My theories are, A) Tabula Rasa and the Empty Cabinet Theory .That your parents/guardians/someone you looked up to as a child, made you that way. B) You are afraid to go angainst the norm of society for whatever reason. Fear of rejection, death, etc. etc. C) You just are too stupid to know any better and your a sheep. I know religous people are very good at using propaganda.
And I am not an athiest I do believe in a higher power, but not religion. Spiritual but not religious.
2007-06-06 07:07:13 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Hmmm there are many reason people choose their beliefs. Family influence, friends, bf/gf, and many more. Or maybe someone is having a troubled life and they want something to believe in to make it through life. Some people believe the way they do to be accepted. Some people are Buddhist because they are from Southeast Asia and 99% of asian there are buddhist anyways. There are many reasons. Some people like the culture or they like it also some people have no choice. Some are brainwashed to believe that way...maybe it's been carried down. I hope that helped you.
2007-06-06 07:14:20 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Your Spiritual but not Religious? Where does your spirituality come from? You believe in a higher power that doesn't reveal himself? I don't follow religion for the sake of religion. I follow what the bible teaches. I believe a loving creator would share about himself, why he created us, what our purpose is. If you don't believe in the bible then you don't know why you were created, and this higher being doesn't love you becasue he hasn't revealed himself.
Try reading C.S. Lewis book 'mere Christianity' If you want a logical reason for Christianity this will explain in. It doesn't start off telling you to believe the bible. It has you look at mankind and how there had to be intelligent design and takes you logically through the steps. Or you can go ahead and remain in your ignorance rather than trying to find the truth. keep mocking His 'sheep' when you don't understand them. It's easy to mock what you don't believe or understand.
2007-06-06 07:19:35 · answer #2 · answered by his.grace 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I'm not really one religion because I think think that Christianity, Islam, and Judaism all have too many similarities to be completely different but I prefer the Jewish prospective on the higher power (whatever you want to call him/her/it). But Though I'm technically half Jewish I am not a part of the organized religion because I haven't had a mikvah and I don't think I am ready enough for that large of a commitment.
Not A) My mother's family is Presbyterian and not very religious, my father's biological parents were Jewish his adoptive Protestant though he was also never very religious.
Not B) I live in Washington- proposed headquarters of the "Aryan Nation" and while most people aren't Neo NAZIS most are christian in the part of the state I live. So I'm not exactly the norm.
But also not C) I have gone to a Presbyterian church sense I was 6 so in order to come to the above conclusion I had to do a lot of studding of my self and religion.
2007-06-06 07:25:18 · answer #3 · answered by Sara 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
you're searching for Buddhist, who if i'm no longer unsuitable, don't have self belief that for the period of a ultimate being, yet basically interior the training of Gautamna Buddha. Their could be different religions which don't have a God. unsure although. in all probability Taoism? i think of it basically is going to coach that it is available to be very religious, yet no longer be a theist. and that i think of, no count if or no longer we've self belief in God, we are able to continually seem to end our lives with some thing better than basically the fabric worldwide we live in.
2016-11-26 19:49:02 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
John 6:68-69
Simon Peter answered, “Lord, who will we go to? You have the words of eternal life. We have come to believe and know that You are the Holy One of God!
Acts 4:11-12
This [Jesus] is The stone despised by you builders, who has become the cornerstone. There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to people by which we must be saved.
2007-06-06 07:14:00 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
My answer is D): after a lot of thought and research and questioning and study, my religion - with all its icky history and flaws - is what works best for me as a framework within which to worship the God who I believe in.
2007-06-06 07:11:32 · answer #6 · answered by Church Music Girl 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Spiritual but not religious is a good answer, since they are completely different. "Religion is based in and on fear". "Spritualism is based in and on love". Most religious people are weak and sheepish. Yeah, I thought stupid also, until one of my mentors informed me that they were merely "pale yellows". Uninformed with not enough experience.
2007-06-06 14:22:29 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
First off I'm not religious, I'm saved. I don't follow a religion, I follow God. Man is the one that has put God in a religion. I serve him because he has revealed himself to me. He has brought me out of a life of sin and I am nothing without him.
2007-06-06 07:11:42 · answer #8 · answered by ? 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I follow my religion [[christian]] because it is very important to me. I do believe in God and I worship him. But I am not a good girl like te people who don't do anything outregeous every once in a while.
2007-06-06 07:11:13 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Almost everyone's religion is an accident of birth. U.S. = Christian, Middle East = Muslim, Seatheast Asia = Buddist, India = Hindu and so on.
2007-06-06 07:11:07 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋