Faith and rationality

Religion has always played a role throughout history, providing moral and social guides, along with establishing the laws in society that govern how people carry things out in life. It provides a basic foundation of how people establish a relationship with everyone and everything around them. There are many religions in Oceania that impacted and determined how Indigenous people lived their lives, but the main ones that influenced them the most are Mana, Animism and Totemism. Mana is a…

In the end, religion promotes selfishness. However, the fundamental aspect of it would fool most anyone. Most religions have general rules that the followers abide by or certain beliefs that followers have to believe that promotes a better society and unselfishness within an individual; i.e. Christianity has the underlying principle that one must help others in need with asking nothing in return. Most followers of these religions feel that they abide by the rules set forth because it is what…

that were on a Baptist missionaries. Later on he was homeschooled by his mother. His beliefs have always been a huge part of his life. Many children struggle with staying in their faith as they begin their teen years. He has had many of the same temptations as many of us have. Not like many of us he stood strong in his faith and let nothing bring him down. As we all know no one is perfect. We all make mistakes and he did also, but he never strayed off from God. In 2006 Tim Tebow received a…

To have knowledge is to have power, and by having power you must know all. Most knowledge can lead to many advancements in our world, but the most important knowledge is the information that improves the quality of life. The comprehension of religion can set the standard of health, comfort, and happiness. In The Allegory of the Cave, Plato explains to us how to access knowledge and how it can benefit our lives. Something like religion could improve the quality of life. Religion is a cultural…

Milton (An Analysis of Milton’s Theodicy in Paradise Lost) Studies of religion have been made since the dawn of all religions of the world. Humanity will always seek to explain the unexplainable, and religion is possibly the most comforting explanation. As more religions came to rise, and more branches split from one another, scholars of history sought to understand and catalogue the religions of the world. No exception to this is the great writer, John Milton. In 1667, Milton wrote the English…

Benninga story because my family went through the same situation. Our families came to the United State to escape violence and seek for better opportunities. Indeed, I was shock with Mr.Barber strong belief in religion. I was eager to listen about his faith in god and how Orthodox practice their religion. I was happy to see Mr.Barber bring some object to the class that are important in his religion. Frank Vawter shared with the class a brief story about his religion freedom and his American…

Indigenous religion was first brought to Hawaii by the first settlers from the South Pacific Islands of Polynesia. Since South Pacific Polynesians migrated to Hawaii overtime, Hawaiian Polynesian Religion is a mix of original Polynesian religion adapted with the lifestyle of the Hawaiian Islands. Hawaiian Indigenous religion centers around Gods of natural forces; Ex. Lono - The God of rain, Kanaloa - The ocean God. Hawaiian Indigenous religion aims to balance the relationship between nature and…

Casanova and Calhoun from Rethinking Secularism In his article, “The Secular Secularizations, and Secularism,” Jose Casanova attempts to distinguish the various terms deployed when discussing secularism. He defines the secular as “a central modern epistemic category (54),” one that is inherently different from the religious, secularization as the transformation of institutional spaces from the religious into the secular, and secularism as the worldviews and ideologies that uphold and maintain…

does not exist. In inquiring whether or not a God exists, each individual is practicing free inquiry by setting off to discover their own truth. These individuals who broke away from Catholicism to observe faith in God through other means created their own subsections of religion in their own faiths such as Lutheranism and Presbyterian. Which is exactly like that of Planet of the Apes in which one man leaves with a few to create a brand new civilization, providing evidence that there needs to be…

Compassion is a word that links us to every human being in helping understand each other. Whether it is by religion, meditation, or community structures, compassion is the tike of it all. Compassion sees everything without a filter; it doesn’t acknowledge social statuses and religious barriers. It simply binds us together to form an alliance where we all feel sympathy and concern for the misfortune of others. Compassion acknowledges us to cry in pity and to cry as our reaction to tragedies of…