UPELIPM

WHAT TO BELIEVE IN?

Why is always there something above human beings? Something that is sometimes difficult to believe in. Most people believe something that they can’t see or even imagine. In fact, the way people believe in God it’s totally different between them, so, how is God? Why can’t we believe in something clear or palpable to make our beliefs more accurate? Why can’t we believe in human beings?

In some cultures the power of nature was a reason to believe in. Changes in the weather, climate and even stars. Then the light age appeared and human started to see things in a different way. They questioned everything they could to show human being’s nature in a clearer way. Religions weren’t the exception and these kind of questions appeared: what do we do here and why? Why is loving so important? Why is important believing in God? Therefore, many religions came from the first ones.
Now, I wonder what religion we can believe in. There are many religions, so much in what to believe in and many people who say that their religions is the only one which will bring us or make us see what we are looking forward to.
About two months ago I watched a woman dying on a TV program. She died because she needed a blood transfusion but her religion didn’t allow her to do that. Is it fair? Is so important a religion that it doesn’t matter if human beings die for it? I don’t understand! Yet…
When I was a child, about 10, my mother asked me to do the first communion and i refused to do it, of course she wanted an explanation about my decision but i didn’t give her one, because I was scared she punished me, because one of the pictures i had about God was as the punisher, if I do something that is wrong for the rest of the people who believe in him i will be punished or sent straight to the hell, that’s scary for a child, isn’t it?
I think that the reasons i refused my family’s religion only concern to me and everyone have to find their ones in order to make their beliefs unbreakable.
I don’t belong to any religion, does it mean that i am a bad person?

WRITTEN BY: Leonett. Gabriel.
E-Mail: lgabrielv_5000@hotmail.com

UPEL-IPM V SEM