We are living in a world where we are dwelling in what we believe to be the truth and also in what we believe to be lies. We do not know which is which until we get an eye-opener and switch sides. Do you get what I am trying to explain?
A man can be living and killing humans and see nothing wrong with it because his religion which he is brought up with, says so, but when he gets an eye-opener, that day he switches sides—from justifying killing to seeing it as a crime and a sin.
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*Do you think people are more shaped by the truth they face or by the lies they believe?*
To answer this, I would go with: *“People are shaped by the lie they believe.”*
I know it sounds contradictory, but I will prove my point.
Taking it from the example I gave above, the man who picked from his religion that killing people carries no offense in the sight of God has been living like that and will continue to live that way until he finds out the truth one day.
Let us say the man is 40 years old and still living in that lie that seems very true to him; that tradition or religion has already shaped his life. If he does not get to know the opposite side as the truth, he would live and die like that and even pass the lie(accepted as truth to him) on to his children.
With that, has the lie that he believed to be the truth not shaped his life? Of course, it has.
We are humans, and the things we believe from infancy and grow up with, whether truth or lie, stay with us and become our tradition. They will remain like that until we come across something that opens our eyes to see that we have been on the wrong path all along. But sometimes, it becomes very difficult to leave the lifestyle because it has become a part of us.
Thanks.