Psychology of religion

I 've never bought into the belief that you can 't be spiritual and rich at the same time. A lot of people I know feel that it 's their obligation to be poor because they are so spiritual. They feel like money will corrupt them and turn them into a greedy and unethical person. I feel like making money doesn 't turn into someone like that - you either are someone like that or you are not before money even comes into the equation. That was a thought reverberated in the Spiritual Laws of Money…

excellence of something? One noticeably valuable and monumental characteristic of arête is religion and what it means to be religious. For this interview I chose to examine my mother, Sandy, knowing she would have the capability to produce knowledgeable answers relating to the means of being religious and the potential connections they have to excellence. Growing up my family was always committed to religion, not in a crazy and impractical way, but in a go to church every Sunday, pray at the…

Christianity and Islam are some of the most well-known religions in the world, and often thought of as completely separate. However, in actuality, they share as many resemblances as they do distinctions. Islam’s beginnings came about before Christianity. Christianity was created after Jesus came to the earth. Thus, Christianity was founded a couple centuries after Abraham formed his family. Christianity is a religion that bases its teachings on the those of Jesus Christ. Whereas, Islam is a…

Animals are seen as objects as oppose to living beings that deserve to make an ends of themselves. There are objectors, such as Kant, a deontologist that believes that animals do not deserve moral consideration because they have no intrinsic value such as rationality and autonomy. Since objectors like Kant believe that animals do not think for themselves or think in a logical way they hold another objection, that nonhuman animals are unable to respect others rights or show moral reciprocity…

Religion in Relationships Many ask why they are who they are, how they became who they are, and what changed them. Someone becomes who they are by the people around which they surround themselves with and how they choose to take in what those around them are saying. Many people can just go with the flow and be the center of attention, while others have to go the extra mile to get into the “in crowd.” But should that stuff even matter? Shouldn’t it just be about what or who makes you happy?…

Is destruction a human quality or is destruction based on gender? The texts Pinhook written by Janisse Ray and the poem “The Bees” by Audre Lorde offer interesting commentaries on this thought. Through the creation of specific power hierarchies and using the binary of submission versus domination in the context of human interactions with nature and interpersonally, the authors provide criticism of inequalities they see in the society around them. Based on the both of the authors’ backgrounds in…

In paper 1, I mentioned that achieving personal life goals is the highest good and morality is determined by the number of people considering an action good. Happiness is not the highest good because there exists people who make decisions like suicide that do not aim at happiness. If happiness is the highest good then no one would make any decisions that do not bring him happiness. In addition, life goal is a goal that one believes it is worth to spend his life to achieve. For example, in…

study of other religions. I am thankful that I took a different look at the purpose for the course. I have learned a lot over the last seven weeks. This course taught me a lot about the rituals, practices, and history of other religion and even some things about myself. My perspective has definitely changed. So much so that I have ended my interfaith relationship. Through the readings in the course and the assignments, my fiancé provided me with material to read about his religion. The more I…

This film is far from dull. This film was greatly disapproved by church officials for the method’s used by Bellocchio. He portrayed the complete opposite of what Italian tradition and religion stands for. But did he also show a glimpse of reality behind closed doors? I understand why religious wise this church would be offended, but on a more societal view, I believe this film is an eye opener. The painted portrait of Italian culture…

New Revelation Sects, imported religions, golden age movements, and finally, hybrid religions. “Reactive Movements” are those movements that involve a response to stress, usually social or political (Ellwood, 2013)”. It means one party feels threatened by a change in their way of life, and therefore they act in response to the change. For example, in North America, the…