Fabiola Landa
Professor Weston
REL 2011
16 June 2015
Religion can be as simple or as complex as one makes it. For example, if you are born
into family that practices a certain religion, there’s not much complex about it. It’s what you’re
told, it’s all you know, and in same cases it may be the only thing you’re surrounded by. Religion
becomes “complex” as soon as you begin to wonder, ask questions, and compare it to something
you don’t know much about. Young Jewish kids may attend Hebrew school every Thursday and
memorize parts of the Torah for their bar mitzvah, but they never ask why. Catholic children may
grow up in Catholic schools and go to church every Sunday and sing the Our Father in unison
because that’s what they are taught. Although our religions may act as roots in our life, when
growing up people change, and so do cultures. In reality, although the world is an enormous
