Faith comprises the ideologies that motivate individual actions and spiritual beliefs. Therefore, faith can be employed as a tool of oppression and manipulation in the hands of individuals or communities. Faith-based beliefs can be incredibly powerful, serving as universal guidelines of conduct that followers can abide by. When certain members in a society reject ideologies imposed by another individual or community social divisions are bound to occur. Thus, social divisions may occur as a result of ideological differences rooted in faith. Totalitarian faith-based ideologies create social divisions that hinder the formation of a diverse interfaith community identity. Faith can create social divisions when it forcibly infringes on the lives…
As the four guys travel through a faith based journey whether or not to answer the call to become a Catholic priest, they are recorded left and right through school and among family and friends. They are all different people and interpret their faith differently as well too. When they make decisions you don't know if it will affect their life positively or negatively. The show was very interesting because as I watched the four students undergo faith based missions to test ingenuity and find…
For the first thesis- “faith is blind, science is evidence based”, Dawkins suggested that religion teaches us to be satisfied with not really understanding. For instance, when one religious person faces with some difficult problem, he/she will just justify it by using the quote of “Oh, God did it!” On the other hand, Lennox suggested that blind faith can be very dangerous especially when it’s coupled with blind obedience to an evil authority but not all faith is blind faith. Faith might be…
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…
‘Love Your Liver’ is a worthwhile initiative for All Saints Catholic Girls College. The ‘Love Your Liver’ program should be introduced into All Saints Catholic Girls College’s list of yearly events due to many reasons. This program creates a healthy eating habit to aid a healthy lifestyle, promotes the importance of a healthy liver, and keeps your skin, nails and hair in good condition. ‘Love Your Liver’ is a worthwhile initiative for All Saints Catholic Girls College and should definitely be…
Religion in philanthropy and faith-based organizations have been frequently discussed in academic literature and research. Through this literature review, I will discuss the research on both. All major religions emphasize generosity to those in need. In Christianity, believers are called to love their neighbors (Seelarbokus, 2016). In Islam, there are the concepts of the zakat and sadaqua to care for those in need (Lambarra & Riener, 2015). Judaism stresses the importance of tithing to…
Collaborating Community Nursing and Faith Based Nursing Faith based nursing was previously known as parish community nursing due to its origins from Christian faith (Blais, 2015). However, the term faith based nursing was coined in order to accommodate nursing from other faiths apart from Christianity. In particular, faith based nursing placing emphasis on care and health promotion which is within the beliefs, values and practices of the faith community, individual or family served. Faith…
The article I chose was Teamwork In Secular and Faith-Based Organizations written by Arnold R. Grant. You can find the article in the Performance Improvement, Dated July 2007, Volume 46 Issue 6, Pages 25-29. Three key points of this article are: 1. Meaning of teamwork 2. Positive work environment 3. Purpose in the workplace In this article it talks about how everyone has a different definition of teamwork. What one person believes teamwork means to them another person within the same…
Duwe, Johnson, and king (2013) estimated the Benefits of a Faith-Based Correctional Program. In this study, Duwe and his team use Minnesota’s InnerChange program as the focus for faith-based programs. In this evaluation, a quasi-experimental design was used to evaluate the effectiveness of Minnesota’s InnerChange program on recidivism. To evaluate the effectiveness of the InnerChnage program, Duwe, Johnson, and King compared the recidivism outcomes of 366 InnerChange participants to 366…
It is often said that faith, or religion, and reason are complementary sources of knowledge. However, this warrants critical appraisal, and I refute this claim using two premises. For the purpose of this argument, it must be made clear that it is faith that makes religion unreasonable. I propose that, reason and religion are fundamentally in conflict. Secondly, that because of this fundamental difference, it is unreasonable to believe something that is based on faith alone. Therefore, religious…