If you were never taught religion..?

Question

by whoever- your parents, friends, family.. would you believe in God or what you believe in? Do you think that any life experiences you've had would've brought you to think that there must be some bigger person that made it all happen and is watching down on you?

Answer 1

I carefully protected my children from any religious teachings and the both believe in God.

My youngest son started talking about God as soon as he learned to speak with out anyone ever mentioning anything about God to him.

He did not even know the word but it was obvious that he was speaking about God.

He even drew pictures of God when he was to small to describe him in any other way.

So I think that belief may be something that some of us are born with.

Love and blessings Don

Answer 2

Creation occurs when energy bits (quarks)
explode, and interface with invisible forces
known as Laws Of Physics. These forces are
God at work.

Quarks form around genetic frequencies. Each
of these vacuums can support 3.1 million quarks.
Sounds impossible, but true.

We don't come from our parents, but through
our parents. All energy forms come from a quantum
stage of energy, and return to a quantum stage of
energy.
Time and space are only by-products of this
re action.

The basic design for the universe comes from
a force we know as resistance.

Creation is a million times more complicated
than we can even imagine.
Even the smallest of details is a miracle. Such
as, the color blue is caused by the speed of the
hydrogen atom's sole electron as it orbits. There's
not much luck or chance involved in creation. Nor,
can it be explained with evolution or flat-line theories.

For the most part, religions are tools that mankind
uses to nail down things that are not supposed to
be nailed down, to begin with. My own personal
belief is that God writes the genetic code up to the
point where water shows up. After that, each species
is on it's own.

Whatever your belief is - even if you're an atheist.
Keep the faith. We lie in God's hands.

Answer 3

I was raised with no religion and I believe that there are many in qualities that are innate in all humans.. Being kind to others is ingrained in all of us (when have you ever seen a hateful baby?) I believe that religion has its place for some but only if you are old enough to make your own decision about your beliefs. Personally I enjoy having an open mind and enjoying the world for what it is. When you are not raised in a religious atmosphere and you look at the worlds religions it is hard to understand how people can believe in them.

Answer 4

i actually was raised on no religion. as a kid i asked lots of questions. my dad is extremely well read, he's like a walking encyclopedia. when i asked him where did the earth come from he just started explain the big bang and the forming of the planets and so on. and i would never stop asking until i understood and he would explain it until i did. that goes for every thing evolution, sex, why trees grow, whatever it was he had an answer. but sometimes like " well were the big bang come from" he say well science doesn't know, it's a mystery, and I'd accept that. it forced me to always ask lots of questions and probe deep, because he could never write me off with statements like " that's god's will" or " god works in mysterious ways." my dad is scientific and he taught me that if you probe deep enough you'll find the world is complex but it makes sense. and beauty of scientific theory is it's not concrete and you can built infinitely on it.
but as far as god, i never believed in him. more recently i've been interested in eastern religion because it does not counter any beliefs i already have.
however i am not ignorant to religion, infact it's one of my favorite areas of study, i know all about the ****. i am thankful i was raised the way i was, i think it makes me free, unlike you i can admit if my beliefs are ever wrong if the evidence presents suggests it. i view religion as a mental barrier. however i do think religous people have a physcological advantage. they will always know that some big guy is in control and someday they'll be in heaven. for me it's not like that.
but i can look at it from all angles, can you?

Answer 5

Read Socrates. In my opinion he is the first Christian philosopher. Even though he did not have a basis of Christ.

God, I believe grants His Grace to people who are outside the normative bounds of Christianity.

Abraham is another person who achieved the Grace of God to understand Christian belief.

So Christian morality is not taught, but given to the individual. God is not bound by the rules He set for Humanity.

I hope this is clear.

Answer 6

Wow, that is a really good question. It is very difficult indeed to not believe what you have been raised to believe. I think it would be difficult to believe in God if as an adult the subject were broached for the first time. Of course it would still depend on your upbrininging because if you were very uneducated it might be easier to believe.

Answer 7

We have 5 grown children - the oldest is 45. They were taught what different religions espoused, but as subjects to be learned, not indoctrination. All of them are, like their parents, non-believers. And all of them have turned out to be good, charitable, and productive human beings. One was, like his father, a fox-hole atheist.

All seven of us feel a life well-lived is its own reward. We have sought as much knowledge as our limited capacities allowed and tried to act justly and lovingly with our fellows. None of that came as a desire for an "eternal paradise," fear of "eternal damnation," or mandates to obey or worship deities. We are watching us.

Answer 8

People who are never taught religion still usually seek spiritual meaning in their lives. Often they will attribute sights and sounds of nature to spirits and will revere their ancestors in a worshipful manner.

Sun-god worship is still more common than Buddhism around the world, and our days of the week are still named after deifications of natural objects eg Sun day, Mo(o)n day, Satur(ns) day, Thor's day.

Most people all over the world myself included are spiritually subject to some echoes of this, and will believe in omens, fate and superstitions.

Answer 9

Religious belief is taught.

I can't really think that my life experiences would have brought me to believe in God etc. It's just all so kooky.

Answer 10

i was never taught religion. my parents did not pray at the table or talk about god or anything.

i did go to a christian church for awhile, but that was mainly because if i went to church it got me off of the farm for the day.
and half of the time my friend and i would skip church and go fishing anyway.

however today i am a very devout Pagan.