Faith-based

When reflecting on many cultures and societies, you find examples of modernism. The advancement of our species, when it comes to our evolution. Some examples include aspects like: modern transportation, modern medicine, even a modern judicial system and yet many cultures/societies, still to this day, hold on to old age thinking. Where facts and scientific evidence goes out the window and proof has no say; where the role in this Dark Age thinking. Where a higher power decides the will/fate of a…

Why are religious organizations suffering the consequence of faith? It should not matter whether the organization is faith bound. If the organization has the means and has met all the other requirements they should have a chance for the grant as well as any other organizations that are not faith bound. What one could also say is that, although the Trinity Lutheran is a church, their program caters to the needs of the community…

Religion is a word and feeling that is left up to the person to interpret. Even though there are countless closed-minded people that feel as if religion and the highest power can only be felt in one way and should only be expressed in the way that everyone else expresses it, there are innuerable ways for one religion to be felt and told. From the writers of Basavanna, Mahadeviyakka, and Augustine, it is shown that the same religion worshiping the same God can be told and represented in three…

To American- British- Ghanaian philosopher, Kwame Anthony Appiah, religion has a variety of roles in his idea of cosmopolitanism around the world: as a cultural artifice that is subject to adjustment, a subject that affects cultural change, and as an emulator for it. Religion to him is both a positive and negative force , however, he suspects that the progress made through cosmopolitanism will get diminished by the latter half. Globalization is a way to push the benefits of the developed world…

In The Absurd, Nagel (1971) observes that people seeking to escape from the absurdity of human life may resort to broader ultimate concerns, with religion and the glory of God constituting one of the larger enterprises pursued by people. However, Nagel (1971) is adamant that even the existence of God may be insufficient to give human life a purpose or meaning. A careful analysis of Nagel’s argument leads to agreement with his position, informed by his observations regarding the ability to cast…

John Donne's 17th sonnet Since She Whom I Loved contrast itself from the other sonnets in the collection of the Holy Sonnets. The central element of 17th sonnet is the death of John Donne's wife which complements his relationship with God. The sonnet illustrates the happenings in John Donne's life. According to the researchers the death of his wife Anne caused a great impact on his life. She passed away at age 33 after giving birth to her twelfth child. He mourned her soo deeply that he…

When talking about the ‘soul’, the non-physical essence of a human being, many philosophers will use different words to mean the same thing. Words such as ‘mind’, ‘psyche’, and ‘spirit’ can all potentially be used interchangeably to mean soul. Many philosophers choose not to use the word ‘soul’ as it can have religious connotations, which may not necessarily be wanted when simply talking about the separation between the body and the mind. There are two general approaches to the idea of there…

Book Review of Thomas Banchoff, ed. ‘Religious Pluralism, Globalization, and World Politics.’ Banchoff, Thomas, ed. Religious Pluralism, Globalization, and World Politics. Oxford University Press, 2008, 348 pp., £54.00 hard body (ISBN 978-0-19-532340-5), £13.99 paper body (ISBN 978-0-19-532341-2). To be submitted to the ‘Journal of Interreligious Studies.’ Introduction The book; ‘Religious Pluralism, Globalization, and World Politics’ was published in 2008 by Oxford University Press. It…

end this is how he ends up dead. These readings have been dark yet include many intricate details of life lessons involved with them. No Exit has a very existentialist background to it. Existentialism is a theory that involves one's existence based off of the individual person through their own development. The three characters in this play; Joseph, Estelle, and Ines all end up locked in the same room with no reason as to why. Yet existentialism relates to them all as to why they are…

Every piece of writing has its own genre. The purpose, audience, topic, and other factors all contribute to which conventions the author will use in order to convey the genre or message. For example, if the author is trying to persuade his audience to believe in let’s say, his religion, he might use a personal experience that changed his life to explain why they should consider believing in his religion. In Jonathan Foer’s personal essay ‘Against Meat’, he uses personal anecdotes and a nostalgic…