How is growing up outside of religion a more difficult path to freedom of religion than growing up within one?
Wouldn't growing up in one religion be more constraining to her with regard of all other religions?
There is one step from being non-religious to any religion, but to move from one religion to another you have on you the burden of having to leave your current religion.
I'm a sample of one so take this with a giant, highly critical grain of thought, but for me, being raised within a religion gave me the freedom to see that all religions are fundamentally the same.
They have different names for things and in some cases, certain stories resonate better with me. But deep down, the Zen expression 'ten thousand forms, one suchness' absolutely applies.
My phone is about to die, so I'll cut it off, though I suspect that I'll revisit this throughout the day!
By the way, thanks for your perspective and the questions it made me start thinking about. As I mentioned in my original post, I will likely change my mind about everything several times.
- You get birds that eat them.
- You don't want to get said birds.