How is religion related to your everyday life?

Answer 1

Answer from a CatholicI can give you my personal take. Religion is defined in Fr. Hardon's Modern Catholic Dictionary, as "the moral virtue by which a person is disposed to render to God the worship and service he deserves."

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Now, God made me, and as the Old Baltimore Catechismsays:

Who made us? God made us.

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Why did God make us? God made us to show forth His goodness and to share with us His everlasting happiness in heaven.

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What must we do to gain the happiness of heaven? To gain the happiness of heaven we must know, love, and serve God in this world.

Now, if you put these two together, you come up with the obvious answer. Religion is NOT "related" to your everyday life. Religion is not related to your everyday life, it should be your everyday life.

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If you look at the lives of the saints, these are the people that loved God "with their whole heart, their whole mind ..." in other words, these are the people that actually did what God requested of them. They put Him first in their lives, and everybody and everything that they loved in this world, they loved because it was something that He created and asked them to love.

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Religion is NOT related to your everyday life, it is there to inform and guide your everyday life. If religion is something that you can separate from your everyday life and relate it to it, then you have failed, and the religion that you have is not the one that Our Blessed Lord is asking of you.