Questioning Your Beliefs Can Lead You to the Truth - Creative Religious Thinking
If you lived on a desert island in the middle of nowhere and there wasn't any information on the island, you could make up your own religion without any competition.
No one would ever question anything that you did and you wouldn't have any problems convincing yourself that your religion represented the truth.
I guess something like that would be okay, if you lived somewhere, where there wasn't any information.
There wouldn't be any problems, if you lived within a community, where everyone believed the same thing and never questioned anything.
I don't think you would ever have any problems about your religious beliefs, if you lived inside of a building with out any access to the world around you.
Am I starting the makes sense or am I just babbling here.
I hope you're getting the point, loud and clear.
We don't live in a world like that today, but it wasn't like this 1000 or 2000 years ago.
Today we can read and write and communicate with people all over the world.
We can share information about one religion and gather information from another, within minutes if not seconds.
The world we live in today is full of information about religions all over the place and all you need to do is start looking for it.
The information is there and you're not on a desert island, so there aren't any excuses.
If you really want to know the truth about your religion, you're going to have to study it and others.
I couldn't understand religions like Buddhism and Hinduism, when I was 18 years old and didn't know anything about them or that they even existed.
Now these religions make more sense to me, simply because I understand a little bit about them.
With that said, learning about Buddhism and Hinduism helped me to realize some of the problems and contradictions within Christianity.
It might not make much sense now, but by learning about other religion's, it helped me with my studies on Christianity.
You might not find everything that you want to learn about if you remain in the same community and surround yourself with like-minded individuals.
If you really want to learn more, you should seek the knowledge from other religions and people who don't share your religious beliefs.
You shouldn't believe everything that you read, but you should look for the truth in the things that you do choose to read.
No one would ever question anything that you did and you wouldn't have any problems convincing yourself that your religion represented the truth.
I guess something like that would be okay, if you lived somewhere, where there wasn't any information.
There wouldn't be any problems, if you lived within a community, where everyone believed the same thing and never questioned anything.
I don't think you would ever have any problems about your religious beliefs, if you lived inside of a building with out any access to the world around you.
Am I starting the makes sense or am I just babbling here.
I hope you're getting the point, loud and clear.
We don't live in a world like that today, but it wasn't like this 1000 or 2000 years ago.
Today we can read and write and communicate with people all over the world.
We can share information about one religion and gather information from another, within minutes if not seconds.
The world we live in today is full of information about religions all over the place and all you need to do is start looking for it.
The information is there and you're not on a desert island, so there aren't any excuses.
If you really want to know the truth about your religion, you're going to have to study it and others.
I couldn't understand religions like Buddhism and Hinduism, when I was 18 years old and didn't know anything about them or that they even existed.
Now these religions make more sense to me, simply because I understand a little bit about them.
With that said, learning about Buddhism and Hinduism helped me to realize some of the problems and contradictions within Christianity.
It might not make much sense now, but by learning about other religion's, it helped me with my studies on Christianity.
You might not find everything that you want to learn about if you remain in the same community and surround yourself with like-minded individuals.
If you really want to learn more, you should seek the knowledge from other religions and people who don't share your religious beliefs.
You shouldn't believe everything that you read, but you should look for the truth in the things that you do choose to read.
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