Faith and rationality

From the late 100 B.C all the way until now, the majority of people have served throughout their religion. It wasn’t until the late 100 B.C that religion began towards people moving into their families and also their lives, making some become too religious. The people were over going their lives with the religion they honored. The people did more for their religion gods than they are doing for their own self. They worry more about a religion than what they could be doing about themselves instead…

All my life, my answers to questions regarding religions has been “I don’t know”. Being born and raised my first ten years of my life in Japan, I acquired many “religious” practices that the majority of the Japanese population perform, and became a cultural practice rather than a religious practice. However, I never quite understood what, where, or who God was, and assumed it was similar to like Santa Claus; someone who is everywhere and nowhere at the same time; someone who one thinks exists,…

Linus Benedict Torvalds is a Finnish software engineer who is the creator and, for a long time, principal developer, of the Linux kernel, which became the kernel for operating systems such as GNU and years later Android and Chrome OS. Hes work in Linux has made it a very legitmate operating system. Torvalds was born in Helsinki, Finland. He is the son of journalists Anna and Nils Torvalds, and the grandson of statistician Leo Törnqvist and of poet Ole Torvalds. Both of his parents were campus…

“I have more faith in Hitler than anyone else. He alone kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people." People in the concentration camps have no hope for the future. They have no faith in God to save them. Even though the rent near there hope of survival is a very low. But without hope and faith he cannot survive the camps. Without a reason to live what is the point of trying. Akiba who said "it's over. God is no longer with us.", could have survived if he kept his faith to God, he…

Faith. Though not all admit to it, it lies in everyone. It speaks and guides people through the day, from one hour to the next. It makes one feel safe and complete, for they are comfortably nestled in a sea of warmth. Faith gives one something to confide in, be it a time of wellbeing or when all hope is lost. However, when stagnant, it can be catastrophically malignant towards others, in addition, it precludes cultural modernization, the key component responsible for the imperative process of…

People are afraid to stand up for what they believe in because they are scared of what other people are gonna say and don’t want to be judged or even told what to do . Every person should not be afraid to speak up for they believe in because if you stand for it you should also defend it. This reminds me of the Puritans who faced kinda of the same thing I went through after people found out what religion I was. This subject reminds me of when I stood up for my religion because some friends…

As some of you might know I did my research topic on Mary Dyer. I felt that she was an inspiration for all who have suffered from religious persecution. Dyer was brave, strong, and had a lot of faith in what she believed in. Regardless of the repercussions, she continued on in her life to do what she felt was right by God. Not many people would have the courage to stand up for what they believe is right and to actually put it into action as well. She is part of the reason as to why we have…

There are many factors that contribute into a person’s religion choice, and can often not be a result based solely on only one’s beliefs, but often a result of pressures surrounding them. It was found that encouraging thoughts of God, in both atheists and religious people, resulted in higher voluntary and generous behavior rates (Sasaki et.al., n.p.). This statement shows that, even in a non believer’s life, religious thoughts that surround a person have a high impact on that person. With…

Countless people may ask themselves, where does faith fall when it comes to history? Well faith was clearly displayed to me when the 8th grade went to Ford’s Theater to the play ragtime. All of the action is the production had lots of faith especially Colehouse Walker Jr. Colehouse was a african american that had lots of passion and determination to make blacks and whites equal. The story “Ragtime” took place in the early 1900s and tells the story of three groups in the United States. During…

interested in studying “how members of interfaith and the patriots imagined and enacted their roles as active citizens” (23). This book focused on these two opposing groups: Interfaith group, a diverse organization for people with different religious faith and social background; and the patriots, a group of tea party activists which contains mostly white middle class and religious conservatives. Interfaith group is a coalition of diversity that, instead of focusing on their theoretical…