Why are so many people willing to blindly accept religious/spiritual beliefs by society & parents?

Question

It's amazing, and even 'unbelievable' that so many people will readily accept beliefs handed down to them by their parents (and society) just simply because they are their parents and authority figures. They don't take the time to, and don't bother to question their religions and beliefs, and would even think it taboo to do so

I am generally interested in figuring out life. I study all religions and all the spirituality I can find. I practice certain Sadhanas like meditation, but I am not willing to believe absolutly anything. Rather, I am 'open minded' to everything. A certain quote by Buddha comes to mind: "Believe nothing..."

I compare and contrast everything I hear or read about that has to do with life, God, afterlife etc. and I take no sides.

I am in favour of people like U.G Krishanmurti who seem to challenge religion and sprituality, yet I am not willing to believe in what he 'teaches' unless i find it to be true.

I was just wondering what the worlds' thoughts are on this

>>>Your premise is a fabrication

I disagree. Why do you hold those beliefs you picked up from Christianity? You are believing what Society wants you to believe. Christianity seems to be a very societal religion. You have no idea whether Jesus was alive or not, since you probably were not alive 2000 years ago to find out. You have no idea whether God exists or not, or what reality is or not.

The only way to truth is through direct personal experience.

Who is to say what happens after death? This can only be known by experiencing.

Answer 1

You put some of what I think the answer is in your explination. Most people who believe what their parents taught them is they are unwilling, or afraid to search for themselves. They just want to go through life as easily as possible. I believe what my parents taught me, but not because I'm blindly following their belief. I did some searching on my own, went outside my church and also had to find for myself answers to some questions that I didn't understand. It took time and a lot of heartache before I learned what I needed to. I also looked into a lot of different religions, but none but mine could answer the questions I had. But the point is, I asked questions to learn for myself.

Answer 2

I really don't know if you had to scream so loud, in all caps; and why you needed to make an entire rant instead of asking a simple question. Anyway, from what I could gather, you are unhappy with the hadiths and the tafsirs and anything that goes against what you perceive to be the correct Koran. You seem to think that the Koran is "Perfect" despite it's containing a lot of unpalatable facts and so many abrogations and abrogations of abrogations that what is left after deducting all of that would be sheer nonsense. Like a lot of Muslims, you display a lot of ignorance about the facts about the era of Mohammad and the Truth about Islam and, yet, you make sweeping statements and assumptions that are nowhere near to the Truth. I can't blame you because you're not alone in that. In fact a lot of Muslims are there like you. I once had a guy say that Aisha fought in the War and said that if she were 6 when she married Mohammad, that would have been impossible. Fact is, that she was almost 19 when Mohammad died, 9 years after being married to her and she did fight a War then, against Ali; which she lost. Now, the guy who said that back there was denying that Aisha, who said so herself in the hadiths, was a child of 9 when Mohammad consummated his marriage with her. You see, the problem is that a half read scholar reads meaningless things into something that is simple. In your rather lengthy "explanation" regarding the Governmental control over writings, you forgot that [a] the Caliph Uthman did edit all the tafsirs, hadiths and the Koran to bring out the Sahih or Authentic versions. [b] that there were 42 scribes who wrote for Mohammad and many of the tafsirs and hadiths are from them; and [c] that Mohammad, himself, approved the Sahih versions of not only the Koran but even the tafsirs and the hadiths. Not only did Mohammad, himself approve these, they were further edited by people like the Council and the Caliph Uthman, before being declared Sahih. Now, your not accepting History, or even the whole lot of you denying it, doesn't change anything for the simple reason that you cannot change the Past. I'd suggest that all of you stop trying to deny the Truth and accept it for what it was. Try as hard as you wish, you can only delude yourself and some others who are willing to be deluded; but, you cannot change History. All the best. EDIT, What you do is your problem. If you want to shout, that's your problem. I doesn't impress anyone. All that you Muslims seem to know to do is shout and hope that it'll make it true. The one thing that all of you seem to forget is that the "compilation", not the "writing" of the hadiths and tafsirs were made later, while they were very much there right from the contemporary times. It's not my job to educate you Muslims about Islam. It's you who should know the facts about it. Denying and arguing that it's all a lie doesn't change anything in the facts. There are lot of things that I could easily show you that would prove beyond any shade of valid doubt that the hadiths and tafsirs are, in fact, diluted versions of the Truth, after editing. Even if you deny them, you still have the Koran, itself, that shows you so many aspects of the Reality that you cannot deny them. Unfortunately, the space restrictions of Yahoo make that impossible for me to present here. Feel welcome to live in your own delusion of grandeur. It makes no difference to the Truth and one day, you'll realize how you've been working hard to "believe" in a lie. Unto you be your deen and unto me, mine. Go with Peace.

Answer 3

I grew up in the church but couldn't wait to get out of there. I thought it was a waste of time and money. I needed more time and money to spend on me, myself and I.

I finally came to the end of myself after college when I started really thinking about life and the meaning for my existence. I prayed to God that if He was real and if Jesus is the Savior I had to know. So God showed me the truth through a Christian who told me I had to be born-again to enter the Kingdom of God. (John 3:3).

I repented of my sins and put my trust in Jesus to save me. He has and has given me a new life of caring for others and no longer being a self-centered person. He changed my life and I will never regret it.

Answer 4

Part of the function of religion is to intergrate children into productive, happy members of society through the family. We al have an instinctive need to balance ourselves in the world and be liked - this is just natural. But it is the ethic of ignorance behind it that makes it brittle and unstable

Answer 5

I was once indoctrinated to believe the Solar System had 9 planets and Pluto was one of them. Thank God, I finally learned the real truth!

Answer 6

I've been a Christian since 1971, and the people I know who got their Christianity from their parents is definitely the minority.

Your premise is a fabrication.
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Answer 7

I think people are afraid of what their parents would think if they did not believe what they were taught. Also, after being told something many times, even if it is not true, one can be brainwashed into believing it.

Answer 8

You are absolutely right. I hereby renounce all the atheistic teachings I've been taught in school, had forced on me by the ACLU, and daily brain-washings by the media.

Answer 9

3/4 of adults get their religion directly from their parents.

Answer 10

Why do you assume that other people haven't investigated their own beliefs simply because they believe differently than you do?

People who don't investigate their own beliefs don't really care about their beliefs (I.E.: they don't really have any).