okay heres the deal im making a school research papaer and i need some sites in the web so i can get some thing and turn it in it has to be about that if religion can chage your life style
2007-10-21 15:21:48 · 11 answers · asked by potatoechip 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Of course. my mother was the Granddaughter of a pastor of the Second Methodist Church. My father was a devout Catholic. My mother hated the Catholic Church. When John Kennedy with his beautiful wife became president, my mother agreed to allow us children to become Catholic. Previously she had believed that only white trash were Catholic. I learned Catholic values and grew up to live those values instead of the trash values that my mother had.
The Church taught me to live a better life. To do what is right. To be a good husband, a good father and an asset to the community. No doubt about it in my mind I would have never been anything but a drunken wife beater, thief or worse, if not for the Church.
2007-10-21 15:24:23 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The book of 1John is an example of that. Consider 1John 3:9 "No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God’s seed remains in him; he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born of God." See study guides at
http://www.bcbsr.com/books/1jn.html
Likewise the Bible teaches that religion that doesn't change your lifestyle is a worthless religion.
Jas 1:26 If anyone considers himself religious and yet does not keep a tight rein on his tongue, he deceives himself and his religion is worthless.
Jas 1:27 Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the wor
2007-10-21 22:47:17 · answer #2 · answered by Steve Amato 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Any religion can-- a good deal of religions even MAKE you change your lifestyle. There are plenty that will make you stop eating pork, drinking alcohol, swearing, wearing short skirts or dress, etc. etc.
2007-10-21 22:25:56 · answer #3 · answered by mathaowny 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Choosing to walk with Christ can, but I don't know about religion because I'm not religious, I'm just a Christian.
God bless!
2007-10-21 22:31:32 · answer #4 · answered by Devoted1 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only you can change your life style it is your chioce not any one else's nor any religion's if you choose a religion that ask you to make change & make them it was still your choice!
God's gift > freedom of choice!
2007-10-21 22:27:08 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
not religion itself
but you can make your life different..by going by the religious ways and beliefs.
2007-10-21 22:25:43 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It sure can, it can increase exponentially the amount of people you dislike, or hate, and in many cases, want to kill. Read some history, and some daily newspapers.
2007-10-21 22:25:40 · answer #7 · answered by Milepost 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
religion is a lifestyle.
2007-10-21 22:24:39 · answer #8 · answered by 412envy 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes. that is what its supposed to do in the first place.
im islam, come islam.
2007-10-21 22:27:46 · answer #9 · answered by xc 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Religion can not...but Jesus Christ can.
2007-10-21 22:24:08 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋