If Mr. Shapiro were able to
convince me and convert my current belief to that of which he proposes, I do
not think I would want to know. I wouldn’t want him to convince me of one of
the many God’s existence and of the corresponding belief system because
personally I feel as if things were no longer in my control. I am not a very
religious person, I follow the “cafeteria plan” philosophy that Mr. Shapiro
mentioned in class. I pick and choose what I belief in thus forming my own sort
of belief system, and his convincing me of anything other than that would alter
my life drastically, just as it did to those who heard of Darwin’s theory
for the first time. Everything I had ever believed in would become a lie thus
causing me to second guess every decision I had ever made throughout the course of my life. My freedom of choice
would be gone as I would most probably believed that my future was planned out
by this God and he would lead me in whatever path I am destined to follow.
I also do not like the idea of him
convincing me to belief in this faith. The fact he must convince me proves in
my mind that he is unsure of the belief system himself. As said in class,
people try to convert others because numbers equal power; the larger the mass
of believers the more power one can contain. This concept is unsettling as there are several examples that prove that this method of conversion is usually followed by negative results in our society.
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