How do we come to believe in a religion, one that most of
us never even chose? How many people reading this article right now
believe in the same religion of their parents and how many of your
parents believe in the same religion of their ancestors.
Do you think it has anything to do with repetition? If your parents made
it through life, you can do the same and if they went to church every
Sunday, by god that's what you're going to do. If these people save
their money up for retirement and worked at a 40 hour a week jobs, with
all the other hardships that life seems to pass on us, you can do
exactly the same thing.
I'm not too familiar with other religions but seem to know a lot about
Christianity. As a young Christian I was baptized and went to church
every Sunday. The most important part to me about going to church, was
the snack I would receive during Sunday school. I really can't tell you
what I remember or if I learned very much while attending my church
classes.
I do however remember my parents creating a belief in my mind of a God
and that God was in charge of everything. If I was bad, God wouldn't
like that at all, but if I was good god would like me and maybe if I was
even good enough, one day I would get to go to heaven and heaven is a
wonderful place to be.
Is this how you came about your religion? You just seemed to follow the
path of your parents, family or friends with very little thought, this
is just the way it is and you're fine with that. Or are you one of those
believers that is almost cult like and could never be convinced that
your religion is wrong. You know without a doubt that you need to spread
the message of your religion to everyone on earth.
Are you one of the rare individuals who have studied about their
childhood religion and have now chosen another path. Has someone
convinced you that their religion is better than your old one and now
you have switched and can't believe how happy you are.
Thinking about how I never chose my religion, forced me to study other
religions, to see which one was right. I am even more confused than when
I first started but no longer believe in my childhood religion. I've
often wondered what our world would be like without organized religion
or somebody trying to control us like the government. Both of these
organizations seem to do a pretty good job making us believe they're
looking out for our best interests.
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