Is a relgion an individual's identity?

Yet we have people who take to demonstrations on roads because of one simple line in a song?

Rightly said mansha

I must ask you this in all fairness, I do noty wish to hurt you but will you feel threatened if smeone remarks nagatively on your beliefs so much that you would kill that person for it. My question arises from a debate on a TV channel. Hence I am intrigued. I also had a bad child hood but see how extremly different my response has been, I have lost faith in this thing called religion. I beleive in a God that belongs to all and I see the process of worshiping just a medium for self healing and nothing else. We do it for ourselves in whichever way we have been taught to. I was wondering two troubled souls faced with adversity-but react in different way to same thing. Its interesting , isn't it.

*laughs* I grew up in a place where my great-grandmother and I were the only people of my religion. I spent my whole early life being mistreated and ridiculed for my religious beliefs. I have occasionally gotten annoyed or angry over it, but I don't feel threatened. Because I actually see and speak to my Gods, nothing anyone could say would shake my belief in them. It would be like if someone said my son didn't exist, I couldn't stop believing in him because I carried him in my womb, gave birth to him, held him, and right now he's playing with my foot. It's just the same to me, my Gods and the spiritual world I believe in are just that real to me. So no one can threaten that belief, though Christians specifically have tried my entire life. *shrugs* I wouldn't kill them over it, though I have hit a couple who physically harmed me first over the issue. I only fight in protection of myself or others though, so you could bash my beliefs all day long and as long as it's only verbal (or written in this case), I'll likely either laugh at you or walk away. In my case, the harm from my childhood is what led me to my beliefs. Since I had a bad childhood, I needed strength to endure. My Goddess offered that. I needed to know why my life was so horrible, and my Goddess told me things I would need to do later that I would need the strength I was gaining now for. And those things happened, and I did protect others as I was meant to when the time came. I'm still doing that. The number of people I have given advice to, offered physical help to, pointed in the right direction to get help, or even actually physically protected has become larger than I can even comprehend. So my beliefs and the information my Goddess gave me is what made me survive, and my survival has had a very important purpose.

I heard somewhere that people fear for their own identity when teir relgious beliefs are questioned. I have a hard time grasping this theory but on reflection to the world's event whe you see it , this seems so true.