What religion you are tends to be directly related to the time you are born into or the county right?

Birdy is my real name: What religion you are tends to be directly related to the time you are born into or the county right?
For example, if you were born into ancient Egypt, you would follow the ancient Egyptian religion, and those born today in say Texas, would follow Christianity, as those in Iran would be Muslim.

So is it not ever so slightly obvious that religion is all just made up nonsense?
Surely if there was a god we would all have the same religion by now?

Answers and Views:

Answer by Verusanct
and u thinking there should be one God is clearly product of you still being brainwashed despite ur greatest efforts :] lol think about it! why is monotheism so much better than polytheism? they’re both fairy tales and equally valid in that case.

Answer by Steph S
lol you do realise that ‘ancient egypt’ is egypt 4000 years ago, you cant be ‘born into’ ancient egypt. you can be born in egypt today, and i believe they are christians.

Answer by ?
No, it’s wrong. The true Christian faith has spread all over the world. There are billions of Christians of every tongue in every tribe of the world. Your assumption is clearly false.

Answer by JefFlyingV
In general the family you are born in determines how you are indoctrinated into a religion.

Answer by Giz (cheezburgerz4 Ceiling Cat)
You’re right! I was born under a ceiling, which explains why I worship Ceiling Cat.

Giz

Answer by B Knott Wildered
Perhaps because of the depth I sometimes get into while answering a question I have some difficulty submitting them at times. I will try to submit this in sections and delete this part when I am done.

Your first two sentences are absolutely correct. Your “So ….” conclusion is very flawed, and your final assumption is more correct than you know in a way you never dreamed possible.

Religions all started out as the “Gospel Truth,” pun intended. Over the years due to slight misunderstandings piled on slight misunderstandings all religions from Islam on back have become more and more myth and superstition. Christianity is well on the way to becoming another “Ancient Greek, Roman and Norse” myth and religion. As far as made up nonsense, it is a great deal of nonsense, but you seem to be implying it is intentionally made up. If so, that is where we part company. I have studied it carefully and for any number of reasons firmly believe it is at least mostly sincere even though sincerely wrong. As I mentioned, the same could be said of the other historical religions.

The answer to your last one calls for some explanation. If you want to indulge in a dialogue I am more than willing and ready to do so, but for now I will make some very supportable but in this answer unsupported statements and contentions. God gives us a choice whether to believe in Him or not and how much to follow our beliefs. He gives us enough evidence to make an intelligent decision, but the choice is ours whether to even look at that evidence or not. If God were to do something as obvious and miraculous as Jesus floating down on a cloud or people disappearing in the Rapture, that would take away our right of self determination. Instead of using our intellect we would in essence be forced to believe. All the same religion by now? In a very real sense we do. It is just that it is recent enough that not everyone has heard of it and even many that have heard of it have not yet taken it seriously, but as in the words of the song by Bob Dylan, The Times They Are A-Changin’. It is up to you what you do, and I have to watch my words because there are a lot of people who disagree with me and report me for the least infraction of some at times seemingly very inconsistently applied and in my view not always completely rational and reasonable rules and guidelines. Do you think it is time for peace? Do you have an open mind? If the answer is yes to either or both, read on.

I am a member of the Baha’i Faith. Getting to that point was a quarter of a century journey with a sojourn of several years as a staunch atheistic Agnostic. (Raised Southern Baptist, started asking questions by age eight.) I ultimately rejected all religions because I saw more reasons to reject them than believe them. I became an atheistic Agnostic because I felt I had sufficiently proven it to myself. I was not looking for something to believe in, I had already found it, or should I say proven it. Or so I thought. I have several examples indicating that when I say I readily see things others miss it is far from empty braggadocio, likewise my claim I am a very deep, profound thinker. Just recently there was a question I will give you a link to that shows I do not miss much, and there are others as well demonstrating my claims. I do this not to brag, but to show why I should be taken seriously. I for several years had an incentive of a five figured sum in US dollars. Prove the Baha’i Faith wrong or show me something I missed and the money is yours. More than one Atheist ended up embracing the Baha’i Faith since I first offered that challenge, but no one ever tried to claim the money. Here are some links from my Q&A’s.

Is this not the dumbest thing ever said?
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Faith, is it self hypnosis?
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Are you certain there is a God?
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What Kind of Religious Customer are You?
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For Christians open to serious debate only., Origin of god?
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(This one got me blocked by the asker) Do atheists need to remember that all religion is the enemy to which no mercy should be shown?
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But back to us all having the same religion now, unless it is something that happens suddenly and all at once, it is a transition. Few things in life are suddenly and all at once. Religions becoming major ones never has been one minute it does not exist and the next it has millions of followers. Compared to the other religions, however, the Bahá’í Faith has experienced remarkable growth. If as some others have done you wish to argue it is simply because of modern-day communications, then I will ask you to explain its demographics if it does not also make sense. No one has been able to do that. While it still is not accepted by the whole world, I would argue it is just a matter of time. Consider this from one of our web sites. But first a brief quote.

The Jews await the Messiah, the Christians the return of Christ, the Moslems the Mahdi, the Buddhists the fifth Buddha, the Zoroastrians Shah Bahram, the Hindus the reincarnation of Krishna, and the Atheists – a better social organization! Baha’u’llah represents all these, and thus destroys the rivalries and the enmities of the different religions; reconciles them in their primitive purity, and frees them from the corruption of dogmas and rites.

(Abdu’l-Baha, Tablets of Abdu’l-Baha v1, p. vii)

Now this from www.bahai.org:

A Global Community
Women and men gather in Garoua Boulai, a rural region of eastern Cameroon, to discuss how they can work together to alleviate some of the burdens placed on the women with regard to child care. In Cambridge, Massachusetts, scholars come together to exchange ideas on the topic “Anarchy into Order: Understanding Humanity’s Role and Destiny.” People on Goodenough Island, Papua New Guinea, escort a flower-strewn platform carrying a new Book of Laws to their village, ushering it in with respect and joyful songs. In Panchgani, India, young boys are learning how to plant and tend tree seedlings in the course of their studies in sustainable development at a locally run institute. A youth group performs a dance about the terrible consequences of racism to schoolchildren in a school auditorium in British Columbia, Canada. In Colombia, South America, a conga musical group imbues its traditional Latin rhythms with a spiritual message about the unity of humanity, to the delight of listeners at open-air venues. A team of medical specialists from the United Kingdom “twins” efforts with doctors at a hospital in Bulgaria, offering assistance in training local practioners. These people, though they have in all probability never met one another, share a united view of the world and its future, as well as their own role in shaping that future. They are members of the Bahá’í International Community.

The Bahá’í community, comprising members of the Bahá’í Faith from all over the globe, now numbers some five million souls. [Note: These statistics are out of date. There are now over seven million of us.] They represent 2,112 ethnic and tribal groups and live in over 116,000 localities in 188 independent countries and 45 dependent territories or overseas departments. What was once regarded by some as an obscure, tiny sect is now recognized by the Encyclopedia Britannica as the second-most widely spread independent religion in the world, after Christianity. Its membership cuts across all boundaries of class and race, governing itself through the establishment of local and national elected bodies known as Spiritual Assemblies. Haifa, Israel, is the site of its international center and the seat of its world-governing council, known as the Universal House of Justice.

The worldwide Bahá’í community may well be the most diverse and widespread body of people on earth. It is also among the world’s most unified organizations, a feature that is perhaps its most distinguishing characteristic.

Bahá’ís the world over come from all religious backgrounds: Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Jain, Jew, Muslim, Sikh, Zoroastrian, animist, and non-religious. Yet they study a common set of sacred writings, observe a unifying code of religious laws, and look to a single international administrative system for continuing guidance.

Their sense of unity goes beyond a shared theology. It is expressed in an abiding commitment to a global program for moral, spiritual and social progress that represents many of the finest ideals of civilization.

Promoting equality of women and men is a primary goal, as are ending racial and ethnic strife, promoting economic justice for all peoples, and ensuring access to good education for all. The community eschews all forms of superstition, emphasizes the importance of an unfettered search for scientific and religious truth, and sets for its followers the goal of meeting the highest moral standards. World peace and the establishment of a united global commonwealth have been and remain distinguishing concerns.