Tradition

Living in the South, I experienced religion as nothing more than tradition. Everyone was a "Christian." I started disliking terms like "Christian," "religious," "religion," or "Christianity." They lost all sense of meaning to me. The one constant in my life, the one thing that had meaning was completely ruined by their complete disregard for its weight in my life. The term "Christian" meant immeasurably more to me than it did them. In fact, it actually meant something to me and how I lived. To them it was a social norm; it was something that was looked down upon if you weren't a Christian. The lethargic approach to Christianity made me want to disown religion altogether. Religion to me was far more applicable to my personal life than it was to their lives.