RE: Why people are religious
January 6, 2016 at 8:35 pm
(This post was last modified: January 6, 2016 at 8:39 pm by Regina.)
(January 6, 2016 at 8:09 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(January 6, 2016 at 8:00 pm)abaris Wrote: Yeah, but that came to be in some way. You haven't been born with the catholicism is true gene.
Very true. So then the real question is, why do religious people believe their religion is true? That's a long answer.
Your particular religion? Likely because either your parents were Catholic or because you've been raised around Catholic people.
There was a very particular reason why I, being born in mostly soft-Protestant UK, was also raised Catholic. That reason is because my grandparents came from the mostly Catholic Mediterranean where they were raised Catholic. It's not really any deeper than that. You inherit a particular faith from your family and, unless you decide to leave it, you get comfortable in it.
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