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Question

Since religious affliation is 95 percent a matter of geography, isn't God setting up people for failure?
In other words, if you're born in the Middle East there's about a 99 percent chance you'll be a Muslin: if you're born here in the West you have a 70 percent chance of being a Christian. So, if there is only one true path to heaven, aren't most of God's children being set up for failure?

Answer 1

its man that tells people their going to hell if they dont believe their way not God

Answer 2

I believe it's up to everyone to decide for themselves through research, reading, perception and then ultimately belief what religion they want to follow. I for instance am Buddhist. The majority of my family is Catholic. Some are Christian. How many people do you know that live the religion of the parents through tradition, respect, etc. Some people would not dare venture into a new religion. Now many of these people know what they are worshipping. I believe though that the majority of people in that 70% would not even know .05 of any question you were ask them about the bible. Let's talk about the bible and how many interpretations there are. I guess my point being that God, or one's higher power is not setting anyone up for failure. Society and family do that well enough on their own. There's my thought. ;-)

Answer 3

this is one reason i think that our perception of God, the afterlife and the origin of man are very likely to be, well, a little simplified or maybe off-base. Not that we are ''wrong'' about the existence of a ''creator'' or even a ''messiah'' or ''savior''- just that the truth is probably way beyond our ability to comprehend or imagine.

i think modern religious beliefs and traditions have developed mostly out of our need to have an explanation about our origins and our destinies. also, throughout history man has shaped religion to meet the needs that may exist at the time, often creating a ''new religion'' where there was enough of a deviation in beliefs or needs.

so i guess my answer to the original question would be ''no''. I dont think God is setting anyone up for failure.

Answer 4

This is a question that I have asked my self for years. It would be illogical for a being like God to have made his presents known. Doing so would negate the idea of free will. Lets think logically about this, if God were to make him self known to me, I would automatically be a believer in him. This being said, you can see the folly of God making him self known back in the past to people like Mosses. All men intemperate things differently, and people like to follow people, because people are pack animals, which means they thrive in groups and communities. An idea or theology is like a computer virus, infect the leader and the idea get filtered down to the people who are being lead. People will stay loyal to this leader, so in other regions the same thing takes place, but these ideas may be drastically different. This is were the conflict arises, in the mind in ideas of how one should live. If God exist, I find it hard to believe that this being would be this irresponsible, unless of course it was done on purpose. The more likely answer is that religion is a man made concept. Human beings are the only living creatures on the planet that have religion.

Answer 5

Around 33% of the worlds population is Christian. I know for a fact there aren't 2 billion people in the west. Which means there are plenty of Christians in the east. People who get to choose their religion and can practise it openly are lucky, but just because a religion isn't the most popular in a area doesn't mean the people who live in that area never hear of the religion and make an effort to follow or not follow it.

Answer 6

We are not born with a religous affiliation other than we are all children of God. It is the responsibility of our earthly parents to bring us up in a way that they believe is true. But, there is a time n all of our lives when we have to make that decision for ourselves. It is a calling to all Christians to spread the word of the Gospel to the four corners of the earth so that all may hear. I don't think you'll find to many individuals in relation to the earths population that don't know about Christianity. That doesn't mean that generations of muslim will change though. But, at least they are all aware of choices.

Answer 7

Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. 1st of all, only a few countries are even close to 99% homogenously religious. second you forget that every religions has dozens of sects. and smaller branches. All religions require you to seek God communally and personally, so each person in on his own path.

Fourth, you forget about converts and people who are not 100% dogmatic, or who adopt additional beliefs like a Catholic who believes in ghosts of fairies, or a Muslim who believes in Jesus, Oh wait they do believe in Jesus...and Abraham and Moses?... And the Hindus have a holy trinity too?

So Finally, if you want to look at the world more broadly (as an extra terrestrial might) maybe we are all practicing the same religion just like we speak one language with many diverse dialects.
(a linguistic side-For an alien, most all humans speak in a small set of phonetics, and we can all speak each others languages because we all have the same tounges. fr. langue=tounge. We can't speak bird cause we can't reach that pitch, just like we can't roar like a lion. Animals speak different languages.)

Strangely I actually think animals practice the same religion we do...Have You ever heard of Squirrel Christ???

Answer 8

Actually, Christianity arose from the "Middle East" as Jesus was Jewish and Jews believe in God who is the focus of Christianity in the person of Jesus Christ, and I would check your statistics about religion in the "Middle East" since a great deal of the "Middle East" is in Israel which is...correct me if I am wrong...Jewish which is the precursor to Christianity.

Actually sir, what you want is to be antagonistic toward what you consider to be narrow-minded Christian Evangelicals. This question is more to provoke than to obtain actual statistical fact of which I question your basis of to begin with.

And by the way...God's children are never failures...weak human vessels indeed...but NEVER failures.

Answer 9

If you've ever read different bibles from different religions you'd see for yourself that in the end they all pray to the same god, just a different name. I've read The Bible, the Quran, and I've studied up on Islam, Jehovah's Witnesses, etc. In the end, although they all fight about who's god is better, all the bibles point to the same thing. Too bad God wasn't real.

Answer 10

No because God looks on the heart.If someone is born in the middle east and they are muslin,if they believe in the true God they will be saved.God looks on a honest heart,a honest heart will seek after god and he will direct their path.If a person is honest and open hearted then regardless of where and who you are God can and will be found by them.......

Answer 11

Actually, natural geography has nothing to do with religion. If you are born anywhere, it is the environment of the people around you that deturmine your starting religion. They just happen to settle in that area. That's like saying that if you're born in a barn, you're a cow. Where you are born has nothing to do with what you will become. Free will states that we can leave the religion we are brought up in.