When I was younger, I believed in Christianity and everything it stood for, because I hadn’t ever been exposed to anything else. Once I started to learn that there were a few problems with Christianity, it wasn’t long before I wasn’t a Christian anymore.

There are other religions around the world that seem to have the same effect on people. Do you belong to a particular religion, because your choices are limited for some reason? There are a lot of people through out history and living today who follow certain religious guidelines and beliefs, simply because of the people that they are surrounded by.

Think about this for a moment, I believed that Jesus was God and that he died for our sins until I was about 17 years old. Before I turned 18 years old, I thought like most Christians today. I was convinced that Jesus was God and anyone who spoke against him was either mean or evil.

The moment that I decided to do a little more research about Christianity and other religions, it didn’t take me long to find out that there were others like me. Some of the greatest leaders in history weren’t Christians and didn’t belong to any religious organization. How could this be? Wasn’t God suppose to only give good things to people that believed in him? This didn’t make sense to me then and doesn’t make sense to me now.

I don’t know which religions are right and which ones are wrong, but I do believe that what ever religion you believe in, could be a stepping stone in the right direction. Remember I used the word could be in the last sentence. It could also be a hindrance.

I believe that Christianity and other religions that I have studied are just stepping stones on my spiritual ladder towards enlightenment. You don’t need to test your faith and it wouldn’t be evil, to learn more about your religion and others. You could be living in a box surrounded by stepping stones that need to be positioned in the right place, before you can climb out of your old beliefs and on to the next ones.