(January 6, 2016 at 9:31 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(January 6, 2016 at 8:35 pm)Yeauxleaux Wrote: 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.
That is the reason why I was Catholic when I was 10, but the reason I am Catholic now is much deeper than that.
You know something I realized about myself. If I research other religions I always do it comparison with the religion I accepted already and take where it wavers from my perceptions of reality and truth as proof it is wrong. As well, I seem to make a lot of reasons for why a certain law exists in my religion that seems unreasonable to others, but, don't go look for that type of apologetic reasoning for laws that seem illogical in other religions.
At the same time I seek treasures in my religion with hardly thinking deeply about other religion treasures, thereby the treasures in my religion automatically will seem deeper and more profound.
I think this might be a wrong approach but it's not one I transcended. Do you realize a similar flaw in your approach?
I just thought about this right now and realized I didn't put too much effort in researching other religions.