Modern Religious Experience: Reflection Question #1: "According to Mircea Eliade religion has 'not vanished without a trace; [it] has contributed toward making us what we are today and so, after..."
My religious life has been unusual. I've met many people who hold going to the same church every Sunday very sacred to them. Being the child of a diplomat, life is not so consistent. I've flitted from church to church, all generally Christian but never the same denomination. Depending on where we lived, we had to adjust and choose a church that was OK, very rarely have we found a church where we liked everything about it. Very appropriately, the one church I absolutely loved was in the same tradition I was baptized in, Methodist.
My mom was raised in the AME (African Methodist Episcopal) style, a church where bursting out into song is encouraged and fainting frequent. AME churches are often subject to parodies of a "typical black church". My dad was raised Catholic, but after his parents split, religion faded into the background as other family emergencies took its place. I don't ever want to lose my faith, and i feel as though family tragedies are a big catalyst for send you flying right out of religion. I hope i can strengthen my religious attitudes to where such occurrences would not deter my faith, but expand it.
