Personal Essay: What Religion Is A Guide To Me?

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Religion for me is a belief in which people put faith in, and also way to worship God or gods. Depending on cultures and countries the religion practices are different. People all might have the same “God,” but not all people have the same way to worship. God is not a religion, the humans create the religion after Jesus Christ came to the earth, and since that happened religion became a lifestyle. A way of life with rules to follow according to on what is in the bible. The ten commandments are the guide to all Catholics and Christians, and they try to follow step by step to obtain salvation. They believe just like all the religions that they are the right religion because they even based their faith in events that happened in the past. Events …show more content…
However, is this real? In the world exist a variety of beliefs and traditions, and not all of them are about religion. However, religion makes humans being wise, apparently, have the best solutions and take the best decisions than someone who does not believe, or how is frequently saying “Oh! She/he is from the world; we live in the world, but we are not part of it.” Sadly, everyone is part of it there is none human without any sin. Regarding philosophy, religion does not make any difference in life. Can a man be happy without religion? In the book, Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle talks about the highest good in life and the end of life. Moreover, what he means by highest is good is happiness, but he does not say how people can get to the highest good. By practicing a religion or a doctrine people believe happiness will be found in God, but what happen when people do not get what they want and are not that easy? People used to get frustrated and miserable; the desire to serve and know more about God or the religion become a ritual, a routine. Every person has goals and millions of things that they want to achieve before death, so Aristotle emphasizes that the end of life is not death, but it is to complete the goals and dreams people set in their minds. A good point, he makes in his book is that virtues help to define the excellent of a person

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