I have realized that I need not label myself, I need not mix and mingle, because in my heart is where god lies. I worship and praise him in my own way. Hans Kang gave one of the most eye opening and satisfying statements I have read or ever been told. Religion is " a beliving view of life, approach to life, way of life and therefore a fundamental patter embracing the indvidual and society, man and the world, through which a person (though only partially consious of this) sees and experiecnces, thinks and feels, acts and suffers,everything. It is a transcendentally grounded and immanently operated system of coordinates by which man orients himself intellectually, emotionally, and existentially." (Kung xvii) In closing, if a religion is forced upon you would you not stand up for it? Would you not you die for it? Many of these questions can be answered just by reading Chinua Achebe's, Things Fall Apart. Okonkwo felt just like anyone else who is a strong beliver in their religion, and he died for that in which he believed, for what he held the utmost respect. That was the religion of his people, the religion of his heart....
