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[darius409]

Sometimes I really envy people who have a strong religious background. I can hardly imagine what it must be like to have something that you have so much faith in, that you can just accept as being true, but I think it must be very nice. It would provide some sort of constancy/certainty in life, some sort of grounding from which to deal with the

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[raininghearts]

I, too, was raised in a secular household and have often wondered what it'd be like to just blindly believe in something.
I used to try to, when I was younger. I would attend church (with my friends), I've read the entire Bible cover to cover, and I used to pray. But I just could never buy into it.
While it may be burdensome occasionally to not have religion, think of all the times you were glad that you were able to not be blinded by it. If you can question your own existence, then you have the power to question anything and that, my friend, is how we learn, invent, and evolve.

Disclaimer: Obviously I was exposed to Christianity more in my youth and you were to Hinduism, so I'm not sure if your experiences were anything like mine, but I'm doing my best to relate. :)

[bobmcblub]

In my opinion, being taught to blindly believe isn't all it's cracked up to be. At least, in my house. I didn't know what I was being taught to believe, because I couldn't read the texts or understand the words being said. It's one thing to blindly believe what you are told, but it is another thing altogether to blindly believe what is recited and means nothing at all to you...

Also, WAKE UP AND CALL ME. My goodness. You must be on shrooms or something.

[samirpaul]

So, I've been meaning to respond to this, but I need to find a little bit of time where I can sit down and think about it. Here's my initial thought: I was raised in a household with a strong religious background, but I'll say right off the bat that I never found comfort in blind belief, nor was I taught to. In fact, for most of the second half of high school, I really aggressively rejected everything my parents believed. Eventually I came to some of the same conclusions they did, and I also came to a lot of different conclusions than they did. But more than breeding me to have comforting but unfounded blind belief, I actually think that they planted a seed of inquisitiveness and showed me that there was something more to life than making money

[dark_amaranth]

Ditto. I can relate. Long live Chairman Mao!