Religion's Influence On Language

The world is created not by physical measures, but through language. Empowering the speaker, language enables one to place meaning to a word. Hence, words generate categories and divisions based on the perception of the speaker. Control is gained through the power of the tongue. Along with control, manipulation can be the byproduct of language. In the act of naming, people have the tendency to assume the existence of that object. When interfering with the existential factors of any type of subject, human beings assume the position of God by mirroring God’s power to place something into existence. The ability to dictate what a word means affects how religion, the development of self, and thoughts are formed and accepted. Religion is the effect of Language. People may argue that religion has been concurrent with time since the very beginning, therefore the pretense that the evolution of language could have some underlying effect on religion seems absurd. On the contrary, even in Christianity the imminent influence of language has been illustrated. In Genesis 11:1-9, the story of the Tower of Babel is introduced. At Babel, all of the inhabitants of the world spoke one language, and they told themselves, “ ‘Come, let us build ourselves a city, …show more content…
The Plato-Nietzsche crisis is a paradox, because if language were to continue being categorized there would be a jumbled mess that the Webster dictionary could not help, or if language were to stop being categorized there would be a massive amount of words with the same meaning or no meaning. Stop the mayhem. It must be accepted that as time goes by language will evolve and new meanings will come, so it is an effort in vain to stop the progress in language even if the progress has the side-effects of control and