I remember as a child growing up in Sierra Leone, I use to have long talks with my paternal grandfather about faith. I grew up with a Muslim father and Christian mother. Imagine going studying the Koran on Fridays and going to church on Sundays. I was never pressured by my family to choose a particular path. I am the last child and only girl out of four children. My brothers decided to follow my fathers religion, but I decided to explore both until I could figure it out on my own. The only requirement in my fathers home was before sunrise everyone must arise and pray to whomever or whatever it was you believed in as long as you prayed.
I am a liberal Christian now and I ended up marrying a Muslim. I believe that faith can be connected to religion but having faith does not require any religious support. I know the first question you may have is why I chose to become a Christian, I refuse to answer that because I am not into talking about religion, I prefer to talk about a subject that we can all connect with.I have studied the Koran, the Bible and as an adult the doctrines of Hindus, Buddhists and Sikhism. The ultimate goal for each religion is gain enlightenment of or eternal life.
Faith is when you have ultimate belief of confidence in one thing or person.Humans whom are ultimately happy believe in a higher power and trust in that being bigger than themselves to handle any tribulation that they are faced with as was discussed in my last post. Faith is the belief that one day your thoughts and your hopes will manifest itself. Positive thinking ends in positive results and vice verse. We are responsible for our own aura but may need assistance in dealing with the lows that life may deal us.
Faith is often tested, for example not getting a promotion or failing by one point. The question is religion or no religion can you look inside yourself and trust that there is something better awaiting you or on the next test your performance will be better? This task is not an easy one but if you practice it eventually you start to believe and your circumstances will change.
work cited:
http://www.progressivehumanism.com/progressive-humanism/the-nature-of-faith/
I think you're going to have a really difficult time telling readers that after talking religion and family life for two paragraphs, that you refuse to talk religion, then you go ahead and talk religion! That is pretty circular but it seems a bit dishonest. Why approach a subject with readers and then tell them they don't deserve to read a discussion of your choice of topic fully and openly?
ReplyDeleteDo you worry that readers will debate your choice? Does that even matter? Think about your goals for this post. What do you want readers to take away from your discussion of religion and choice? That is a powerful position to be in: to be the daughter of two religious traditions and to have a family so open and understanding that you are fully supported in your choice? You set this post up so well that you made me want to learn more. Then you abruptly shut the conversation down when you seemed to get uncomfortable.
Read this post again, and imagine yourself as a reader: what takeaway do you get from the huge switch right in the middle?