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If you'd been born into a different family, would you still believe what you believe today?

If your parents had raised you with different religious convictions, different moral codes, or different ideas about what's true and right, would you have landed on the same beliefs you hold now Or would you be just as certain, defending something entirely different?
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Charity · 70-79
Odds are whatever your parents beliefs were you would be raised in those beliefs and maybe believe as they do. As one ages those beliefs have a strong possibility of change.

You see there are many Christian familes who try to raise their children in Christianity and the children generally who are over at least 10 began to reject the belief.

You have some parents who try to install moral values in their children and fail and you have some parents without borrowed values but their children have them.

So there is no absolute answer to the question.
emiliya · 26-30, F
@Charity Why aren't you certain of anything? You're all just floating around the ether.
@Charity

There may be no certain answer to this question but it is a hard fact that the religious belief is directly correlated with geography and the associated culture.

If you're born in the USA then you're probably going to identify as Christian.
If you're born in Israel then you're probably going to identify as Jewish.
If you're born in Afghanistan then you're probably going to identify as Muslim.
Probably, but I'd have stood a chance.
Thevy29 · 41-45, M
Good question.
CassandraSissy · 26-30, T
Hard to believe that I would be anywhere near the same, being trans and having such a wonderful and easy-going family. Essentially, if I wanted to wear a dress and make-up then I could! Never battered an eyelid...well, maybe my colour choices! Lol!

But I'd be a miserable male, I'd think. No friends. No life. No interests.

😞
emiliya · 26-30, F
@CassandraSissy Who needs friends?
Bleak · 36-40, F
No one can answer that with certainty. But I’ve always been someone who questions, researches, and seeks the truth. I believe that curiosity would have eventually led me to the beliefs I hold today. That said, I also consider myself fortunate to have been born into the family I have.
Bleak · 36-40, F
@emiliya No offense but I would rather keep them private.
emiliya · 26-30, F
@Bleak What a bore.
Bleak · 36-40, F
@emiliya Haha, maybe. I just don’t think everything has to be public. Some things are better kept personal.
exexec · 70-79, C
I would probably be different if I had been raised in a strictly fundamental household that didn't allow questions. I was raised in a Christian home, but I was encouraged to ask questions, to challenge beliefs that I found to be weak, and to develop my own relationship with God. My father and I had many good theological discussions over the years.
My environment, nature and nurture, plays a huge role in my beliefs today.
My beliefs have morphed over the years as I have grown and/or learned with my experiences. I don't know what I will believe in the future either. There is no rigidity in my beliefs because I am aware that my window of perception is heavily limited. I am always open to learning more.
So, who knows with a whole different life what my beliefs would be or how rigid I would be.
Who knows. I don't believe everything my family ascribe to and vice versa. I'd still believe in a God, that much I know. Everyone has a predetermined structural identity in one way or another. I don't quite understand the whole "buh you're cherry picking" argument when not directed at fundamentalists because everyone does that with everything. Isn't the whole point of life to find what fits and let go of what doesn't?
emiliya · 26-30, F
@HijabaDabbaDoo Don't you want to represent a country? Who are you?

Ps culture is part of the structure that builds identity.

What are the other parts?
@emiliya girl, please. You're doing the most rn
emiliya · 26-30, F
@HijabaDabbaDoo What does this mean? Who is rn?

Nobody can answer questions these days, especially women.
Justmeraeagain · 56-60, F
Is probably impossible to know.
I was brought up in a house that was chaotic and did not live out the beliefs that said it had.
If I had been brought up in a more devout household, perhaps, I wouldn't doubt as much as I do now
That's tough ...not sure ..
It's pointless speculating

 
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