Throughout history people have turned to sacred beliefs for sense of well-being, gathering with others whom share their interests, or simply for a guided way of life to live by. Some of the world cultures have rituals, sacred grounds, even objects of common use to represent the practices in which they hold so dearly, for the majority of cultures, religion, typically with a worshiped deity, if not more than one, and a literary central religious text to live by, is how the rest of the religious world practices their beliefs. The largest of those religions is Christianity, making up 33.0% of the World Population, followed primarily in North and South America as well as Europe (Schaefer, 2015, p. 308). Christianity is defined as “the religion based
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A debate has long been standing on whether Christianity is a Western or Eastern religion. As PewResearchCenter points out with great demographics, Christianity in the earliest of its phases, even until the early 1900’s, was namely an Eastern religion, however, as time has progressed to the modern day, the Americas make up the majority of Christian religion, followed by Europe, Sub-Saharan Africa and the Asia-Pacific (www.pewforum.org). Though there are branches and many denominations, there are a few things that hold true throughout the religion itself. Two major Holidays exist that are celebrated far and wide by Christians across the globe, which are Christmas and Easter (www.religionfacts.com). Other things such as the afterlife, spiritual suffering or enlightened acceptance, heaven and hell, angels and demons, and the Holy Trinity are all shared amongst Christians. Other things include certain rights of passage such as salvation, or things like Communion, an official funeral to send the spirit properly, and church on Sundays (www.religionfacts.com). It is through these shared activities that support is always available for members, whether it be through group prayer, individual talks with a priest or minister, confession, or simply an open alter to pray at, which is widely seen in all hospitals to give those in suffering a place of piece and …show more content…
Tertullian likens all women to Eve, calling them "the devil 's gateway," "the unsealer of that forbidden tree," and "she who persuaded him whom the devil was not valiant enough to attack." It was because of Eve, Tertullian argued, and therefore because of all womankind, that "God 's image, man" was condemned to death, and that the Son of God himself had to come and die. In light of this, he added, how dare any woman "think about adorning yourself over and above your tunics of skins?" (Rump, L. H., 2008). We, as a society in Christian faith, have also seen women as “housewives” and “child bearers” for many centuries up until the passing of the Civil Rights Act and equality. It has also been customary in Christian belief that man and woman will marry and that the women has been given to the man in a wedding ceremony, but as of this week, as we have seen all over the news, that has all changed with the Supreme Court ruling, allowing gay marriage across the United States. For the longest of time, the founding of this Country has been based on sole Christian beliefs, so a type of social control shadowed this land for over a century under our Constitutional beliefs. Typically no one is forced though, to become Christian and
A debate has long been standing on whether Christianity is a Western or Eastern religion. As PewResearchCenter points out with great demographics, Christianity in the earliest of its phases, even until the early 1900’s, was namely an Eastern religion, however, as time has progressed to the modern day, the Americas make up the majority of Christian religion, followed by Europe, Sub-Saharan Africa and the Asia-Pacific (www.pewforum.org). Though there are branches and many denominations, there are a few things that hold true throughout the religion itself. Two major Holidays exist that are celebrated far and wide by Christians across the globe, which are Christmas and Easter (www.religionfacts.com). Other things such as the afterlife, spiritual suffering or enlightened acceptance, heaven and hell, angels and demons, and the Holy Trinity are all shared amongst Christians. Other things include certain rights of passage such as salvation, or things like Communion, an official funeral to send the spirit properly, and church on Sundays (www.religionfacts.com). It is through these shared activities that support is always available for members, whether it be through group prayer, individual talks with a priest or minister, confession, or simply an open alter to pray at, which is widely seen in all hospitals to give those in suffering a place of piece and …show more content…
Tertullian likens all women to Eve, calling them "the devil 's gateway," "the unsealer of that forbidden tree," and "she who persuaded him whom the devil was not valiant enough to attack." It was because of Eve, Tertullian argued, and therefore because of all womankind, that "God 's image, man" was condemned to death, and that the Son of God himself had to come and die. In light of this, he added, how dare any woman "think about adorning yourself over and above your tunics of skins?" (Rump, L. H., 2008). We, as a society in Christian faith, have also seen women as “housewives” and “child bearers” for many centuries up until the passing of the Civil Rights Act and equality. It has also been customary in Christian belief that man and woman will marry and that the women has been given to the man in a wedding ceremony, but as of this week, as we have seen all over the news, that has all changed with the Supreme Court ruling, allowing gay marriage across the United States. For the longest of time, the founding of this Country has been based on sole Christian beliefs, so a type of social control shadowed this land for over a century under our Constitutional beliefs. Typically no one is forced though, to become Christian and