Survival of Faith and Religion through Different Cultures and Societies

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The transmission of religion and faith has survived through various different cultures and societies. Religion and faith have both evolved either into more branches or a completely different ideology or thought process. These new creations of branches or new ideologies change the course of thinking and provide new outlooks on life. For instance, baptisms in Christianity mean a “salvation” and rite of passage to follow in the footsteps of God while in the Islamic religion a baptism is closely correlated with a Wudu, which prepares Muslims for worship at any time to Allah. What these examples show are that people strictly follow “obligations” in order to fulfill their religious ideology. Religion, in my opinion, is confined too strictly to regulations and a process that is not externalized to an individual. The conception of faith is more personalized than religious practices with the open mind and “free-lancer” aspects.
When an individual looks up or ponders the word “faith” they find explanations like immense support of God. When I ponder the word “faith” I think of something that supports a purpose either in a negative or positive way. In Western society, the statement “I have faith in you” means a different thing for everybody. My definition of faith does not match anybody else because no person shares the same cognitive set up from one another and everyone has a different way of supporting something to gain a sense of “happiness”. This is where faith can be more personalized with the open mind than with religious practices. For example, if a Christian went to church and tried to enhance beliefs inside the religion to fit personal needs, they would be considered “unholy” or a sinner. The concept of faith allows for the belief ...

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...uits them best like a style of shoe. Maybe the child is uncomfortable with a certain type of shoe while he is comfortable in another. Faith and free lancing is about the comfort of an individual without forcing them to be brain washed into the beliefs to live life through the religious guidelines. The free lancing aspect shows that faith is more personalized than religious practices.
As a famous band once said, “Any way you want it, that’s the way you need it”. This lyric should be the case towards people when it comes to implementing faith in their lives. Faith provides a personalization through free-lancing and the open mind aspect to go through life discovering happiness. Religious practices bond you to a set of beliefs and standards that affect the whole aspect of people’s lives when people should make their own decisions on what they think is right and wrong.

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