Religious Response Research Paper

Religious Response I have struggled with stories from the news of Catholic priests embroiled in child molestations and questioned my involvement or associating myself with an institution that not only denies some of the accusations but also hides the facts from the public. I sometimes ignore the stories thinking that hatred towards these evil people will stress me out to the point where I will leave the church completely for the lack of trust and deceptive tactics played on the congregation. What kind of person does this acts? What goes through their devious minds as they continue to practice their rituals and preach the gospel? To go after the innocent and do to them what they please without any remorse. Then the big question comes after …show more content…
Reichenbach, writes “creating persons who perform a very significant number of free acts and who thus might be appropriately termed free persons, God has made things which he subsequently cannot control”. So is there a limit over the control of people’s actions even if what they do is done out of pure evil or are we free to choose what actions to perform? Free will theodicy explains our human nature and our evolving world. As complex as times get from the very beginning to our current times we will always have to live together to survive and evolve into an efficient species. One way is creating an environment where we teach each other how to live on earth and prosper. Enculturate into a well-organized and sophisticated society even though the complete opposite can erupt in an unhealthy and negative environment. Our rationale minds will dictate what is better for the future of our …show more content…
Is suffrage part of our destiny and just a temporary thing we all must learn from to create a better world for future generations? Sacrifice in the name of God. Create governments that promote equality and ensure order. Not divide and create a chaotic environment like that of the holocaust. Or increase our knowledge of science and nature and prevent deadly diseases that can wipe out millions like the black plaque. To think of humans as good to begin with and not evil would be to suggest that God in his creation of humanity never made a mistake in the making but the problem of evil came from us. To take what happened to Adam and Eve and that apple of knowledge of good and evil and expose ourselves into a savage world and make those judgements and choices ourselves and pay for it however we deserve it. Who are we to assume that God in his all powerful notions ever created something in which he would not have complete control