We are but a product and result of choice.
Our existence is often incorrectly attributed to chance only, choice had, infact, a major role in shaping how we emerged as the leading species on earth.
We exercise, through freewill, choice, on a daily basis.
What we wear, eat, do, is all in a way a resultant from our experiences, but the end point being, we have the power to choose to not act a certain way, not eat certain things and not wear specific clothes/colors.
WHY then, must we not exercise this choice when it comes to the one and probably ONLY factor that majorly shapes the way we make decisions and live our lives?
Im talking about religion.
If you think you've chosen your religion, you're probably wrong.
Have you really?
Inorder to have chosen the religion you're in, you would, by definition, need to know about the alternatives, else, your choice would be the result of incorrect/incomplete information.
Most of us follow the religion of our parents. A generation that was brainwashed into a false sense of security and complacence.
But today, we're in the information age, where every bit of knowledge is available at your fingertips.
Why then do we subscribe blindly to a religion without studying what we could've been? Because you parents say so? because else, you wouldn't fit into your existing social circles anymore? is that honestly a good enough reason?
You could secretly be a Buddhist or a sun worshiper, but for the knowledge of the religion. How many of you know enough to judge or even talk about another religion? Islam, hinduism and christanity.. Does the general population know anything apart from these religions? Religions that sometimes even predate all these by thousands of years...
Even as a consumer buying a product that would not last forever, you check for alternatives and best prices. But it is indeed sad many of us settle for the first religion, often one that we will remain faithful to forever, to comes our way without checking for alternatives first..
