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Originally Posted by teraval
I was born into a Catholic family but two or so years into my life, my parents converted to Seventh Day Adventists and that is how I was raised. I stopped going to church when I turned 18 because it became more of a choice then. I look at my parents and I absolutely marvel at their faith. I have met so many people like my parents but a lot of them belong to different faiths and different churches. With so many different thoughts and ideas on God and everything related, I'm curious to know from all of you, what makes you think your religion is the right religion?
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Children believe what they are told.
The heavier the hand of the controller the more that child is controlled.
The more convoluted the dogma, the more difficult it is to extricate oneself form it.
Exceptional children (free spirits if you will) will have enough sense of inner self/truth and will not succumb.
"God bless the child who has his own"
Sometimes (and sadly, not often enough), when a child who has been force fed lies (of a religious nature or other) reaches adolescence, he/she will begin to question the authorities, ie; the authors of the lie(s).
If the young adult is hell bent on freedom he/she will begin to seek his/her own personal truth.
Or, if he/she is not sufficiently motivated to seek "truth" (whatever that is), he/she will simply react and, as i see it, this is often when the so-called atheist is born.
I'm not dissing atheists (what is an atheist? a materialist? one who believes only in the reasoning aspect of mind? i dunno) but it seems to me that they are often folks who have been indoctrinated (to some degree) and, instead of deeply searching, they just flip to the other side of the coin.
It's similar to the kid in the bible belt (u.s.a.) who finds an attraction to the satanical (and no, i am not likening atheism to satanism).
It (satanical intrigue) is reactive and it's angry and rightly so but it's not a solution.
What is the solution?
Believe nothing!!! Direct experience is the antidote ... it's what counts.
In the mean time (and it can be mean) be kind, be loving, be tolerant, be open, be yourself, be as free as you can be in this hyper controlled and controlling world and be patient.
That's, in part, how i see it.
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