What factors of your native culture have informed your religious world view? Explain the impact of these factors.

A question of this nature beckons thy soul of thy being. Asking in essence what is it that makes you who you are. This is not just a simple yes or no question, because in essence what is being asked is “what makes you who you are and how has this influenced your perception of the world.” In answering such a question all factors must be considered as that is what makes you who you are and allows you to view the world as you do. Your perspective on the world is not something that can instantly be explained, or even understood. Perspective if it was a formula would look something along the lines of (experience + time =perspective.) Seeing as time is constant, and perspective is the result, experience is left as the ‘x’ factor.

So to begin, the factors of my native culture that have informed my religious worldview are the experiences that have occurred throughout my life. Now although it is in actuality the cumulative-exponential collection of your experiences that leads to perspective……..

Now that ^^^^ is one of the ways that we could look at this question, taking it technically and saying 2+2=4. So instead of looking at it technically, I’m going to use the KISS method.

KISS version: What has influenced my religious worldview is my religion. At some point upon immigrating to what is now the United States we (my ancestors) were of an Amish and Mennonite basis. Somewhere along the lines between those who immigrated and me, we moved from the Amish and Mennonite beliefs to Nazarene. I grew up going to church, attending the same church as my grandparents. I went to Sunday school, and other church events. It is from these childhood events that my perspective was shaped. Time passed (as time does) and with it we moved, switched churches, moved again, switched churches, and continued to switch churches until we found one that was a good fit. I continued to develop and establish my perspective, and do this through God.
My religious worldview hasn’t come from my parents, or my grandparents, friends, or any of the numerous churches that I have attended in my life. Although all of these in someway provided contribution to this perspective it is through none of them that my religious worldview was developed. This perspective, the lenses that I see the world through, was attained not through these earthly things but through God and the experiences that He has allowed me to experience and grow through.