In principle I was advising to at least observe a religion in a general sense. Once that’s established, only if there is an inexcusable reason and absolute unde

In principle I was advising to at least observe a religion in a general sense. Once that’s established, only if there is an inexcusable reason and absolute understanding would I recommend to change one’s religion away from that of one’s parents. It’s not that you can’t, but there should be a strong deliberate motive. Most will read it with an individualistic, reductionist, tabula rasa understanding of Man, in which one can think of religion as a set of rules and beliefs that can be analyzed and chosen like one chooses a career. Under that understanding, the religion of your parents is arbitrary. However, I consider that religion is integral to life and inextricable from oneself, and that we are in fact eternally related to our ancestors. Edit: This coming from a mechanical engineer with a PhD in finance.