African traditional religion

Rebecca Berger Clement Philosophy 101 October, 15, 2015 Do God and Evil Coincide? The issue with the presence of evil and the existence of God is most commonly the question of “if God is all powerful and all good, why does evil exist?” or “if evil exists then would God not be all-powerful or all-good?” If God was an all-powerful being then He would be able to prevent evil things – war, disabilities, natural disasters, etc. – from happening, but since they seem to occur every day, He must not…

Poets including Andrew Marvell used New World language to mask their sexual desires. Marvell’s ‘Bermudas’ takes the idea of faith to a sensual level, using metaphors to uncover a promised Eden and erotic lust. Marvell’s approach to lust through religion is unimaginable, how is he able to mask his sexual desire through his faith in God? He embraces New World language to explore faith in God and lust for his promised…

The Merriam-Webster dictionary says that religion is an organized system of beliefs and traditions used to worship a certain god or gods. It also says that government is a system in which a group of people exert political control over a country or state. Only one of these two systems, though, rely on faith on the unknown, while the other relies on a set of reasonable laws and rules, and in Puritan society, government and religion are intricately related. Obviously, there is a stark contrast…

Spirituality means different things to different people. This world is made up of individuals with different ideas and beliefs which give birth to different worldviews. My personal worldview is based on how I was reared. My religion, Christianity, is what shapes my worldview. I believe in one God who gave his only begotten Son, who died not for only my sins but everyone of this world. This paper will discuss the various meanings of "spirituality," and my understanding of the concepts of…

The subject of religion has always been a subject of contradiction against people because of the diverse religion that exists in the world. Everyone will then have an agreement on the fact that religion is having faith and believing on what is above a human being. “Salvation”, “The Veil”, and “What God Got to Do with It” respectively written by Langston Hughes, Marjane Satrapi and Karen Armstrong, revealed an interesting experience during a time of their life on religion. Those authors by their…

The act of killing means to cause death. However, the causing of death does not always denote the act being morally wrong. The act of killing does not automatically equate to murder. Murder is the deliberate and premeditated killing of a human being. Moral justifications can be made to several acts that may contradict the legal or religious views of such an act. The following will rank six acts of killing on a spectrum in terms of morality. Six is the least immoral act and one is the most…

Kenneth Surin from The Harvard Review (1983) states “Theodicy, in its classic form requires the adherent of a theistic faith to reconcile of an omnipotent, omniscient and morally perfect God with the existence of evil” (p.225). In other words, in a religion where God is all powerful, all knowing, and purely good, how can evil exist at all. E. Dowling & W. Scarlett of Encyclopedia of Religious and Spiritual Development (2006) define evil as the bad or painful things which mankind is subject to…

In William Wordsworth’s “London, 1802,” the poet John Milton metonymically symbolizes the artistic excellence and revolutionary vigor the speaker believes England has lost. However, the speaker also appeals to Milton for moral guidance, correlating England’s political and cultural stagnation to a forgotten moral foundation. While the speaker employs parallelism and a wide variety of poetic devices to demonstrate this causality, his conspicuous and incessant use of the colon and semicolon…

systems. From these religious beliefs in a higher authority than that of man, civilizations and societies have derived teachings, customs, guidelines, and laws by which to live their lives. Many of the various religions hold on to the belief in a God and an afterlife. While these religions have some similarities, they hold some significant differences…

Religion is a conversational topic in the mental health care field today. Some professionals believe that religion effects mental health in a positive way, other professionals believe that religion affects mental health in a negative way. It’s hard to decide which side is right, because there’s a lot of “expectation to the rules,” when it comes to religion and mental health. Whenever we think of someone who considers themselves to be religiously orientated we normally don’t think of people in…