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The Problem with Beliefs, are Other Believers
Having the respect for other religions is easy, when you know how!
This post isn’t for the faint hearted. It’s sure to ruffle a few tail feathers along the way, but religion never was easy.
Before a child can count to ten, the leading religion of their home area, is thrust upon them.
For me it was Christianity.
I was told without reason that this was something I should believe in — From non-other than school teachers following the school syllabus.
No reason to why I need this belief, just that I should. A naïve mind that takes what they’re told, because they know no different.
That’s a big problem.
Before most children from my place of birth, gets to choose where there loyalties lie, they are christened. Somewhere down the line of storytelling, people become so engulfed in their own beliefs that they choose the fate of their offspring, before their child is even born.
I can’t speak for every religion in every country but for my school, religious studies was considered a must on the teaching Calendar — just one religion though. Convenient.
In the eyes of my teachers, it was important to have belief. As long as the belief was the same as their own. Of course.
This post isn’t aimed to throw shade at the teachings of religion in school but rather to open our minds.
To take in not only the…
