Does anyone have religious beliefs viewed as odd by others?

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I don't belong to any religion, but I do have some beliefs. Even though I'm religiously tolerant, there are people in my neighbourhood who consider me strange because of not being Catholic and not going to church.

I'm a Traditional Roman Catholic, meaning the mass I practice is no longer the official mass of the Church (the official mass is the Norvus Ordo. We practice the Missile of 1962). All my Catholic friends think I'm weird for having stricter rules within the church (although in daily life we aren't any more uptight than the average lapsed Christian), such as not being aloud to touch The Host (communion bread) or chalice with our hands, advising women to cover their heads in the chapel and men never to wear short pants (although plenty do anyway, as we get a lot of people who are familiar with the Norvus Ordo's rules), not allowing girls to serve on the altar (you can imagine the flak we get for that ), and most of all saying the entire mass except for the sermon in Latin, and having twice as many prayers.

You guys have weird beliefs? I was raised on Catholicism by my grandma and still somehow ended up Buddhist with Wiccan influences gained from my mother. Plus I believe in evolution and whatnot, which was weird when i was 8 I guess, but not so much now. Still, I have to keep my beliefs to myself; once for a school project I was forced into the open and everyone made fun of me for years just because of my beliefs, teachers included. Gah.

I am a Lutheran (Christian), but I support the legalization of same-sex marriage, and the decriminalization of medical marijuana. So that would be considered odd, especially since Texas is half-Baptist, half-Catholic.

Well, I used to worship Shamu....

I seem to be the only agnostic around where I live, it get kind of lonely

an agnostic is basically someone who has chosen not to be either theistic or an atheist.
i'm agnost myself as well; but i'm surrounded by many other agnosts and atheists, so it's easier to be one.

however, even though i dont really believe in a 'higher power' i do believe in several spiritual effects; more from the chi/druid angle; but not in the 'mainstream' way either; i'm just weird

Im a LaVeyan Satanist. I dont believe in a holy, omnipresent "god."
just the god of myself, and my humanity.

I am an agnostic. I look at it this way: If a squirrel can't learn to speak because their minds can't comprehend it, who's to say HUMANS have the ability to understand the reasons of existence? Are we not also animals? Not trying to convert anyone, and I am HIGHLY tolerant of religion, so don't get the wrong idea; I do go to an Episcopal church (relaxed denomination of Christianity) and go to "Sunday school" (which is more of open discussion on whatever we feel like, and it's actually better than normal Sunday school as we learn how to survive in life and participate in political debates), though, as it does better me as a person. I also am the only vegetarian in my school so I have to get a chicken salad and pick the chicken out. EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. I don't get Atheism, though, as it's based as much on faith as Theism. Just faith in humanity's ability to learn rather than faith in a supernatural entity. I also don't deny or accept anything, not even if "proven". Sure, something can have enough proof to act upon it, but humans just can't comprehend everything. I'm willing to accept that there's something(s) out there, but I don't think we could understand it. Just my two cents.