(July 31, 2015 at 3:17 am)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote: It's tradition. Most people don't really know anything about their favorite ethnocentric religious fairy tales. They just go with their herd.
(July 31, 2015 at 3:24 am)Yeauxleaux Wrote: The difference between whether you'd be a Catholic or a Hindu depends on whether you're born in Mexico City or Mumbai.
People take the religion their parents and/or society gives them, and they are products of their enviroment like I said in another thread yesterday. The only reason I was raised Catholic instead of Muslim is because my family are Maltese instead of Malaysian. I didn't choose it, it was given to me, and I identified with it for 19 years of my life because I was a product of the upbringing I had (and still am in some ways).
You are both totally right, and that is exactly why I posted this thread. I posted it in hopes that a theist would see this and realize what you just stated. I didn't want to say that in my first post, because I didn't want religious people to get instantly defensive. I posted in a way to make the illusion that they came up with that obvious fact by themselves.
