This video got me thinking. If she was a Jew or Muslim, then it would be different. If a group were to hold hands and praise god, if one were to stand up and say I am Jewish, then some would retort, however you choose to worship god is fine. But as long as you worship? Clearly, they’d all be worshiping different gods. So how could that make any sense? They’ll probably have different ideals of some afterlife and a different idea on what god is to him/her.
So, then how would your Average Joe know what religion to choose? You are what you are born as? In Judaism, you are what your mother is. But what does that really mean? Is it a way to keep the Jewish race (its a race in this case) strong after all encountered atrocities? So then, Catholic parents automatically enroll their children into Catholicism previous to their birth. I guess what they call “original sin” I call “we are all born atheists”.
I can’t help but be reminded of Richard Dawkins assertion:
There is no such thing as a Christian child, there is only a child of Christian parents. Whenever you hear the phrase Christian child or Muslim child or Protestant child or Catholic child, the phrase should grate like fingernails on a blackboard.
I couldn’t agree more.
