganism

Latvian "

Russian "

Shamanism

Native American Religions (nature centered)

Animism

Rastafarianism

Pastafarianism

Theosophy

Unitarian Universalism

Cao Dai

African religion (they're all pretty similar)

Polynesian Religion

The Ancient Maya/Aztec Religion

Incan Religion

Voodoo



Is that enough? If not, go here



http://www.beliefnet.com/boards/faith_communities.asp

Answer 2

Jews and christians, are the only ones that I know to follow the bible. But we muslims, Believe in the part of the bible that does not conflict with islam, wether it be in the old testament or new testament.

Answer 3

Only christians follow the bible. Some cults take excerts from the bible out of context and use it for themselves, jews holy book "torah" is mostly contained in the bible, and I believe that the muslim holy book might have parts of the bible too, being a religion that much like christianity stemmed from jewish religion. Pretty much all other religions do not follow it.

Answer 4

Non Jewish and Non Christian religions do not follow the Bible as authoritative. Some have their own Scriptures ,for example:



Islam-Quran

Hinduism,-many such as the Upanishads,Vedas and Epics like the Mahbarata and Ramayana

Buddhism-many Sutras



Some religions have their stories or myths but no scriptures

Answer 5

There are aspects of the bible that are contradictory to itself and so human beings pick to stick to the section with which they're extra gentle i assume. i think of choosing and picking is important even with the undeniable fact that. i think of the bible could desire to be interpreted by questioning it by utilising the formula thesis, antithesis and synthesis. putting it purely the previous testomony is the thesis, the hot testomony is the antithesis and an concept like the Trinity may be the synthesis. this could nicely be a theory in the finished component recognising that there desires to be a stability between contradictory innovations.

Answer 6

One thing I was surprised to see missing from these answers - many Christian sects also do not follow the bible in regards to this teaching. I cannot provide the names of the Christian sects that permit homosexual marriage, but there are more than just a few (unfortunately for both them and us).



Jim, http://www.jimpettis.com/wheel/

Answer 7

Don't accept the premise of his claim. Religious beliefs, whatever they are, are IRRELEVANT to the law of the United States.



Your partner may object to same-sex marriage based on his religion. His/her church may choose to not marry same-sex marriage, but that has absolutely NOTHING to do with the legal right of two people to marry.



For example, the Catholic Church has the right not to marry a non-Catholic to a Catholic (nowadays this is rare, but still happens). However, that has nothing to do with the legal right of people of different faiths to get married.



If I were in that debate, I would his claim is irrelevant and a non-sequiter.

Answer 8

Only christians follow the bible.

Answer 9

Hinduism, Daoism, Sikhism, Shintoism, Jainism.

Jews do not follow all of the Bible(their Torah is the first five books of the Bible).

Answer 10

Hinduism, Judaism, Voroasterism, Islam, (we follow Qur'an but we admit the old testament is true), Santoism, a lot more.

Answer 11

Hinduism

Answer 12

"Don't follow the bible"?

Only christianity does. Judaism includes just what you refer to as the old testament; no others.

Answer 13

99% of them. Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Shamanism, Voodoo (it uses a lot of Christian ideals but they do not follow the Bible) , Hellenistic Paganism, Sihkism, Shintoism, every Native American religion, every African religion, every Asian religion, and most of the older European religions.

Answer 14

All religion do not follow the Bible exactly. If they all did it exactly, they all would harmonize and the concept of religion would not exist.

Answer 15

It depends on what church and denomination . Most fundamental or independent baptist follow the bible .

Answer 16

Any Pagan religion. That is, any religion that is not Christian, Muslim, or Jewish.



There are thousands of them. I suggest you look it up on the net.

Answer 17

The bible is a christian/jewish thing.



Nobody else follows it.

Answer 18

Islam...



Take care

Answer 19

Carlinism. We believe that George is infallable.