No, you wouldn't. Because most people are just born into their religions. No one actually thinks it through before joining the band-wagon.
Granted, some of you may have "changed" religions, or a miniority of you have "sepcial cases", but it is true for the most part. (and yes, i know there are some xians in Iran...duh)
Brainwashing from a young age.
Luckily 25% of young people between the ages of 15 - 28 are Atheist. Up 257% from previous decades.
Booyeah....boo..yeah.....
discuss
2007-09-20 18:42:20 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Questions like this fail to account for those atheists who convert to relgion and vice versa. You still have the problem of free will to contend with. Everything in't as black and white as you would like it to be.
2007-09-20 18:49:54 · answer #1 · answered by Edward J 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Granted, born in Iran I personally would have no opportunity to hear about Christianity itself. If by some chance I found a bible or christian pamphlet lying on the ground that said, "Repent and became a christian!" I would laugh and cast it to the ground again. I must say the argument is complex. To shift religions is a major transition in life. It would take a few real-life stories to even make me interested. Iran is a particularly difficult place to discover God or Jesus. I could just as easily have been born into a Buddhist family in Sacramento California, for example. I would be surrounded by churches and bibles, visionaries, missionaries, pastors and the like. I just might have been NOT born into my religion and still be in it now. I hope I don't sound too stupid.
2007-09-21 03:14:28 · answer #2 · answered by Pepper 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You have no idea what you are talking about.And you have no idea what it means to be a Christian. Ya lets all be atheist's look what it has done for Russia!! And to answer your question, yes you would still be a christian. We are not born as a Christian. We become a born again Christian by faith. And you are either a Christian, or you are not a Christian. Most born again Christians were former atheist non believers. Do you think we all got together one day and said hey lets all believe this now because it sounds real good? You people need to get a clue. Auhh maybe just look of your back porch. Do you really think this all came to be from a rock, or a puddle of goo??
2007-09-21 02:00:39 · answer #3 · answered by Joe D 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Maybe not, because in Iran anyone who is a known Christian is imprisoned, tortured and probably executed, so it is hard to hear the gospel, and being unable to hear it, it might be hard to have a conversion experience.
You're wrong in your other assumptions, and are not basing them on anything other than your small thoughts. If you are, you should cite your sources for your statistics. They seem to be one of those that fall into the "66 percent of statistics are made up on the spot" category.
It might surprise you to know that the people with the deepest faith have questioned and struggled with that faith. I'm basing that upon the Bible, writings of St. Augustine, St. Theresa (of France), Mother Theresa, and others.
And even if a person IS born into a religion, that does not negate the authenticity of their personal decision to follow that faith.
2007-09-21 01:52:34 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is rude to answer your own question. And there are Christians who live there as well as on every continent of the world. I really am not worried about the rising population of atheists. There are still more believers than non believers. Boo yeah
2007-09-21 01:46:39 · answer #5 · answered by Sparkles 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
As an Atheist,would you last going to live in Iran.
2007-09-21 01:51:28 · answer #6 · answered by siaosi 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
i was never born into my religion. if it hadn't been for necessity i would not have seen Jesus and would probably not believe in him to this day, unless someone was tactful enough to have told me that since i saw satan would it then not be possible to have a Jesus around as well?
2007-09-21 01:49:30 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
...And if YOU were a Jew, and you were born in Palistinian Occupied Gaza- would you STILL be a Jew? You're Logic makes LESS sense than Bush's when he got us into the Iraq mess! :(
2007-09-21 01:51:18 · answer #8 · answered by Joseph, II 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I probably would have been Muslim, but there's no guarantee. I'm one of those who switched religions. It really has to to with how much information you have at your disposal.
2007-09-21 01:45:54 · answer #9 · answered by delsydebothom 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Why do people ask and answer their own questions in the same question? To rant?
2007-09-21 01:46:27 · answer #10 · answered by RIFF 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋