Are you the same religion as your parents?

Question

Do you think that if you were born in another culture, you would have a different religion?

Answer 1

Yes and yes. Religion is based largely on geography, in my opinion. Unless you were born in a place like America, where you could change religions every week.
Wicca, here I come!

Answer 2

I am not the same religion as my parents. They are Christian and I am Asatru.

If I were born into another culture, would I still be Asatru? Don't know. Depending on the culture I might have turned out to be a different type of person. I would like to think that no matter what though I would have eventually come to Asatru even if it took me a longer time or a shorter one.

Answer 3

Everyone inherits some kind of a religion from their parents, whether it's Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Shinto, Native American, Protestant, Catholic, Taoism, Atheism, Wiccan, or any other form of spiritual belief system.

However, as we grow up we must decide whether this religion meets our standards, and if not, to make a change. Ultimately we all have the responsibility to prove to ourselves that the religion we claim as ours is the truth.

Personally, my mother was Methodist by birth and remained such, and my father adopted his stepmother's religion as a youth - Presbyterian - but changed to Methodist after marriage. Hence, this is what I grew with. That is, until I started seriously questioning their beliefs and went searching for something that made more sense to me, and followed more closely the tenants of the Bible, which I believe is the true holy book.

So, after much searching, questioning, and diligent Bible study, I made the conscious choice to become a member of the worldwide Christian brotherhood of Jehovah's Witnesses. And I've never regretted it . . .

Answer 4

Not anymore, but if I were born in another culture, I might not have any religion at all.

Answer 5

(1) No. My parents were Catholics. I am non-religious/non-spiritual as I have never found any truth in the teachings of religion.

(2) Me ... perhaps not. If I lived in a region with a more philosophical base for religion, like Taoism or Buddhism, perhaps. But most children do adhere to the religious teachings of their parents.

Answer 6

If that culture had another religion, the odds are about 100 to 1 that you would have their religion. (And they all know they're right. Cool huh?)

Answer 7

i found Jesus at the age of 14 - which makes me a christian

my parents find that an anathema because they belong to a cult and hate my religion because it offers me more than their cult offers them

so i WAS born into another religion and culture than i am now - i believe that wherever i had been born that Jesus would have found me anyways

Answer 8

Same religion as my parents and siblings. We weren't anything for years but all followed eventually. If I lived somewhere else I would probably follow whatever religion was common.

Answer 9

As to your first question, no I am not a Roman Catholic, nor am I anything that has to do with the bible. As to your second, I don't think it would matter which culture I lived in, I'd either have found the faith I have now, or I wouldn't believe in anything.

Answer 10

No. I was raised christian, my parents (and most of my extended family) are christians. I'm agnostic. I don't know if I would have come to this conclusion if I was raised with a different religion.