Eastern Religion V. Western Religion Essay

When Malcom X said “By Any Means Necessary” I think he meant that for human to treat each other right. Or that people have their rights to be equal on this earth and for a human being to be respected and treated as a human being and not an animal. For human to be given the rights they are born with, to me he was speaking for the African Americans at the time for all the racism and discrimination. Malcom’s goal to me was for him to try for everyone to have complete freedom, justice, and equality…

Since religion was formed, religion has been used as a way to justify going to war. Another use of religion throughout the course of history has been for the justification of crimes against humanity, whether that be executions, genocides, or even forcing others to change their own beliefs to follow another set of beliefs. Religion has been a catalyst for conflict in the past, and has remained a catalyst in modern times. Therefore a common catalyst for cultural conflict in the novel Things Fall…

In class, you often said something along the lines of "contrary to common belief this is what actually happened..." and that was an immediate red flag to me. You, an exceptionally honorable and wise Religion professor, told me something that many people have heard for years and years is actually wrong, but my first thought is, "why believe you over countless people?" Due to the fact that it is extremely difficult to research religious material especially…

Euthanasia is the act killing another person using the least painful method with the intent of helping that person. It can be done through administering medications or performing other interventions. Health care professionals are required to provide quality care to patients with the patient’s best interest (Kranidiotis et all, 2015). Nurses provide more direct care to patients and they are usually the patients’ final advocates. As nurses, should we not advocate for the life of our patients? I…

Blessed with the task of educating the faithful, catechists are challenged to invite others into a relationship with Christ. Over time, theologians have developed varying pedagogies meant to direct the catechist in his or her ministry, though it is important that these methods be in conformity to the Divine Pedagogy. Groome’s Shared Christian Praxis and Cavalletti’s Catechesis of the Good Shepherd draw upon the Pedagogy of God through the role of the catechist and through the means by which one…

Most everyone that has ever lived has had some form of faith that they fall back on when they have doubts, or when they seek answers to questions that they may not be able to solve otherwise, and I am no different. I was raised in a pseudo-catholic household and I attended a catholic private school up until I went to high school. While most would expect this to shape me to some extent in a religious manner, that is not the case. I could never claim that that specific establishment had no effect…

this oppression continues in modern developed nations. In 2004, the French government introduced an act that banned girls from wearing a Hijab in their school (Bruckner 63). At the time, this act was considered to be a minor adjustment to help take religion out of schools. Yet it was the precursor to the controversial act that commenced in 2011. The French government, in 2011, set into effect Loi interdisant la dissimulation du visage dans l’espace public or the act prohibiting concealment of…

Recognition as an individual in today 's western world is one of the most targeted qualities of human existence. Both financial and social rewards come to those who create unique identities for themselves and work beyond the safety of crowds. It follows that as our culture praises those who act as their own persons that their opinions and behaviors toward the supernatural would begin to diverge from any one established group, and even those groups themselves are permeated by breaking and…

picture and see what is really going on around us. There are so many things in our lives that make us who we are, and are the reasons why we think the way we do. Our beliefs come from somewhere, whether we were taught them, or if they come from our religions. The Fall Out Boy album cover is a very simple piece of art but disguises the bigger message; not all things are as black and white as they seem to be on the…

Roman ideas about woman within the family were on the verge of changing, yet not completely equal to men, in the third century with the religion of Christianity coming into affect and changing the cultural and social ideas within the Roman Empire. Christianity started as a small group which eventually led to the official religion of the Roman Empire. Christianity had some radical ideas that changed the dynamic of a woman within the home, but yet it still held a hierarchical system of beliefs…