Are you the same religion as your parents?

Question

Do you listen to the same music as your parents...no way
Do you dress the same as your parents...no way

All these change with time, but for some reason, religion does not...

Imagine a man from 200 years ago was dropped into our society. He would have no idea what was going on. He would be fascinated by cars, phones, lights, roads, houses, planes, fridges, showers, toilets, etc. He would know nothing of modern science, music, sports, dinosaur fossils, global warming. We would simply be amused with how dumb he was. Even small children would no more than this man, in every area of life, except for one: religion. This stupid man would know everything there was to know about religion.

Hasnt anyone noticed that the world is constantly progressing and traditions of the old testiment and even the new are outdated and pointless to todays society?

Answer 1

I do belong to the same religion I was raised in, but definitely not out of sheer ignorance. I have explored many different religions, and I'm still quite open to exploration. However, I haven't found another belief yet that's sufficiently compelling to make me abandon the Episcopal Church.

And, actually, I DO listen to the same music as my parents. Classical.

Answer 2

To answer the other questions first:

As for matters of dress, my old man wore sweatshirts and jeans, and much of the time, so do I.

But my folks and I didn't share the same musical tastes, generally speaking, except for church music.

I was raised in a devout Italian Catholic home. As a result, well, I'm an Italian Catholic. But I have friends from many different faith groups (as well as atheists) and can honestly say I've checked out many different religions, and respect them. I've been to about a bazillion different churches, synagogues, etc...have attended Wiccan and chaos magick rites, and so forth. I'm friends with an Episcopal priest. However, I find great meaning in the Roman Catholic Church, and continue attending Mass even though my parents are both dead and I have virtually no living relatives. I chose to remain a Catholic on my own.

Answer 3

has philosophy changed over hundreds, no thousands of years? Have basic mathematical principles and human logic? Have morals and ethics and human values? All of these things are an integral or paralel part of religion, which is meant to spread over all humanity or else it doesn't work. To be common to all people is to be timeless, universal. Religion is as close to "universal" ethics as we can ever possibly get.

And there is so much change that is never formalized because it becomes the essence of the current society, a reinterpretation of the rules that is so intrinsic to us that we don't need to write it down.

Besides, I would hope a system of thinking that influences the majority of the world's population would be a little more permanent than music.

And to answer your original question, yes I am the same religion as my parents, because I have taken the time to study it along with many other systems of faith and chosen the one best suited for me. That's how an organized system usually works, doesn't it?

Answer 4

Wow! I have to say that you're wrong! I don't have the same religion as my parents--not even close! But, I love the same music they love. I happen to wear some very similar clothes and jewelry as my mother. I think my mom has style! Your point about religion is very narrow minded and is based only on the Bible. What about a man of a completely different faith from 200 years ago? Do you think the same things about that?

Answer 5

NO !!

Listen Up !!!

Have you been brainwashed into religion as your parents may have been ?

Do you determine the destiny of your life, or do you put it in the hands of someone else or a deity, and by doing so not taking responsibility for your thought-life, words and actions. Or have your chosen your own destiny, like Real men and Real women are suppose to do.

Answer 6

I don't think anyone in my family is the same religion. My parents aren't even the same religion. My dad's a Catholic. My mother is a generic Christian. My sister is agnostic. My brother is Baptist. I'm a Daemonolator. I have an uncle who's a LaVeyan Satanist. I have another uncle who is pretty much an Atheist.

Answer 7

No. My parents tried to force me to be a Christian, but by ten years old I knew that religion was a bunch of b.s. I kept quiet until I was about 15, and felt strong enough in my conviction to "crush" their silly little world. I had to endure 6 years of catechism, communion and confirmation just to not be disowned.

Amazing what damage parents think is their right to inflict on their children. Thank goodness I was an intelligent child!

To this day, my mother thinks my soul is lost. How pathetic.

Answer 8

No. In fact, my dad forbid me to go back to church when I had an encounter with God at the age of 5. It was a Baptist church, and I was going with a neighbor lady who used to babysit me. My mom started taking me to the Methodist church when I was 9. I left shortly after graduating from high school. She left not long after that. She never really even talked about God. In fact, I can count on one hand the number of times my mom actually talked to me about God in my whole life leading up to my full-on conversion to Christianity.

Now I talk about God all the time. And she's coming more and more to terms with it, lol.

Answer 9

No I am not. People have reasons for believeing how they do just as you do. Thats why 200 + years ago our country created the first amendment. bb Sdw

Answer 10

No. I'm a Seventh Day Adventist. My father is a non practicing Catholic. My mother is into spiritualism. My sister believes in something, she just doesn't know what.