David Schwitzer
April 15, 2015
Professor McCartin
Essay #3
Does Religion Need A Justification To Be Important?
The quote by Christopher Hitchens, "Religion has run out of justifications. Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, it no longer offers an explanation for anything important,” would be seen as accurate by both Barbara Ehrenreich and Gershom Gorenberg. In Ehrenreich’s book, “Living With a Wild God”, she talks about being an atheist and how growing up in a non-religious home made her become a rationalist. In Gorenberg’s book, “The End of Days: Fundamentalism and the Struggle for the Temple Mount”, he focuses on the role played by the Temple Mount in the expectations of millions of rational men and women, belonging to established religious movements around the globe. These people Gorenberg focuses on looking towards the conclusion of history to gain the establishment of a perfected era. …show more content…
She lives her life thinking that you should only believe what you can verify which her father had passed down to her. She begins a systematic observation of her parents as an alternative to colluding in their emotional ups and downs. By doing so she is able to see objects and people as they really are just for what they exist as. Ehrenreich would argue that religion does not offer an explanation for anything that important due to its lack of justifications. Ehrenreich is a rationalist who doesn’t think in emotions. She doesn’t understand how people can be connected with something they can’t see or prove. She
April 15, 2015
Professor McCartin
Essay #3
Does Religion Need A Justification To Be Important?
The quote by Christopher Hitchens, "Religion has run out of justifications. Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, it no longer offers an explanation for anything important,” would be seen as accurate by both Barbara Ehrenreich and Gershom Gorenberg. In Ehrenreich’s book, “Living With a Wild God”, she talks about being an atheist and how growing up in a non-religious home made her become a rationalist. In Gorenberg’s book, “The End of Days: Fundamentalism and the Struggle for the Temple Mount”, he focuses on the role played by the Temple Mount in the expectations of millions of rational men and women, belonging to established religious movements around the globe. These people Gorenberg focuses on looking towards the conclusion of history to gain the establishment of a perfected era. …show more content…
She lives her life thinking that you should only believe what you can verify which her father had passed down to her. She begins a systematic observation of her parents as an alternative to colluding in their emotional ups and downs. By doing so she is able to see objects and people as they really are just for what they exist as. Ehrenreich would argue that religion does not offer an explanation for anything that important due to its lack of justifications. Ehrenreich is a rationalist who doesn’t think in emotions. She doesn’t understand how people can be connected with something they can’t see or prove. She