Religion Reflection Paper

Religion is an interesting word. It has eight letters, three syllables, and countless meanings. If you asked twenty people what their definition of religion is, you would get twenty very different responses. Religion has an impact on your principles, your morals, and how you react to others. Everyone has their own way of practicing, sharing, and learning about their religion. It affects everyone of us everyday and is quite possibly the most important topic in our social lives. I do not think you can accurately define religion in just one or two sentences. It has so many complex aspects and different angles to take into consideration. Religion is what you believe in. It is what you practice and put into your everyday life. It changes the way you interact with others and yourself. It impacts the ways you spend your free time and even the way you dress. The religion you practice changes you. Religion is a belief system, but so much more than that. Your religion is how you act, think, and speak. In a way, you are becoming your religion. You mold yourself to fit in with that religion and try to wrap your mind around the thought process that it has. You are

As a young child, I learned about Christianity from Sunday School. As I grew up, we would learn a little bit about religion in history classes. However it wasn’t really enough to even get the main idea of the religion. Then, in the eighth and ninth grades I received a little bit more education on Christianity (mostly Methodist) from my confirmation class. I learned a little bit about other religions. We even went to a Catholic church and to a Jewish synagogue for a service to learn a little bit about those other religions. However, it was mainly based around our own religion. The teachings I have had were both formal and informal. They might have been a little more formal, but there were still a few informal