The Importance of Following Up One's Own Beliefs.
The ongoing Israel-Palestine crisis has clearly shown to the world that the World War III, if happens, would be a religious war. The situation exacerbated as the territorial dispute in the region has been extended to the controversy over different faiths - this eventually resulted in widening the rift. What they seemed to have forgotten is the true meaning of religion. How ironical it is for these religious believers who actually engage in constant terrors that put many lives at stake? In this regard, having a formal religion is not mandatory for a person to be religious because religion depends on how each individual interprets it, and besides, there have been many false religions reported that really have gone against moral values. .
To start off, the term religion connotes anything that people devote to, and its meaning can be changed depending on the person. In other words, religion can be interpreted differently according to each person, and that it can be anything as long as they believe. For instance, a devoted Methodist would think going to the Methodist church and abiding by the rules is his true religion while a man crazy for his girlfriend might think she is his religion. Therefore, a person should not be pressured to follow a certain formal religion to be religious because religion can be anything as long as they believe in it, and that a formal religion is merely a nutshell of a group of people with similar beliefs. .
In addition, there exist so many false religions that go against moral values and that having a formal religion is more and more proven to be incompetent. For example, the story of a church leader who engaged in numerous sexual activities with young women saying that having sexual intercourse with him enables them to go to heaven became one of hot issues in Korea a few years ago. The sad reality is that many clergymen are also known to have engaged in activities that really "cap the climax.
