Questioning Your Beliefs Can Lead You to the Truth - Creative Religious Thinking

If you lived on a desert island in the middle of nowherereligions all over the place and all you need to do is
and there wasn't any information on the island, youstart looking for it. The information is there and you're
could make up your own religion without anynot on a desert island, so there aren't any excuses. If
competition. No one would ever question anything thatyou really want to know the truth about your religion,
you did and you wouldn't have any problemsyou're going to have to study it and others.
convincing yourself that your religion represented theI couldn't understand religions like Buddhism and
truth.Hinduism, when I was 18 years old and didn't know
I guess something like that would be okay, if you livedanything about them or that they even existed. Now
somewhere, where there wasn't any information.these religions make more sense to me, simply
There wouldn't be any problems, if you lived within abecause I understand a little bit about them. With that
community, where everyone believed the same thingsaid, learning about Buddhism and Hinduism helped me
and never questioned anything.to realize some of the problems and contradictions
I don't think you would ever have any problems aboutwithin Christianity. It might not make much sense now,
your religious beliefs, if you lived inside of a building withbut by learning about other religion's, it helped me with
out any access to the world around you. Am I startingmy studies on Christianity.
the makes sense or am I just babbling here. I hopeYou might not find everything that you want to learn
you're getting the point, loud and clear.about if you remain in the same community and
We don't live in a world like that today, but it wasn't likesurround yourself with like-minded individuals. If you
this 1000 or 2000 years ago. Today we can read andreally want to learn more, you should seek the
write and communicate with people all over the world.knowledge from other religions and people who don't
We can share information about one religion andshare your religious beliefs.
gather information from another, within minutes if notYou shouldn't believe everything that you read, but you
seconds.should look for the truth in the things that you do
The world we live in today is full of information aboutchoose to read.