RELIGION

Where did religion come from? Was it made up by some people that just decided that they needed something to believe in so that they wouldnt face there fears or was that certain religion just made by "god" and it all exsists? Well, I'm one of the few people who are athiest and have often wondered what makes someone pick there religion and completely believe it. Why is it that some people are jewish or christian or whatever? Most dont even choose it, they are raised that way.
Well, first off I would like to tell you my personal experience with religion. My mom was raised a jewish girl- going to hebrew school three times a week and temple too. My dad was raised a catholic boy- not heavily, but just celebrating christmas and stuff and going to confession sometimes. When they met they decided to raise there kids christian. So thats exactly what happened with me and my siblings. We went to church every sunday and than sunday school and we were told the ways of christianity. When I was in third grade my parents got a divorce and me, my mom, and my siblings left Connecticut and moved to Arizona a year later. My dad stayed home to live with his girlfriend in New York where he still remains. So anyway, one of my moms dearest childhood best friends lived in Arizona to and she was a born again christian, so she heavily pushed things on us. We continued to go to church on sunday. A year after we moved my mom realized that my intuition about her friend was true about how she didnt like me when she called me a liar and than my mom one about a completely different matter. My mom began going to church less and less often, but continued to take me because I wanted to go. One day I decided to ask her why she wasnt going anymore and she began to cry telling me how she just couldnt believe it. You see, in the christian religion it states that if you havent excepted jesus as your savior than you would be damned to hell. I asked my mom what was so bad about that because I was still to young to understand. She said well my family is jewish and I cannot believe that they are all in hell. (most people in her family were dead including her parents.) She opened my eyes to a world where god wasnt a good person, where he damned completely nice people to hell just for not believing. I couldnt believe in someone like that and he became less and less real to me.
So now that you know my story, you know where I'm coming from when I ask why so many people believe in something that may or may not be true. Put this into perspective- what if when you die, you find out that you were wrong....
~seaspotgirl~