Are Religions Genetic?

Somebody in a group I subscribed to, started this thread. I think it is worth sharing here.

M wrote:
Are Religions Genetic?

N wrote:
The Nazi's thought so.

M wrote:
you probably didnt understand the question.
or maybe I was not clear in asking
Let me rephrase.
Are you free to change your religion? or is it innate?

A wrote:

Hi M and fellow Mensans,

I think religion is genetic and religions are not genetic.

I said religion is genetic because human believes in God or if not God, other means of Divinity, or supernaturals is intrinsic, it is human nature. Stephen R Covey in his book, entitled The 8th habit from effectiveness to greatness, wrote "spiritual intelligence is the central and most fundamental of all the intelligence, because it becomes the source of guidance of other 3 intelligence" (source: Covey, Stephen R, The 8th Habit from Effectiveness to Greatness. New York: Simon Schuster Inc, 2004). He puts Spiritual Intelligence above IQ and EQ.

Religions are not genetic because a religion is seldom exclusively for certain race or skin color. It looks predetermined by race, only because of the history; its origin and how the religion being spread. (I think it is no longer applicable in this information overload age) Thus, it is possible to change our religion, which is usually determined by our parents, to the one we seems appropriate. The thing that we need to do is to study the religions from its source, the holy book ie the Bible, the Quran, the Torah, The Bhagavad Gita, to name a few, just to be fair. Do you know that; Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are all originated with a
divine covenant between the God of the ancient Israelites and Abraham
around 2000 BCE. There are lots of similarity between these three religions, therefore I dont think its hard to study these three for starters, Im sure all of us (the top 2 %) ;), are very capable of.

My 2 cents
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