That whole "if God didn't exist man would invent him" thing. It's even geographical in nature to a large extent.Īnother reason would be that some people need to believe in something. So religion is largely handed down socially. But you have to ask yourself, if you crash landed on an island as a small child (a la Blue Lagoon), would you be following Islam, Christianity or any of the established religions? No, you would not. It's hard to admit that they don't or that they led you down a wrong path. This one is an especially hard reason to overcome, because as a child, you want to believe that your parents and family have all the answers. You just do it because you always have done it without much thought to it. One of my thoughts on why people follow a religion are that they were raised with it, so it becomes a tradition. no point blank lucu sule no point blank lucu sule. It just strikes me as odd that God would let the state of his religion fall into such disrepair. Everything else, including the meaning whether literal or interpreted is completely up for grabs. My general thinking on this is that if you can "interpret" so much of the Bible then why do you need a centralised religion at all? Why isn't anyone who believes in a god (any god) a Christian if the definition is so liberal? The only thing that seems constant in Christianity is that every denomination considers the Bible to be their holy book. I am mean I heard the other day (second hand so apply salt liberally) that some Christians are even changing the whole holy trinity thing so that it is less "way out there". Why bother being a Christian at all if you are going to change some of the core tenants of the belief. I just think that the lengths some goto rationalise their beliefs are ridiculous. I think anyone who identifies as a Christian is a Christian by definition. Perhaps you should substitute "fundamental Christian" for Christian, since that term seems to be more in line with what you've written. Based on what you've written, you have a very narrow view of what you consider to be "Christianity." You should perhaps spell that out-what I would infer from what you've written is that to "Christian" one must interpret the Bible (by which I assume you mean the Old and New Testaments) fairly literally and that any denomination which does not do so cannot be "Christian." Which would be news to many of the major Christian denominations.
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