If you’re filling out an information form of some kind, and it asks you, what is your religion, what do you answer? You would put down Catholic, or Protestant, or Jew, or you may be more specific, and you may say Methodist, Baptist, Lutheran, Episcopalian, even Unity, but what does this mean? Can you define your religion? Could you tell the difference between your church, and the one across the street? It is doubtful if many persons could except that perhaps you believe in baptism by dunking, and they believe it by sprinkling.

For many persons, religion is inherited by family tradition. I was a Methodist born, and a Methodist bred, and when I die I’ll be a Methodist dead. Often when we hear the expression, “I’ve gotten religion.” What is meant by that? Does it mean that the person has developed a new feeling toward life, or as is more likely that he subscribed to a particular collection of church dogma?

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