Faith Customers

By Quincy S. Jones

If the stewards of religion would allow people to communicate with whatever they believe in, humanity would be a lot better off.

That’s the bold assertion from Quincy Jones, who examines everything from terrorism, Islamophobia, Armageddon, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and metaphysics in this book.

Jones argues that humanity has moved away from spirituality in recent years and that there’s too much emphasis on material wealth. This answers questions such as:

• What is the role of the media in how we view various religions?
• How do individuals embrace religious beliefs?
• Why do people leave their faith?
• What are the origins of religion?

Good and evil exist in every human soul, but there are factors that determine which path a person takes.

Discover what makes a person believe what they believe and why members of different faiths are so often at odds with each other with the wisdom in this book.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press AU
• Release date: May 19, 2021
• ISBN: 9781982290368

Quincy S. Jones

Quincy Jones is an author, politician, public policy analyst, and theology researcher. Jones believes liberal democracy and social enlightenment can solve problems and disputes of all kinds, and he also believes in divine oneness.

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Balboa Press rev. date: 05/04/2021

To my late astounding

mother Eledara until I see her again…

Quincy.

CONTENTS

Book Introduction

Chapter 1 Religion: Like Father, Like Son

Chapter 2 Counterterrorism

Chapter 3 Religion Dialectic and Heritage

Chapter 4 Islamophobia

Chapter 5 Recruits and Recruiters

Chapter 6 Religion Conversely Brainwashing

Chapter 7 Islam versus Terror

Chapter 8 Extremism in Religion and Human Behaviour

Chapter 9 Political Islam and Terrorism

Acknowledgments

References final

BOOK INTRODUCTION

Terrorism, Islamophobia, the surviving division, the sons of God, the favourites, doctrines, the family, the truth, wealth, power, famousness, interests, selfishness, ego, metaphysics, life hood, after death, punishment, resentment, reresection, Armageddon, Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, etc.

Not a few people in the universe believe that

The source of religions is the sky, meaning that there is a god who communicated with messengers and carried them a message to spread it among humanity on his behalf.

These messages were revealed in distant and glorious eras to reform the condition of mankind and live in peace, love and consensus, but the opposite of the aims of these messages occurred, where religions became a means of gaining them and sometimes deceiving people, and sometimes removing them and liquidating them ethnically.

In recent times, the human being has moved away from spirituality and approached more than material and everyday matters of life.

The truth in front of humanity is that every human will die even if it extends his life, and there is no one who returned after death «practically» to tell humanity about the secret of death in reality except for some experiences that were said to be of people who died clinically and then returned to life and told stories that seem close, especially in the issue of light at the end of the tunnel And the feeling or desire to stay there and the unwillingness to return to life.

To know yourself how you embraced or belonged to what you now believe and your stance on other religions, atheists, political Islam and the role of the media in shaping the public’s taste towards religions ... You should read this book.

The important question: How did we embrace our beliefs at first? Did we follow the religion of our parents? Or our family? Or our societies or countries? Or is religion like DNA?

In the general mold, the first belief that a person adopts is the one that he finds in his family and grows up on it, and it is difficult for him to search in other religions because his family or his first belief, of course, has established that it is the right message, and all else is false and deceit, and it will end with you to torment and misery in this world, distress, psychological diseases and unhappiness.

CHAPTER 1

Religion: Like Father, Like Son

Let me follow Daddy steps for now.

—Aziz Suleiman

Introduction

Faith in religion is developed through upbringing and ages. Genes may affect a person’s faith in a religion up to a certain limit, but genes cannot influence that person completely. Genes may help determine how religious a person is. It is generally seen that children living with their parents follow the same religion that their parents have faith in. Some scientists believe that a person’s religious behaviour is a product of socialisation, or how a person is nurtured by his or her parents.

To find out whether a family’s genes affect the religion of its members, a study was conducted on twins who were raised apart from each other. The study found that genes contribute 40 per cent of a person’s religiousness. The remaining 60 per cent depends on how the person is raised, what his or her beliefs are, what standard of living he or she enjoys, and what community he or she lives in. Thus, environmental circumstances also affect one’s religious faith.

It has been observed that when children are born, they definitely follow their parents’ religion. But as they age, their faith can fade away. This shift may be due to their upbringing. To understand how children’s faith can fade with age, a few studies were conducted by biological scientists on children who were adopted by other people. It was identified that a person’s genes do not greatly affect a person’s beliefs.

However, there are some questions that have been left unanswered and need to be studied, such as how a person’s faith changes over time (Bengtson 2017). Despite conducting several different studies, scientists have been unable to conclude whether genes, age, or external environment is most responsible for a child’s religiousness. Lora Koenig is a student in (shaver 2017 study), a graduate student studying psychology, researched these factors to determine which had the greatest influence. She found that the effects of nature and nurture vary with time. The study she conducted found that when an adolescent grows into an adult, genetic factors become more important in determining how religious that person is and which religion the person worships (Shaver 2017, 324–327). Environmental factors are of no use in such a case because they do not affect the person to a sufficient extent. A child born into a Christian family will worship Jesus or Mother Mary; that person will never develop the same trust and confidence in some other god or goddess.

Different Religions in the World

There are 7.8 billion people in the world, and most of them belong to some religion. All believe in the mighty power whom they worship. Out of these, 2.3 billion people follow Christianity, 1.9 billion people follow Islam, 1.2 billion people follow Hinduism, 506 million people follow Buddhism, 100 million people follow traditional African religions, 394 million people follow traditional Chinese religions, 4.2 million people follow Jainism, and so on. These are the major religious groups that are known to the world.

There are other religions as well. They are not as popular, but people have faith in them and follow them, like Judaism, Shintoism, Cao Dai, spiritism, Zoroastrianism, animism, and Unitarian Universalism.

People have their sentiments with religion (Chidester 2018, 41–53). They worship gods and goddesses based on inheritance or according to their own choices. There are certain people who do not follow any religion, because they do not believe in an invisible power that resides somewhere it is not possible for a human being to reach.

It is also observed that in spite of these facts, today people defect from faith more frequently than they have in the past. They tend to become secular. But the traits and virtues that they have learnt in childhood are passed on to the children in their society.

The Origins of Religion

Despite so many studies, it is still not clear how a person creates faith in religion or how faith is transferred like a gene from parent to child. Joyace Marcus and Kent Flannery tried to understand the origin of religion. They excavated for fifteen years and found empirical evidence of a critical transition in religious behaviour. The records start in 7000 BC, when hunters and gatherers performed religious dances in temple arenas. At the beginning of corn-based agriculture, people started moving towards cult shrines and astronomically oriented temples (Bach 2017).

Marcus and Flannery’s research gave a new perspective on how religious behaviour evolved at every stage of human development. Religious behaviour was found in every region of the world; this indicates that it exists because of natural selection. It is a universal thing. It is wired into our circulatory systems. But atheists do not accept the theory that religious behaviour and faith in the cult shrines developed because of benefits to humans. Atheists believe that religion is useless and there is nothing in the world other than science.

Religious behaviour evolved through natural selection, which neither supports the idea of the existence of God nor disproves God’s existence. The human mind has evolved in the same way the human body has evolved. This evolution has endowed people with the religion of their community in the same way that people are forced to learn their community’s language. This means that the language and religion of any given community are based on culture and have nothing to do with genetics. It proves that a person’s religion cannot be the result of a genetic factor that runs from the parent’s body to that of the child.

Religion provides compelling advantages to people struggling for survival (Stewart 2018). It serves as an invisible government that binds people together into a single community. People follow the rules and regulations out of common interest: to get rid of the fear of divine punishment.

Marcus and Flannery also found that groups that adopted religious beliefs were more likely to survive than those that did not. The genes of the parents prompt the minds of the children towards rituals, which are followed by the community in hope of a greater good.

Emphasising natural selection gives us insight into the genes that enabled people to leave their descendants and develop altruistic behaviours—that is, people started spending time helping others within their community. Charles Darwin proposed the idea of natural selection. Two other biologists shared another finding: that human evolution and circumstances made group selection much easier than it had been before (Fannani 2018, 172–180).

For these reasons, people were divided into two groups. One group believed in egalitarianism, trusting people who have similar likes and dislikes. This group gave individuals a better chance of passing on their genes to their children. The other group developed community-benefitting behaviours, which included altruism and religion.

Humans became firmly implanted in the religions of their communities after the hunters and gatherers mastered agriculture. Rulers adopted religion as their source of authority. Roman emperors made themselves chief priests. They even called themselves living gods (Penner 2018). Religion also harnessed practical tasks such as agriculture. Many religions were thus based on spring and autumn, because during these seasons, crops were planted and harvested. Barley and Easter are two festivals that were celebrated as autumn and spring