This question is for those who believe that there is only 1 right religion.
2007-03-25 19:21:22 · 13 answers · asked by Heron By The Sea 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I just turned 32, my friend says I'm old. it's just a joke.
2007-03-25 19:26:13 · update #1
Just call me the grey heron. hahaha.
2007-03-25 19:26:35 · update #2
Growing up I could not understand some things that I was being taught in Sunday school.
My Mother is a Christian and my Dad is an Atheist. My mother would just tell me the same thing that the Sunday school teacher was saying. My Dad would tell me that I needed to find my own answers and told my Mom that if she was not going to help me by giving me an answer that I could understand instead of telling me the same thing without her to questioning the answer then I was not to go back to Sunday school. He told me that I needed to do my own research and find the truth on my own. This was when I was 10.
At this time I would spend my summers with my grandparents. My Grand father was a Deacon and my Grand Mother was a Sunday school teacher. They would try to guide me but when I would question they too could not give me the answers.
Then when I was 16 I was in a world religion class in high school. There I began to learn about Islam and I could finally have my answers. I was so excited when I went home. But my mother was totally against it. And I was told that none of the garbage was to come into her home. At this time Dad was out of town and did not hear what she was telling me. So I would study in secret.
Less than a year after I graduated from high school I was told that I was to get married or get out of my parents home (by my Mother). I married and my husband was anti anything that was not Christian. So again I studied in secret.
After 5 years of an abusive relationship (with him cheating, hitting and being mentally abusive) I got out. I started college and began to openly study Islam. My Mother tried to set me down and tell me how wrong I am but my Dad has been there beside me still telling me that I needed to find my own way.
I reverted 2 years ago and have never been happier. I learn something new everyday. I am now married to a wonderful Muslim man that treats me with love and respect.
But I think that each person should take their own journey, even if they believe that their belief is the right one. In the least they will be able to see the world through some else's eyes
2007-03-26 00:51:33 · answer #1 · answered by Layla 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
None at all. All religions claim they are the one true path to salvation. A person is not a Christian, Muslim, Buddhist or Hindu by birth. They are made to adopt the religion of the homes they are born into. A person's religion is determined for him at an age when he/she is not competent to make an informed choice. If the home one is born into runs on fundamentalist ideas -- there are two options either side with radical views or rebel when one is competent enough to choose.
Therefore the chances of being born into the right religion is non-existent, since what is 'right' is debatable.
Also all religions claim to be the one true religion. But what is true and what is not is a matter to be needs a global debate.
2007-03-26 02:33:09 · answer #2 · answered by pradip27 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Why should I calculate the chances of right or wrong religion. I am BORN into my religion which is 100% RIGHT FOR ME. I do not know about others, other religions and other calculations. And I am also not bothered and I am not a person to go and tell others there is only one right religion. -
2007-03-26 03:47:30 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
so your going gray now heron?
but to answer your question (even though I dont believe in the concept) you would have to consider a lot of factors.
First do we give equal weight to each religion? and if not how do we calculate who gives more.
Then you need to calculate the odds of being born in to a religion. Christianity would be like 33% Islam would be 15% Hinduism would be like 10%
you also need to decide what is a religion. Is Christianity enough or dose it have to be Catholics? Shia or Sunni Muslims.
In short its very if not impossible to calculate.
2007-03-26 02:24:37 · answer #4 · answered by Gamla Joe 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I actually just recently left my religion because of that reasoning...I was born and raised a certain way (in a very strict religion) and...there's no way that God would bless a certain group of people and not another when both are trying to "do right."...Reminds me of that dePeche mode song: "People are people, so why must it be-you and I should get along so awfully?"
2007-03-26 02:26:01 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I wasn't born into the religion I embrace now, but I do fully believe in it, and I believe that it is right for me.
Peace.
2007-03-26 02:42:44 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
if there is only one TRUE religion...
& right now there are probably over a thousand different religions, sects, denominations, faith groups... etc.
then the chances would be less than 1 in 1000.
so your BEST bet would be to seek God instead (for you are still into odds... there is a 50/50 chance that there is one...
because there is either a God or there is none)
2007-03-26 02:30:49 · answer #7 · answered by 4x4 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
0. You are never "born" into a religion you have to conscientiously embrace it and be transformed by it. Being born into it is foolishness.
2007-03-26 02:28:21 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The "right religion" isn't a matter of being born. It's a matter of being born again.
2007-03-26 02:41:17 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
100 percent.
2007-03-26 02:23:36 · answer #10 · answered by aaron 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋