How does religion impact on our personal identity?

Religion, by itself has its own effect on the community, on how people think, their train of thought, what they do in life. Your personal identity could be effected by the religion you follow, it depends on how you were brought up, it shows your understanding to what is right and wrong. There are different religions in the world and each of them help mould what kind of person you would be, the religious values that have to be upheld with the religion that you choose to follow or the religion you grew up in. In the middle east, religious values are different to other religions, so it defines right from wrong in the eyes of the community, from the western religion.

Some of the religious values the middle eastern people hold because they were brought up that way maybe viewed as wrong in which the western people where brought up, but its our personal identity that defines us from the rest, no matter what religion you follow, but some people out of fear don't have their own personal identity, but one of which that has been provided by the community that follows that religion. There are very few people in the world that have their very own personal identity, because each person wants to belong to a group of some kind, and having a very unique identity could cause a problem, to socialize with other people, and to blend in with the community. Just by having your views on things that is right and wrong, or what values you hold would not be seen as very religious, therefore you would not be in a community that doesn't, uphold your values. It would be like taking an red neck and placing him in the northern provence of Pakistan, his values and the ones of the community would be very different like Ying and Yang just two different things.

Some of the values that the Pakistani's stand for, would be viewed as barbarous by the western people. Similarly, the values that the western culture believes is viewed as unholy and insane in the Pakistani religion. Religion has a massive impact on personal identity, how you think, how you view things in the world, if its bad or good, but religion is not supposed to have an impact on your personal identity, but people that don't really have one, would be given an identity by the religion in which they follow. The religion itself has its own identity among other religions, it's what defines it as different, but defines us as a part of a community in which we all have the same values and identity because we follow the same religion. To have your very own personal identity, something that makes us, who we are, requires that we live in an isolated place, so no one can affect, how you think, or show you what's right and wrong, it's your judgement of things that would define you.