Assignment 4 - Sanat Dharwad

 Growing up, my parents never taught me to have religious beliefs, though my mother did and does believe in some higher power. When I was younger, I tended to agree with my mother, but as I grew up, I slowly drifted away from believing in such things. I think this happened because religion wasn’t really drilled in to me as a kid, and it didn’t really play an integral part in my life at all, it was merely a yes or no answer to whether God exists. Other than not having any reason to believe in a higher power, I also slowly found reasons not to, such as young me slowly realizing how many problems there are and were in the world, such as slavery, people in abject poverty, and more stuff like that. For a period of time I was flipping between the two ideas, and eventually settled on there being nothing supporting the absence or presence of a higher power.