If religious people were born and raised in some other part of the world with a different religion,?

Question

Would they beleive that different religion as devoutly, or would they have grown up knowing it wasn't the right one.even though their parents and that society beleived it?

Answer 1

The demographics are quite clear: despite exceptions, most people follow the faith of their family or the local society.

The maps below just for the USA seem quite clear, even within the Christian denominations:

(Good Avatar, as long as everyone doesn't do it, then it's just going to give us a "strip-mall" look!)

Answer 2

Study North Korea. I got torched for a question last night about that. My question was different but damn.They have been brainwashed into believing that Kim Yiel Sung, their Great Leader and Father has supernatural powers. That he crossed the river on a bridge of leaves and when he threw pinecones they turned into hand grenades (this is when they were at war with Japan). When he died a 1000 cranes decended from heaven to take his body, but the grief of the poeple was so great that after 30 days the cranes left and now he sleeps in a special place (can't remember where) And his son is Dear Leader who is revered as if he's the son of god. He was said to have been born in a sacred place in the mountains where the poeple originally came from, and that it was the middle of winter, and the flowers bloomed and the world knew that a great leader had been born. These poeple are indoctrinated from birth to believe these things and despite the oppression of the regime they actually believe these things and believe they are in the greatest country on earth. It's bizarre. They have no access to the outside world and the government propogates this upon pain of death. Just in the last few years have dissidents been fighting for freedom with the use of technology. (very dangerous).
Anyway, you should check this out.

Answer 3

If you are born and brought up elsewhere, you are going to believe...or rebel against...what you are taught. These forums are great examples of that.

The frightening part is that there is no guarantee that any one faith is more correct than the other. You can be convinced your way of believing is the ONLY way, but remember, millions of people just as devout as yourself believe they have the true path and that your faith is wrong.

Religion can be used for the good of all, or for an excuse to kill. Fundamentalists in any religion are dangerous because they feel they have an excuse to annihilate those who believe otherwise.

Answer 4

great question and another star for you again. people who argue that we all have choices would agree that we don't choose where and/or which family to born into. almost all families enforce their believes to their children as well as the bigger societies. while we are young and have flexibilities these societies shape and brainwash us and inflexible by the time one is able to leave home! doesn't matter where one may born into, they mostly believe that their ways and their religion , nation and etc is the best! the only exceptions to these rules are people who had the opportunity of socialization with a many diverse group as possible and travel and live within other diverse populations. one has to be a nationalist in order to evolve to an internationalist just as one has to like oneself in order to like others. however i can' see the same rule to be necessarily true with religions and if there are any possibilities it can only be achieved through social education. peace

Answer 5

I firmly believe that religion is a cultural phenom. Religion is designed to create order within society. There are always some people that will divert from the popular religion of their culture but not many. Anyway, there is no "right" religion. If God is supposed to be our Father then he won't mind which religion his children choose so long as they are true to themselves.

Answer 6

They would either accept or reject what they were exposed to. They wouldn't question the faith they were brought up with vs. another potential one without knowing about it. This of course assuming the person is faithful only because they were "born into" a religion and exposed to it at a young age vs. discovering and choosing it later.

Answer 7

Another excellent question.... These faith followers are the biggest hypocrites that walk on the planet, they just can not see the idiocy of their ideals. One God but many paths to him... who is right? which is best? whose prophet is more divine... All mumbo jumbo....

Why can't people deal with the spirituality that is inherent in all of us and make humanity a friend rather something that is expendable...

Just consider a 'faith follower' in Washington... who is happy to see death and destruction as a means to an end.

Answer 8

"If religious people...". Wouldn't it make more sense to NOT assume they were religious in the first place and just happen to be exposed to religion in another part of the world to make it more plausible? Otherwise, the "if" part of the question merely raises a hypothesis contrary to fact. I think the question properly is "Can people who are religious in this country ever believe in the religion of people from some other part of the globe?" And the answer would be....no.

Answer 9

We all are victims of our surroundings, in that sense, we learn from those around us as we grow up and believe those who tought us are correct.
Many individuals as they approach adult hood ,question their faith and seek alternatives. Most soon return to their original faith as they were tought growing up.
Adopted children adapt to their adoptive family as a member of the faith taught in the household regardless of the birth parents beliefs.
Soooooo.
In my opinion, we go with the flow.........

Answer 10

They would obviously believe the religion they're taught in the other part of the world, because they'd still be submissive people.