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Discussion: Is believing in God based on geography?

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OK, this is a controversial thing to talk about but I can't help but notice a lot of... patterns with belief based on geography. For example, around 79.8% of people in India are Hindu, over 90% of people in Thailand practice Buddhism, and literally 96-97% of people in Pakistan is Muslim! Now of course, we, at least I'd assume most of us, live in America, which has a 62-68% Christian population, and there's data that 67-76% of all of Europe combined are identified Christian. Now what is my point here? Well, I can't help but notice, based on geography, it kinda determines what you believe in! Now I know the argument of "well just because you're in a certain environment doesn't determine your free will and what you actually choose to believe in" and though that is true to a certain extent, I can't help but feel where you are born really, REALLY has an impact on, well, where you spend for eternity? Like if I were in Thailand, according to the DATA, I have a really, really high percent chance to be practicing Buddhism RIGHT NOW. I might be at a Buddhist temple. And that's what concerns me, because thank God I'm in America and believe the true God and have a relationship with Jesus Christ Who took away all our sins, because if I were, well for example, in Pakistan, I don't really know what will happen to me eternity-wise. I'm kind of just yapping now but I really feel as though it's unfair that where we are born has an impact on our ETERNITY, which is unsettling to me. So, how can this be explained? And for those people who are in those countries where the religion practiced is not the true relationship with God, that is, how can we make sense of how one is even suppose to believe in the Holy Trinity in a country that goes the opposite way? And, is believing in God, the Holy Trinity, really based on geography?


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