Bahá'í Faith

Many people think that religious differences as a cause of discrimination, slaughter, and genocide. In daily life, we often hear or even see through television that religious differences are often the reason for discrimination, slaughter, and genocide. Many rulers who used religion as a basis for breaking the human race and spark a conflict. Actually, the religious differences can be used as a tool to humiliate a race or other religious groups. The differences in religion can be used as a tool…

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…

For this question, I am going to take the position of the devil’s advocate. The question here is whether I agree with Whitehead’s characterization of religion, as it relates to solitariness and the three stages of religion. To this question, I must answer that I do agree with his characterization. If we were to transition one word from religion to Christianity, I would be taking a different approach to my answer in this question. As I break the question into two distinct sections, I will…

Karolina I. Pellot Ortiz Professor Matthew Goodwin English 3221-705 September 17, 2015 Faith Based on Cultural Opinion Is there truly one simple way to explain a religion? Which opinion is right and which one is wrong? These are the types of questions that you, or anyone else, might ask when trying to describe your religious beliefs. “Jesus Shaves” is a short humorous story by David Sedaris, an American author and comedian. He is characterized for writing stories with a lot of humor and “Jesus…

He can determine how close the community is and how strong the faith is. My imam is a person I hold the utmost respect for. When he looks towards me I instantly humble myself and around him, I make sure that I am respectful. He is a person that I look up too. All the adults at the mosque, including my dad, look up to…

religious persecution, the first Europeans to settle in America, established colonies to serve as ‘safe havens’ for their spiritual beliefs. Each colony was defined by the religion of its people, crafting their policies and traditions around their faith. Salem, Massachusetts, epitomized the views of the Puritans. Their strict social views greatly influenced what rules were enforced in Salem. The town banned things such as travelling to the forest and dancing, believing that they were direct…

Emily Dickinson’s relationship with her faith is epitomized in her, “This World is not Conclusion”. In order to convey her complicated religious affiliation, Dickinson created three sections in her poem. Each section details a stage in her transformation from pious to agnostic. Dickinson uses both, subliminal poetic mechanics – such as punctuation and structure – and obvious literary techniques – such as personification and rhyme schemes – to fully describe this transformation in only twenty…

question on "Good Country People" by Flannery O 'Connor 1) In the Good Country People’s short story, Joy-Hulga is also a college educated person, but the bad is she has a bad view about Christian religious faith. She thinks the Christian religious faith is a fairly common view. The Christian religious faith needs a strong btrust about the concepts like a divine is walking the earth in a human form, rebirth from the dead and virgin birth. People that have an intelligent mind in education will…

There are several different situations today in where one’s religion or spiritual beliefs influence their daily lives. Being a college student, we encounter a variety of ways in which people’s beliefs are challenged and new living situations force new or changed beliefs/ways of living. More specifically, ones sexuality is often spoke about when talking about spiritual beliefs. Sexuality is also more often called into play during the transition from being in high school and heavily influenced by…

questioned the most was the fate of Lupitos soul, which breed the start of his religious ambivalences. Antonio wishes to know answers only God himself knows and the frustration in not being able to get answers causes his faith to plummet. How could he believe in a God through mere faith? Antonio’s curiosity craved the desire to know the truth, one of the major components in his character, which leads him into a spiral of questioning and uncertainty regarding sin, innocence, death, the…