VALUES HERITAGE AND DIFFUSED RELIGION

Every person who comes into the world already finds waiting for him myriad religious options, established over time within different territorial and cultural contexts. People and organizations, beliefs and rites, values and symbols, traditions and acquisitions are able to resist the more drastic changes and adapt to the less important ones. This co-formation which leads to conformation and homogeneity in clothing and mental habits, in body language and gestures and in verbal expressions and tone of voice does not bracket religion but rather is often the keystone of it: the beliefs and religious practices of adults influence those of their children almost by force of inertia. The spilling over of inherited values may take place at a later stage in the least foreseeable or most problematic occasions which call into play the value of life and the meaning of existence.