A question for those of you who believe in religion

[hazek]

I was thinking about some of the posts I recently read on this forum from people who obviously believe in a religion and a question popped into my mind.

I do not wish to start a debate, nor do I care for your opinion on the question. All I wish is your answer to the question so if you can't give me that, please don't reply at all.

I'm just curious that's all.


Question: What do you think your life would be like today, if when you were growing up, you were taught everything that you were except your religion?

 

[wizardwatson]

I was thinking about some of the posts I recently read on this forum from people who obviously believe in a religion and a question popped into my mind.

I do not wish to start a debate, nor do I care for your opinion on the question. All I wish is your answer to the question so if you can't give me that, please don't reply at all.

I'm just curious that's all.


Question: What do you think your life would be like today, if when you were growing up, you were thought everything that you were except your religion?

Not sure your question is grammatically correct. Not sure what you are asking.

 

[driller80545]

Had I not been brought up going to church, I would not now be as cynical.

 

[pcosmar]

A question for those of you who believe in religion

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I do not wish to start a debate,

I don't believe in religion.
I believe in God.

What do you think your life would be like today, if when you were growing up, you were thought everything that you were except your religion?

Huh ?

 

[hazek]

Ah yes I spelled "taught" wrong. I corrected it now.

And I used the word religion instead of god because there are many gods in many religions and I didn't mean to make my question exclusive to Christians.

 

[dannno]

And I used the word religion instead of god because there are many gods in many religions and I didn't mean to make my question exclusive to Christians.

I don't think pcosmar believes in Buddha (maybe AquaBuddha)

 

[Sola_Fide]

Question: What do you think your life would be like today, if when you were growing up, you were taught everything that you were except your religion?

^^^Do you see how he simply assumes, by blind faith, that empiricism is a valid way of knowledge? You see how he words the question...as if our minds are a blank slate and we only know what we sense, which is philosophically and logically absurd.


Hazek, are you going to attempt to have a discussion with me about the absurdity of empricism? There are a few threads where I am still waiting for replies from you...


Thanks!

 

[pcosmar]

Ah yes I spelled "taught" wrong. I corrected it now.

Ah, well. I rejected a great many things I was taught as a child.
I did quite a lot of reading later in life (Lots of time to read in prison) and eventually came to my position of faith.
I see most clearly the evidence of God in nature, and spend a lot of time in my fields and woods.

Childhood "teachings" have little to do with it.

 

[specsaregood]

I do not wish to start a debate, nor do I care for your opinion on the question.

This thread has win all over it.

 

[GunnyFreedom]

I wasn't taught my religion while I was growing up.

What I was taught, bears almost no resemblance to what I now believe.

Life and experience have brought me to my faith, and the pursuit of higher meaning has prevented me from giving up.

Therefore, I can't imagine having been much different had I been taught something else by my parents, or nothing at all.

Maybe, I would be a little sadder today, with such shallow roots in time.

 

[YumYum]

Hypothetical question. I was raised in a rigid mind control group, Jehovah's witnesses, which is a cult. I was brainwashed and my dad did research and put the whole family on the rinse cycle. I became an agnostic, and while on this forum, I became a follower of Jesus after experiencing miracles in my life after praying to Jesus. I am beginning to have peace because of Jesus. If I didn't have Jesus in my heart I would probably have continued with anger and resentment. "You shall know the truth and the truth will set you free". I love that scripture.

 

[Madly_Sane]

To answer your question, I believe I would be crude, mean, would have a low opinion of anyone else, and would believe that other people's live's were worthless. I believe that because I believe that is my natural personality (without the molding of my christian beliefs and morals)

 

[Maximus]

I would have found religion later on, to me the universe creating itself out of nothing is irrational. Sometimes I look at a beautiful sunset and say, "but its all just random and a huge accident (sarcastically)". There have been enough "coincidences" miracles whatever in my life to lead me to believe in a spiritual reality.

 

[Theocrat]

Religion is Inescapable

I was thinking about some of the posts I recently read on this forum from people who obviously believe in a religion and a question popped into my mind.

I do not wish to start a debate, nor do I care for your opinion on the question. All I wish is your answer to the question so if you can't give me that, please don't reply at all.

I'm just curious that's all.


Question: What do you think your life would be like today, if when you were growing up, you were taught everything that you were except your religion?

What a poor way of questioning, hazek. Your inquiry assumes that religion is separate from how one views the world. I would argue that religion (whether it's supernatualistic or naturalistic) provides the very foundation for how a person lives and views the world. Nobody is religiously neutral. Nobody. And everyone lives by faith in something, even having faith that what you were taught as a child is true or what you are being corrected about as an adult about your beliefs as a child is true.

 

[oyarde]

I was thinking about some of the posts I recently read on this forum from people who obviously believe in a religion and a question popped into my mind.

I do not wish to start a debate, nor do I care for your opinion on the question. All I wish is your answer to the question so if you can't give me that, please don't reply at all.

I'm just curious that's all.


Question: What do you think your life would be like today, if when you were growing up, you were taught everything that you were except your religion?

Guessing .... pretty similar overall .

 

[HealthWyze]

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Question: What do you think your life would be like today, if when you were growing up, you were taught everything that you were except your religion?

I was raised without religion. Secular childhood. I am now a proud Christian.

 

[hazek]

Thanks to those of you who answered me. The answers are very interesting to me. Keep them coming!

 

[low preference guy]

Being taught religion at a very young age allowed me to see through all its nonsense relatively quickly. So I guess it turned out to be a good thing.

 

[teacherone]

Hypothetical question. I was raised in a rigid mind control group, Jehovah's witnesses, which is a cult. I was brainwashed and my dad did research and put the whole family on the rinse cycle. I became an agnostic, and while on this forum, I became a follower of Jesus after experiencing miracles in my life after praying to Jesus. I am beginning to have peace because of Jesus. If I didn't have Jesus in my heart I would probably have continued with anger and resentment. "You shall know the truth and the truth will set you free". I love that scripture.

thought you were a jew....?

I am Jewish and I don't approve of Israel's actions. I do not trust any government, including the Israeli government. I feel that the Israeli government is creating more anti-Semitism from its course of action and its treatment of the Palestinian people. Land is more important than lives. I disagree. Am I anti-Semitic? Am I a "self-hating" Jew?

You are wrong! If Jews have more to gain, and don't want change, then tell that to all the Jews who got fucked by Madoff. The problem with you is that you have never been around Jews, and you know nothing about Jews. You have never been there when they grieve over human sufferage, including the Palestinians. Jews are quick to donate to charities, not because of some guilt trip, but because they do care about people and they worry to death about the condition of our world. Do you hate Jews? Please tell me, and I will gladly leave this forum.

 

[YumYum]

thought you were a jew....?

On my dad's side. We never practiced Judaism, but belonged to a cult that follows the Hebrew Bible and has a dash of Christianity and Freemasonry. I have been encouraged to convert to Judaism, but at this point I have been studying the gospels and absorbing the teachings of Jesus.

edit: I see you added my past quotes to your post, so I will educate you. You can be "Jewish" and not practice Judaism. Have ever heard of the word "secular"? Judaism is a civilization, which includes ethnicity and religion. I am very proud of my Jewish heritage; I just don't believe all the stories in the Hebrew Bible, which I have studied most of my life. I do love the story of Joseph, though.