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[QUOTE]Originally posted by TSN: [QB] Can I go back to something Ultra said for a moment? He said that religion is a personal choice. The thing is, in most cases, it isn't. Most people are indoctrinated from the time they're born, and they fervently believe in their religion because it was burned into their brains when they were young. Think about it. If you had been raised to age twenty without [i]any[/i] knowledge of any sort of religion, and then someone sat you down and explained every single religion in the world to you, are you absolutely certain you would pick the one you're in now (this only applies to people who didn't actually pick their religion themselves, just those who stuck w/ what they were raised in)? Or, better yet, if you had been raised in a different religion, do you think you would have switched over to the one you're in now (again, this doesn't apply if you're one of the few who [i]did[/i] do that)? The other thing is that most people seem to think that religion is a free choice, as long as you choose theirs. Even in a country as big on religious freedom as the US, there are numerous official references to a Mr. "God". "In God we trust", "one nation under God", etc. Just try to tell me this isn't an establishment of religion. "Oh, sure, you can believe in whatever religion you want, as long as you believe in [i]our[/i] god." Maybe if religion really [i]were[/i] a matter of personal choice, and if everyone could accept that, we wouldn't have all these problems... [/QB][/QUOTE]
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