Would You Honestly Have Believed In Your Relegion Today If Your Parent/society Hadnt
in all HONESTY, would ANY1 of the people here believe in the relegion {mostly organized relegion} if their parents or society hadnt brought them up in it, or if they hadnt spent most of their time around people with that point of view?
Difficult to say because, if I wasn't exposed to it in growing up, how would I know whether I liked it or not? And this wouldn't apply just to religion but probably just about anything.
The above aside, while I certainly have Not agreed with everything I was taught about my faith, I have always admired its values, their practicality as evidenced by the survivability--indeed, capacity to flourish--of those who practiced them.
Re: Would You Honestly Have Believed In Your Relegion Today If Your Parent/society Hadnt
Originally posted by leonheartmm
in all HONESTY, would ANY1 of the people here believe in the relegion {mostly organized relegion} if their parents or society hadnt brought them up in it, or if they hadnt spent most of their time around people with that point of view?
I am a Buddhist and I was raised a Christian.
Re: Would You Honestly Have Believed In Your Relegion Today If Your Parent/society Hadnt
Originally posted by leonheartmmI was brought up by Christian parents and yes, I believed what I was told until I was older and researched it out myself.
in all HONESTY, would ANY1 of the people here believe in the relegion {mostly organized relegion} if their parents or society hadnt brought them up in it, or if they hadnt spent most of their time around people with that point of view?
Originally posted by RedAlertv2
Say are you asking would anyone be religious, if they hadnt been exposed to religion all their life?
what im sayin is that the only reason why people believe that they have been TOUCHED by god, or been ENLIGHTENED or helped by christ only really believe in it cause they were brought up to believe in it. i wana see how many people are actually gonna say that even if they werent brought a completely different way THEY as PEOPLE would always have chosen THIS "apparent" right path.
Hmmmm.....There are people that have not been raised in a certain religion and are more athiest and then did get religion. I think it's a sense of belonging to something higher, and if people are telling you that this is the way for it then they'll join. Especially when they hear the "Hell" message.
Originally posted by MC Mike
If anyone answers yes, they are either severly misguided or adopted their faith/religion/whatever on their own.
No shit.
Originally posted by Storm
I am an agnostic but was raised a Christian.
Originally posted by Eis
Same here but I was raised by catholics...
Me too, although it was not really conditioning. All very liberal.
Re: Would You Honestly Have Believed In Your Relegion Today If Your Parent/society Hadnt
Originally posted by leonheartmm
in all HONESTY, would ANY1 of the people here believe in the relegion {mostly organized relegion} if their parents or society hadnt brought them up in it, or if they hadnt spent most of their time around people with that point of view?
I wasn't raised in any religion. I think parents brainwash their kids into becoming hateful little homophobic brats.
Originally posted by leonheartmm
in all HONESTY, would ANY1 of the people here believe in the relegion {mostly organized relegion} if their parents or society hadnt brought them up in it, or if they hadnt spent most of their time around people with that point of view?
Originally posted by Makedde
I wasn't raised in any religion. I think parents brainwash their kids into becoming hateful little homophobic brats.
Yes, I would. From the time I was born until I was about 14, I only believed it because my parents believed it. I was the only member in my school that believed it. I feel away from my church at the age of 14, and studied the scriptures, prayed, and sincerly asked God, what was true. For two years I did this, and I finally came to the realization of what was true. When I was 16, I came back into my religion stronger in my testimony then when I had fallen away. It took me two years of being alone, and studing with real intent to find out that it was true. It has been almost three years since I have come back, and I am so happy that I did, I have gone through so many problems in my life, but because of the lifestyle my church teaches me to live, and the friends I have in the church, and my faith in God, I have been able to overcome everyone of them. I love God more then anything, and I know that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is the true church. It took me two years to gain my testimony. and I am so thankful for those two years, if it had not been for those two years, who knows where I would be. My advice to you, is to not care what your parents believe, go out and study with real intent having faith in Christ, and he will manifest the truth of all things unto you by the power of the Holy Ghost.