Are you the religion you are, because you were taught that?

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If you were raised in Pakistan, you'd have a different name, and a different language. You'd have the same voice and the same fingerprints, but you'd be Muslim. People believe what they're taught - not what's actually true.

Yes people do convert.

Then some of them get older and decide that they can switch gods and say "That old god wasn't really god, now I have a new one and he's real."
 
This question is interesting. I was raised Jewish but renounced it at age 16. So i think the answer you are looking for is no. However, my pagan and LaVeyan satanic based beliefs I taught myself so technically, yes, I am what I am because I was taught; by myself/

You should be more clear with your questions.
 
I was raised Athiest and found God within recently. While I will not participate in organzied religion, I have a relationship with God all the same.
 
My mothers parents were Baptist, my fathers parents were catholic. I became a non denominational because I have read and studied the bible.
 
yes thats very true. its the same in absolutley everything though. if your parents had taught you to always say please and thank you , you would do it right? but when you go off to college you don't neccessarily keep that same habit lol. everyone has the chance to make their own changes in their own lives.
 
I was raised a Christian, then I was an atheist, I am now a Pagan/Wiccan, I guess that makes me the latter in your example, yes, I was taught Wicca later in life, otherwise I'd probably be atheist still
 
I was brought up in a household where we did attend church, but as I grew older and learned more about the Bible, I compared the things that were taught in different churches to what was written in the Bible and found that not everyone teaches the same doctrine. Now I have learned not to jump up and say this is true or that is true. I do research first and try to base my opinion on the facts. Yes I use "Science" a lot in my searches.
 
Most of us are brainwashed when we were defenceless kids into believing fairy tales. Christians are brainwashed to become defenceless victims.
 
Several of my family members are religious, but I was raised solely by my mother, who never passed ANY sort of religious or ideological perspectives down to me. I decided that I was an atheist on my own when I was young. When I finally told her how I felt, she told me she was agnostic.

I was never taught to believe any one thing or another.
 
QUOTE: "Are you the religion you are, because you were taught that?"

No I am not. My parents, like most Britons, were indifferent to religion.

I converted to Christianity from apatheism when I was thirty, and now that is the best part of thirty years ago.
 
While I was a Jew, I was Jewish because I grew up in a Jewish household and was taught about Judaism.

"Then some of them get older and decide that they can switch gods and say "That old god wasn't really god, now I have a new one and he's real."

What's even more amazing is when you call their god not real, they get angry and shout at you, calling the kettle black.
 
Had I been born in another country and culture, yes, it's likely that I would have been brought up in a different religion. As for my being a blind sheep and just following the religious party line, don't bet on it. I have attended many, many services and events outside of my own religion, in addition to attending atheist meetings. I left my denomination because I could no longer justify the homophobia and misogyny. I even left my religion altogether. I feel that I'm being drawn back to my original religion in certain ways and often answer questions here on behalf of that religion, but am becoming seriously discouraged after seeing how much hatred is being promoted in the name of that belief system. Still, I feel that it has a lot to offer both culturally, charitably and spiritually. But I know that I'm on the outside of my religion, in terms of being at odds with popular opinion. I don't share the beliefs of most of my fellow religious practitioners. Several people in my household, myself included, have switched religions and philosophies, and that's all right.
 
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