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This suggests that if one compares the reasons for Jewish people to be ready to sacrifice their children to gods like Molech and also offer offerings to other gods, then one must ask what could be the distinction between religion as the individual activity/ritual and the religious faith? Since the matter of fact will remain that whether it was that the Israelites or the Aryans and Dravidians of the subcontinent, worshipped and feared gods they had never seen, yet their trust and faith lay in those gods that they shaped with their own hands, the carved images of gods, their faith in these gods, like the golden calf, had been far deep than the faith the Israelites had in the God of Moses, the God who said “I am who I am.” It makes me wonder the …show more content…
If that was so, then why did it bring about so much faith in the hearts of people that they put their trust and faith in its practice that could help them receive the blessings that they imagined and, how then how one’s personal activity of practice of religion took a new shape of additional practice- the practice of magic itself. It is important to be reminded that the reality about witchcraft for a western person might be a fantasy but not for one like me who comes from that region of practicing the magic.The reason for integrating the cultural and sociological aspect was to highlight the difference of sense of community of cultures of different times that think and act alike and think more about the gain of the things that are not possible by human strength. Here it seems that the biological mindsets of humans of these different eras do have an ethical code of conduct, which in this particular case is …show more content…
This can vary due to one’s geographic and cultural background. For people of the developing countries this might state the notion that death has an appointed time and none can battle against that, which means that no one can argue against that. However, this might depend on the context of the patient or dying person’s illness, but people of the developed countries think a little differently. Distinctly, there is a sociological reason for that, but sociology, norms, tradition and culture play a part in forming one’s theological arguments. The biggest cultural difference is visible when the dying patient in a country like the U.S., is granted permission for

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