What if we dare to question our beliefs? - Part I

garybilbao (62)in Project HOPE • 2 months ago

You grew up with a first and last name that you didn't choose. In fact, you didn't choose your parents either.

You grew up believing that you had to go to school, college, then college, get a degree and find a job at a good company and work for about 25 years until retirement.

You also grew up thinking that you had to spend your old age doing nothing, taking care of your grandchildren, sewing, or reading the newspapers in a rocking chair drinking coffee.

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The issue of grandchildren is obvious, because they also taught you that you had to get married, and if it was in the church, the better. Then you had to have children (the greater the number, the greater the blessing) and dedicate your life to them. Marriage, as they teach, is for life, to live happily ever after. Some even call you a sinner for divorcing and ending a relationship in which there is everything but happiness and life.

Speaking of sins, you have also been taught that there is a supreme being called God, who created the world and controls everything, to whom you owe respect, love and blind and absolute obedience. That it is love and always takes care of you, but that in addition to being love, it is also a devouring fire and punishes disobedience to its commandments with suffering or eternal death (of course, the type of punishment will depend on the religion or type of Christianity you profess).

As for death, you have grown up, of course, running from it, rejecting it with every fiber of your being. You have been told that death is the worst thing that can happen to a human being, and that is why you fear it and do not want to die. You want to prolong your existence as long as possible.