Faith and rationality

For example, one can look at Huckleberry Finn’s simplistic explanation of prayer and morality. “And I about made up my mind to pray, and see if I couldn’t try to quit being the kind of a boy I was and be better. So I kneeled down. But the words wouldn’t come. Why wouldn’t they? It warn’t no use to try and hide it from Him. Nor from ME, neither. I knowed very well why they wouldn’t come. It was because my heart warn’t right; it was because I warn’t square; it was because I was playing double. I…

government of their community. Some of these colonists left to form other colonies that were less strictly governed. For example, Rhode Island, formed by Roger Williams, a member of the Puritan community, was the first colony to allow people of any faith to live as active participants in the community. Although these newer colonies were not all directly formed on religious grounds, the attempt to seek religious freedom was a major factor in the development of all of the colonies in the New…

Normally when we are in agreement , it is easy for us to behave properly with each other. However when we are in disagreement, we do not always behave properly. What make it worse is when people try to justify their misbehavior by pretending that they Before talking about the etiquette of disagreement , First are very religious. People who do this pretend that they are very concerned about the deen of Allah. When in reality, they are just ignorant of the teachings of Islam and Islamic behavior…

the power of faith and trusted in their destiny. As a result, they are willing to accept the fate that they are live in loneliness. Since all respondents are Muslim, thus the religious practices that described in this study are based on the Islamic teaching. “...religious practice helped me a lot. It's something that makes me survive…” (Respondent 6, 68, widower, high level of loneliness) “…this practice makes me able to survive till now. I do not know how, if I did not have faith, I probably…

Religious accessories? Should they be banned? It is a well-known fact that religion and workplaces often produce conflicts and so employers usually want their workplaces to be secular but violation of people’s basic human rights is not acceptable and banning religious accessories is a violation of people’s fundamental human rights. After all we work to live but we do not live to work. People often tend to forget that religious attire might not be an accessory at all it might be something that…

In America, we have freedom of religion and every religion is accepted, but that was not always the case when the Puritans tried to force their religion on the Indians. Religion is a touchy topic in our society today, but not as much as it was when the Puritans first came to the New World and tried to force the natives to their religion. This created a conflict that got so heated it was a cause of war. This conflict makes us wonder, who started the fighting? Did the natives do something to the…

1. Bhil religion is clearly very different from the religious notions common in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Are there underlying similarities between these and Bhil religion? There are some underlying similarities between Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and Bhil religion. For example, the Bhils believe in the idea of the High God, which is similar to the other religions, who also have a single, supreme God: Allah of Islam, God of Christianity and Judaism. Traditions such as Christmas are…

As people progress through life, they often look for a greater meaning in their lives, particularly through religion. A Canadian author who grew up amongst many different cultures, Yann Martel made religion and its importance in a person’s life a big part of his popular novel, Life Of Pi. In Life Of Pi, Martel uses his simplistic writing style to put a greater emphasis on religion, which is explored through the main character’s conflict of being stranded on a lifeboat with a tiger. In fact,…

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…