My Beliefs

A topic that I’ve struggled with over the past few years.

What is religion?

Which religion is the right one to follow?

Do we need a religion?

Why are there so many different religions?














One Reply to “My Beliefs”

  1. Nick … if your parents didn’t offer you the religion that they believe in, would they be doing their duty? They offered you the food they liked and housed you in the home they thought best and took you to the Doctors they thought you needed. Why would they stop there and not extend this over into the religion they believed in?

    Once you left their home you were free to choose for yourself … and did. So what’s your beef? You eat the food you wish, live in the home you chose, go to the Doctors you see fit and believe as your conscience dictates.

    I don’t mean this to be derogatory but rather to fill in a gap for you.

    Obviously you are not well-schooled in the Bible. Your parents were not well-schooled, either, or you would be, too. In math you deal with logic and the logic here is that they could not tell you what they did not know. They knew that they were supposed to ‘bring you up Catholic’. This is wrong. What they were supposed to do is found here:


    Catholic Bible or Protestant Bible, one translation or the other … this scripture is held in common. It is even present in the Torah of the Jews. The Samaritans held to it, as well.

    As one who espouses science, surely you would agree that it is best to make decisions based on accurate information.

    You said:

    “I donâ€™t believe in guardian angels or any type of spirits (except for some type of god out there). This goes back to my beliefs in science. Iâ€™ve never seen an angel or a spirit and until I do, they simply do not exist in my mind. Show me some good solid proof that they exist and I might change my mind.”

    Might I also point out that you have never seen math. Glyphs on paper, yes … but not “math”. Nor have you seen electricity or magnetism or love or hope. Yet you repeatedly express the hope of moving to a warmer climate. And what is a gambler but an optimist who has learned not to draw to an inside straight too often?

    We ALL (even the avowed atheist) believe in things we can not see.

    Looking over your full post (I’m not about to respond to your every assertion), what I see is you rebelling and rejecting views that are, indeed, wrong. The earth was NOT created in six (you got that number wrong) literal days. Didn’t happen, Jack. But its creation CAN be readily divided into 6 phases based on the science we have and congruent with the events described in Genesis. Moreover, Genesis got the phases in their correct order. What many fundamentalists fail to perceive is that even today the term ‘day’ is indefinite. Ask you Dad what it was like to be a young man ‘back in his day’. Or if a woman wants to have children (plural) ‘someday’.

    This stuff isn’t news to you … but you’ve let your thinking – eager to reject your parents influence – be influenced by contemporaries who haven’t many more clues than you have. I did the same thing. So did everyone in your family back as many generations as you can point to.

    You made the point that, somewhere in the teen years, you should have been permitted to make your own spiritual choices. Well, you were. At 18 you were free to do just that. Since then, you have been your own man.

    I have a book that makes a scripturally-correct examination of creation and science that I’d like to pass along to you. It was useful to me, and I think you might find it so, too. Respond with a mailing address and I’ll get it out to you.



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