Religion is a belief in a higher power in an organized manor. To have religion is to have faith in something. Faith is needed in life because it makes people feel like they have a reason for being on earth. As if they are here to serve a purpose. Faith comes natural to most people, but is expressed best in a form of organized religion. I think that this should be taught at a young age so that children are given the education about the subject. It should continue until they are old enough to make a mature decision on whether or not they want to believe in a religion. Even if the parents are not religious they should not make the decision for their children. Although as a child grows older they may pick up on religion if they choose without any guided direction from their parents through their own personal beliefs, it is less likely they will decide to make that choice because they could think that they have gone this far without any religion. The reason I believe they should teach religion at a young age is because religion helps increase faith. I do not believe in any religion. I feel that it is not important in what you have faith in, but just that you have faith. Religion helps define faith. As a child I was put into a catechism class and I was taught Catholicism through Christianity. Now that I have grown older I have made the decision not to go to church because I believe that with thousands of different religions I can’t see how one could be right. The point is that I came to that decision because I was educated about religion. I don’t believe that religion should be used to explain the unexplainable. If a child has a question to his mother about why humans have hearts and the mother answers that god gave it to us so that we can love, I think that the mother is wrong. There is a scientific explanation to this. Every religion has stories about how and why things were created, but we must remember tha...
