why is that people pick their religion first....?

Question

why is it people pick their religion first and then "believe" what they are told to believe, why dont they pick their religion based on what they believe.

Answer 1

Actually, one of the reasons I converted to Buddhism is because after studying many religions, I found that it was the one that was most closely related to my beliefs.
I guess I did it backwards.

Answer 2

Although it's true that many follow the "family religion", that isn't true of everyone so a blanket statement is a bit unfair. I questioned where I went for a while, more out of natural curiosity, so I did study several religions and compared their teachings to the Bible but found too many manmade additions to most of them. Today, there are even more and more manmade churches but few people take the time to study and figure out they are wrong or they just accept whatever the preacher says. They think they can go to any church and as long as they all believe in God, they are saved. That isn't what the Bible teaches, though....

Matthew 7:13
“.........for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it."

Answer 3

I picked my religion based on what I believe

Answer 4

What is Religion?
It is duty. This duty comes with birth, family, place. The duty includes customs and laws of the land with its climate. This is the Culture. So religion is spirituality+culture+politics.
It should be Philosophy. Thus Hindu is not a religion and all could call them Pagan. The philosophy in it is six fold found in all religion. So it is multi-religious people of India. Here the belief is fulfilled unless we are narrow, put up in a Well.
My religion started with birth and ended with philosophy. So after all I live by choice and not by chance. This is Life & Living.

Answer 5

Don't group all into a herd, or you yourself will be in the herd.

I myself have no religion, no denomination. That's the atheist still in me. For I know its dogma and majority BS.

But I do believe, I have had "contacts" that are unexplained. And for that, I follow Him. Even became a minister as He asked. But not to lead a church nor congregation. But just to have the title with Him, to prove I stand 100%.

Even being a minister, I still don't attend church nor stand on street corners preaching. In fact, if you met or knew me in person you'd never guess I was a minister. Half my friends don't even know. For faith is a thing between you and Him, the Father. He even tells us this.

All these "religions" are just mans way of making a buck and taking control of the sleeping. If "religion" was about truth, then the book never would of been cut up to begin with nor altered over a thousand times. For the book tells us not to alter it. So if "religions" can't follow that simple and basic of a rule. How can we expect them to follow any of the other rules, specially when we are not looking.

Answer 6

I did too, in a way.

I was raised Roman Catholic, but eventually asked myself the same question about age 13. So I went exploring other denominations and even other religions like Judaism and Buddhism.

I eventually came back to the Church, though. Whatever faults it has, I now have the experience to say it really does have "the fullness of the truth."

Answer 7

I DID pick my religion based upon what I believe.

Answer 8

I NEVER believed what I was told to believe, though I was born into my family's religion. It may have helped that both parents were agnostic/atheists, as I now am. I think its a matter of early childhood conditioning for most people.

Answer 9

I don't have religion I have a relationship. I don't believe what I am told to believe. I believe what the Lord says through his holy word. I don't conform to the masses, God is my only master.

Answer 10

Not all people do it that way, you know. Some people really do base their religion on what they believe.