1. In Chapter 15, I liked reading about
the topic of religion. In the book, it talks about how adolescents think and
use religion as a personal tool, to be used in difficult times. This makes the
adolescent’s beliefs to be egocentric. When surveying 3,360 13-17 year olds and
their parents, researchers had found that 71 percent followed the same religion
as their parents. Also, they found that 16 percent said that they were not
religious, but went to church and prayed. These statistics of adolescents was
not too surprising to me, mainly because of their age and how our parents
largely affect our beliefs. Personally, my religious beliefs and values are
deeply rooted in Christianity, simply because that is how my parents raised my
siblings and I.
An example of the religion beliefs of adolescents being intuitive, is
when a girl was asked about why she was religious, she replied saying that it
was so that she would not be around devil worshippers and negativity. Of
course, the researchers highly doubted that socializing with devil worshippers
was an actual issue that was occurring in the girl’s life. So because religion
is not used for actual issues in daily life, religious beliefs in adolescents
were most likely to be intuitive. Growing up, I also did not use my religious
beliefs to tackle actual issues in my life. But now that I am older and have a
better understanding of my religion, I utilize my beliefs to help me be a
better daughter, sister, friend, and overall good person.
2.
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