Modern Religious Experience: Reflection Question #1: "According to Mircea Eliade religion has 'not vanished without a trace; [it] has contributed toward making us what we are today and so, after..." In what ways has religion contributed toward your personal history?
Religion is what shaped me into what I am right now. It was the monotheistic religion, Christianity which introduced my family and I to the world we know. We all believe a belief of a spiritual-force like the prehistoric people, but for us it would be God. No one knows who I would be for if I had not met God earlier in my life. Who would I be?
All I know is that Christianity made our family believe in the values we do. This is one way religion contributed to me. My religion helped me find my values, which are honesty, integrety, love, hope, peers, and putting God first. I think it was also my religion that created taboos, the restrictions for me. The things I can't do and I can do, they all have to do with christianity. Some of them would be ending my own life and disobeying laws. I think religion makes my family morally connected. It was also religion that forgave me for my sins. I was able to pray at our place of worship, which is the church, to ask for foriveness in the wrong I had committed. For example, regretting something awful I had said to my friend and wanting a peaceful relationship with her again.
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