Māori religion

On December 1 2015 at 4:38 AM my mother lost her brave fight against Cancer. I was initially going to talk to a pastor who lives next door to me. After my mother’s passing I decided to talk to my sister about her faith. We grew up in the same house, but our religious beliefs are very different, she is a believer and has faith and belief in God. I decided to talk to my sister about her beliefs and why she thinks we are so different in our beliefs. I already miss my mother and can’t believe…

The Chinese and Mesopotamian cultures comprise of various differing principles in the political and religious structures. However, there are certain comparable elements in the two cultures. Confucianism and the beliefs promoted by Gilgamesh are some of the elements that have enhanced these similarities. To begin with, Confucianism is a complex religious structure that conforms to the ancient Chinese values regarding religious aspects as well as the philosophical perspectives of Confucius. The…

Nurture includes things like, how friends, teachers, parents, religion and media effects a person’s morality. This essay will explore the long-debated topic of moral development being nature or nurture. Whatever moral development is nature or nurture has not only been debated in psychology but also in science. Many…

A society is a group of people living together in an organized fashion adhering to a particular structure. Each person living in this society has their designated place within the community and because of societal norms are expected to adhere to their position. Because of these societal norms, members of the community become shackled to the ways of their society. Bradbury and Plato argue that while the journey may be difficult and the obstacles to overcome scary, individuals must not become…

Justly or unjustly, humans live by a code of moral responsibility. We are deemed responsible for the actions we commit, and are given consequences for those actions. However, the nature of the free will vs. determinism argument can easily bring such a construct into question. In a philosophical sense, free will is defined as follows: a real capacity to choose among courses of action, allowing us to control and direct our actions in ways that reflect our deliberate choice or will. Conversely,…

The complexity of the human brain is something frequently taken advantage of by the majority of humanity. It is quite natural for man to not think of the mind’s fantastic powers; for as long as one remains in health there seems to be no meaning in contemplating what works so efficiently. However, poet T.S. Eliot argues in his poem “Rhapsody on a Windy Night” that these inner workings of the brain are in fact not so elusive, rather they are just so obvious it is easy for man to overlook them and…

Assuming things about someone else's culture is a hard case of how one's culture affects the way one views the world. This happens a lot with different texts like in Two Kinds, Hapa and An Indian Father's Plea. All of which have different cultural beliefs on the world and this affects the way they view the world. Modernization significantly impacts the way one views others around the world. Firstly in the novel excerpt “two kinds” by Amy Tan a daughter is pressured by her mom to be as good as…

If you had the ability to stop a crime before it happened are you morally pure because you stopped it or are you morally dirty because you refused to what needed to be done? How do we know what is moral and what is not? Morality consists of moral rules that you place on yourself. From research, I have learned that Kant, Mill, and Sarte all have solid views on what is right and wrong. Kant believes, “Only thing that is good without qualification is the good will.” The good will is the will to do…

Challenges The most significant challenge to living a life of love rooted in the Christian narration of reality is the dominant competing narration of reality in American culture, modernity. The ultimate narrative of modernity consists of two main subplots: consumerism and American nationalism. Each of these subplots presents significant challenges and obstacles to living a life of rightly-ordered love. Consumerism presents myriad problems in regard to developing a rightly-ordered love.…

This paper will examine William Lane Craig’s and John Hick’s assertion that the existence of suffering and the concept of a benevolent and omnipotent God are not mutually exclusive, but consistent phenomena. Christian theologians — in their attempt to constitute and defend arguments for the existence of a deity — assert that God, because of his depiction in Biblical literature, has unique characteristics and abilities. These characteristics include benevolence — “the quality of being…