Are you Christian only because of where you were born?

Question

So if you were born in India, your superstitious nature would have latched onto Hinduism.
If you were born in Iran, your superstitious nature would have latched onto Islam.
If in Tibet, Buddhism.
If in aboriginal Australia, Dreamtime.
If in central Africa, native religion.
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Answer 1

Children are easily brainwashed. That's why they take you to Sunday school. Or a madrassas. Or Temple. Or whatever you go do for your indoctrination into the rest of the superstitious yahoos infesting my fine planet.

I'm not a Christian, but I do find a lot of good philosophy in all of the religious texts, not just the Bible. Most of them tell you in quite simple terms to love your fellow man, be humble and good and do good works. I skip the supernatural crap and the jealous God routine.

The rest of it is just fine, however.

Answer 2

Believe what you want and leave others alone to believe what they want. To criticize one's religious beliefs is to criticize one personally as all religion is personal. People don't take personal insults very well. Would you? Yes, I am a Christian and it may or may not have to do with where I was born. What difference does it make?

I don't criticize you because you are an athiest. Frankly I couldn't care less what your religion is and would appreciate the same from you.

By the way, there are Christians and Muslims in India. There are Christians in Africa and Asia. General assumptions make you look really stupid.

Answer 3

Superstitious nature? If you're anti religion say so. No, to your question. Some are raised to be and others adopt it later in life. We all have free will and make up our own minds. Peace

Answer 4

My "superstitious" nature Loves God, And there is no" latch" It just is....Religion on the other hand is practiced in different ways globally...Though we all worship our creator and surrender to the Tree of Life..Is your question designed to herd Those of us that believe in God through a narrow path where we will somehow be found out as phonies? or are you trying to make a choice yourself? I mentioned the tree of life because its opposite is a curse called the tree of knowledge...In essence your search to justify knowledge is really a denial that there is even a God and who are these people for whom kindness is a weakness, don't they see they are so wrong? the tree of life...The source of us all...The source of LOVE itself .Because all love is surrender...Not knowledge. And Thanks for the religion/politics question

Answer 5

parralell to this question is time frame.

I mean what were Christians BEFORE hezus existed?


Hence the insanity of a religion is popularized by not only where you happened to be born, but aslo when.

I bet most Christians today would simply have been egyptian pharo worshippers. It was trendy in the day.

Answer 6

No, I was born Catholic, baptized Methodist, dabbled in Buddhism and Islam, and was finally confirmed Catholic. However, if I hadn't finally made the commitment to Catholicism, I would seriously investigate Judaism. Spirituality is a journey, not necessarily just a destination.

Answer 7

Where, I was born, (Queens NY) my neighbor to the right was Hindu, to the left, Caribbean voodoo, across the street, Eastern European Islam, Back yard, Japanese Shinto, on the corner, they must have been pagans, lots of parties.

Answer 8

I was born and raised as a christian. My mom, however, gave the the option of being whatever I wanted to be even though I went to church with my grandparents--and I'm not a christian now.

Answer 9

Nope

Answer 10

No, because of the family where you grew.
There are lots of Armenian Christians in Iran: they will not become Muslims despite your wishes.