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NerdyKeith's avatar

Religious, which is most important to you; your religion or your nationality?

Asked by NerdyKeith (5489points) March 14th, 2016
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Judi's avatar

My faith is more important to me than my nationality. I wouldn’t attach that to a denomination or probably not even a religion, but the approach to life that stems from my relationship with God defines me. I would still be this person regardless of the country I lived in.

zenvelo's avatar

Similar to what @Judi said. My spirituality is more important than my nationality or the religion label someone may put on me.

Bill1939's avatar

Where and to whom one is born is beyond choice. It is a common human trait to become emotionally attached to family and kin, community and faith, state and country, usually with little or no reasoning involved beyond rationalization.

For those who seek an intellectual as well as an emotional perspective, the distinctions between their attachments and those of others gradually disappear. Boundaries between them and us erode as one becomes aware that nothing and no one is superior or inferior and that the only relevant difference is suffering.

Neither religion or nationality is as important as acting with compassion for those whose travails have drawn their consciousness inward and have not learned or have lost sight of the oneness of creation.

Espiritus_Corvus's avatar

My “religion” is so undefined as to be non-existent and therefore never comes up in conversation. Plus, people here tend to mind their own business, unlike people back in the States. My nationality only comes up when I have to show my passport and in initial conversations with foreign nationals—of which I am presently surrounded. I suppose it would be my nationality then.

Pandora's avatar

Neither is as important to me. The order of things for me fall, God, family, my morals, with, myself and mankind and nature being tied.

Dutchess_III's avatar

Neither. My family is #1.

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