Yes! Definitely! Through the new atheist movement and it’s growing popularity, the topic of “God” has become quite sensitive. The new atheists are a group of intellectual and scholarly atheists whom are fighting to introduce a more open argument about the existence (or lack of) God. They hold debates with opposing theists to argue the topic of belief in God. The subject of atheism is fairly controversial because of very negative, and for the most part, untrue stereotypes. A large portion of theist’s assume that someone who does not believe in God is lacking morality, angry at the world, sacrilegious, a satan worshipper, and hates Christmas. A large part of the population directly links a person of religious involvement to having a more dependable
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The whole world is separated, families are separated, hate crimes are committed, all based on religious divides. Debate.org held a poll titled, ‘Does religion divide the world?’ the end vote was 79% yes, and only 21% no. For the most part, people will only vote that religion does divide the world if they have personal or secondhand experiences interfaith divides. Further examples can come from the religion I am most familiar with, Mormonism. Mormons were chased out of their homes, based on their religious practices. They had to travel across America to desolate land in order to live in peace. Multiple families within mormonism have disowned their children due to sexual orientation. This is due to the LDS church’s bold stand against the LGBT community, including the recent policy stating that children of gay parents cannot be baptised. “Equality Utah” found that 50% of homeless youth in Utah identifies as part of the LGBT community. They also stated that Utah is number 5 in America for highest suicide rates in the youth. Family members who are not Mormon, cannot attend the temple marriages of their own families, because of religious belief. In our personal lives we see that a “godly” religion is the largest divide within our
The whole world is separated, families are separated, hate crimes are committed, all based on religious divides. Debate.org held a poll titled, ‘Does religion divide the world?’ the end vote was 79% yes, and only 21% no. For the most part, people will only vote that religion does divide the world if they have personal or secondhand experiences interfaith divides. Further examples can come from the religion I am most familiar with, Mormonism. Mormons were chased out of their homes, based on their religious practices. They had to travel across America to desolate land in order to live in peace. Multiple families within mormonism have disowned their children due to sexual orientation. This is due to the LDS church’s bold stand against the LGBT community, including the recent policy stating that children of gay parents cannot be baptised. “Equality Utah” found that 50% of homeless youth in Utah identifies as part of the LGBT community. They also stated that Utah is number 5 in America for highest suicide rates in the youth. Family members who are not Mormon, cannot attend the temple marriages of their own families, because of religious belief. In our personal lives we see that a “godly” religion is the largest divide within our