Inherited Beliefs, Personally Chosen Spirituality, and the Freedom to Question What Was Never Truly Yours The Beliefs We Inherit Before We Can Choose Most of us begin life inside a belief system before we are old enough to understand what a belief system is. Family, culture, community, and tradition introduce us to ideas about God, morality, right and wrong, purpose, relationships, suffering, and what makes a good life. These ideas can provide belonging, stability, meaning, a

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