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I know some very religious people. Two of them I are preists. One is very open to others beliefs. Buddhist, Christian (any denomination), Muslim, Jewish, agnostic, athiests... The other is some what more traditional. He has the more there is only one god and the Muslim, Jewish, and Christian god are the same god. In my family one side (my mothers) was never very religious. It has to do with a mean rabbi who was also a bookie (or something) that my grandpa (who was a kid) hated. When the cops came and took the rabbi away my grandpa didn't look into religion until he was 80. And when he did it was more in an academic way. His father was a butcher at non kosher butcher's shop... My father side is more complex. I am a jew my father and his family are roman cathlic. Most of the people in my father side of the family are not religious at all. Though a few (a sister and her father in law) are very religios. She wont even alow her mother to talk about things like psychic mediums in her presence.
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No (look at hinduism it could bee said there one god that every thing is a part of in that religion, and other non western religion they don't have the same concept of a god). No (look at all the missionary work, all the religious conversions that have and continue to happen). Hope, Stupidity, Conformity, Threat of force or violence, or for me I was born a jew and have found no religion that i see as superior to betray my jewish heritage (Though I have a realy big opposition to most christian denominations...)
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