Religion In Plato's Allegory Of The Cave

Religion affects lives all around the world and has made a huge impact on my life. It has changed me as a person and will continue to do so. Allegory of the Cave has a storyline that I feel I can relate to my life. It deals with a group of people that are chained to a wall, trapped inside of a cave. One person gets free, and has to climb a rough ascent in order to make it outside. I started off being forced to go to church, and then had to climb that rough ascent to finally be able to take a step back and form my own opinion on things. Salvation deals a little more directly with my situation. Hughes lies to the whole church when he decides to “accept” Jesus into his life when really he only does it to end all of the commotion. He never really

He belongs to a group of people that are bound to the wall inside of a cave. They are only able to see the shadows on the wall that is in front of them. The quote “Behold! Human beings living in an underground den, which has a mouth open towards the light and reaching all along the den...” (Plato 612). illustrates that the group of people are living in a cave that has access to the outside world. In Christianity, I believe that people view themselves as this person, and believe that God is there to lead them out of this cave. It might be insensitive of me to say this, but growing up I’ve always never really understood religion as a whole. Not being able to see the person I am worshipping just does not really go well with me. Further into the story, the person has to scale a rough ascent in order to escape the cave. The ascent is very steep and rugged, but if it means escaping the cave, the person will keep going no matter what. I don’t know a bunch about Christianity, but I do know that Christians believe in the afterlife. They believe that the life they are living is the rough ascent, and that the outside of the cave is the afterlife. Plato states, “I agree, he said, as far as I am able to understand you” (Plato 616). I have always been the kind of person to look up to people smarter than I am. As I’ve said before, I cannot wrap my head around

I was obviously not mature enough to make my own decisions, so that alone kept me from not going to church. My family kept having me attend even though I did not exactly enjoy being there. My cousin Chase went with me as well, so my family thought having him there would make it better. Well it didn’t. Even though I expressed to them how boring it was to me, they always replied with something along the lines of “It’ll get better Clay I promise.” As I started getting older, I began to get more of a say in my actions; I started to have my own beliefs. I started to understand more of Christianity and what it was exactly. I began to realize that there was more to it than just a God that watches over everything you do. Around this time, my family stopped going to church and I did as well. Not having to go to church anymore was a big thing for me. In school, I made friends with people who did not really believe in anything in particular. This is what started me down the track to becoming Agnostic. I realized that I did not believe in Christianity, and that I did not believe in anything at all. Before deciding this, I reflected back on my past and realized that all of the stuff the church taught me growing up made no sense to me. In order for me to believe in something like that, I needed actual proof. Later on, I went back to church with my girlfriend to revisit and see what things have