I wonder if even that much goes into it.
I always liked this comment:
Religion is almost a tribal inheritance. Someone born an Apache did not have to read a book about it.
I always liked this comment:
Quote:If we had opened our eyes to the light under the shadows
of St. Peter's at Rome, we should have been devout Catholics; born in the
Jewish quarter of Aleppo, we should have contemned Christ as an
imposter; in Constantinople, we should have cried "Allah il Allah, God is
great and Mahomet is his prophet!" Birth, place, and education give us our
faith. Few believe in any religion because they have examined the
evidences of its authenticity, and made up a formal judgment, upon
weighing the testimony. Not one man in ten thousand knows anything
about the proofs of his faith. We believe what we are taught; and those are
most fanatical who know least of the evidences on which their creed is
based.
--Gen. Albert Pike, C.S.A.
Religion is almost a tribal inheritance. Someone born an Apache did not have to read a book about it.
