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[quote=Anonymous]The lack of answers is proof that it's an unanswerable question, not that religious people all secretly know their religion is bunk but are in denial (although that is obviously what PP will believe regardless).

What is your favorite food?  A food you could eat every day and never grow tired of?  If you never tried that food until your adult years and in fact were fed a steady diet of a very different food during your formative years, would it still be your favorite?  That's an unanswerable question.  It 's not even really that thought-provoking because it's so out of line with reality.

Would I be the same religion?  Well, this religion has had a huge impact on who my parents are and how they live.  It has changed them for the better, in ways that, I believe, are intrinsic to this specific understanding of God and the universe.  So if they weren't this religion, what would they be?  Am I pretending they are atheist?  Another religion?  If so, which one?  How did they come to that religion (my parents' search for this faith is an integral part of their identities)?

What about the other people who were teachers and friends who share my faith?  Am I assuming that I have parallel people in my new hypothetical life and faith, or that I have none?  How would that impact the person I become?

I have stuck with this religion because I know what those moments of feeling close to somehing divine feel like.  I have sought them out and have found my faith to bring me the most occurences of them.  Am I assuming that I have those same experiences, but with different names for them?  Or none?  I can believe that my faith is "true" and "right for me" without also believing that it will be right for ALL seekers of truth.

So if I were a comepletely different person, with completely different family life, relationships and personal experiences, would I still A) seek spiritual truth and B) find this specific manifestation of truth rings clear and true for me?  I have no idea.  But I can say with certainty that I am glad to be the person I am.  My non-hypothetical life has led me to great joy and peace and happiness and I wish you the same.[/quote]

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