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SusieQ#1
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Date: November 24, 2014 01:03PM
Why do the billions of people who lived on the earth or are living on the earth stay with their chosen religious belief systems? Or change their mind?
The geography of our birth plays a huge role in our belief systems,including the religion we are taught in the home.
Religion is not just a belief, it's a social system with traditional ties that are traditional that appeals to the needs of all human beings. Religion is most often a generational belief system, sometimes going back many, many generations.
Members stay in the LDS Church for many reasons: it's where they place their faith that comprises their World View.
It's the same for anyone in any other religion.
It's generally how a child is taught, and how they receive positive reinforcement throughout their life from their family and friends.It is where they find value.
It appears that generations of believers of some of the oldest religions known to man are perpetuated by each family continuing their long held traditions, rituals, music, writings that are held in high esteem. Each religious group has it's own very unique and distinct characteristics that comprise their generational culture.
Mormons stay in their church because they believe by faith there is divine truth that gives them a World View that is appealing and acceptable.
Not unlike any other religion that is taught in the home from birth that cements their cultural rituals around major points in their lives: birth, coming of age, marriage, death. Each one has it's specific rituals that are often ancient in some manner.
The most important part of any religion is faith in it's claims. That faith is accepted and rewarded by participation from generation to generation. It becomes the place we feel safe, it's home, love.
Religions don't survive because they can be proved in a court of law, for instance, or are historically factual.
They survive because they are believed by faith. They survive because they are based in supernatural, metaphysical, visionary claims.
Those that want their religion to be factually true, in every sense, will be disappointed. And, that often results in a decision to try something else, or leave religions all together. That result is generally because the core and pattern of religions in general is predominately the same: generational, often patriarchal, ritualistic, with a strong culture with specific in-house traditions which no longer appeal to them.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/24/2014 01:04PM by SusieQ#1.