Religious belief and doctrine

believers, and trust that He commands. Throughout history, disagreements on religious beliefs and doctrines have caused many violent political conflicts that have resulted in death and suffering on both sides. Not to mention the religious motivations of past genocides and present terrorist group. Power hungry people find positions of authority within their religion and use it to harm people, often disobeying the religious doctrines they swore to uphold. Families are ripped apart because of…

instituted within political institutions. I will discuss this argument by looking at the issues that arise from theocracy in Iran, specifically the incompatibility of theocracy and democracy, and the issue of entrenching political policies in religious doctrines and what that means for change. I will then examine the different forms that secularism can take. Firstly, by examining the forced atheism of Soviet Russia, and the Judeo-Christian secularism of the United States of America, looking at…

Through his pluralistic hypothesis, he describes and analyses different religious fields of the perspectives of Dalai Lama. Dalai Lama is the 14th head of monk of Tibetan Buddhism (Compson).Traditionally it has been argued that he has had several perspectives on religion as shown by John Hick. John Hick has addressed religious pluralism, religious skepticism in addition to soteriological inclusivism as part of the religious viewpoints as supposed…

grown up I continued to follow the practices of my religion as well as the Catholic beliefs. Christianity has been a religion that has faced many struggles. People judge it, yet it remains strong. Jehovah Witness’ is a religion that many people question and has been greatly judged by many because they don’t believe in the Trinity as we know as “The Holy Spirit.” This group is known for their exclusive beliefs. Their faith is a distinctive part from the faith of Christianity…

religions. In Knitter’s novel, his goal was to bring light upon a heavy topic and common theological problem called religious plurality. Knitter also intended to inspire people around the world to change their previous perceptions of other religions in order to try to delineate religious pluralism. In Knitter’s discussion about religious plurality, he encourages readers to try to view religious pluralism as a blessing that can potentially enrich their life, rather than a harsh problem. In order…

and ten years have passed since the separation was made and the question still arises, should the church and state remain separated? To protect the freedom of religion the church and state need to be kept separated or two-hundred and ten years of religious peace will have been wasted. The combination of the church and state is a violation of the constitution waiting to happen. The First Amendment protects religions by giving the American people the freedom to choose what…

The notion that God is dead has been disputed between proponents and opponents for centuries. One stalwart advocate of the belief that God is dead is Friedrich Nietzsche. Selections of Nietzsche’s Gay Science state, “God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for…

In every tradition there exists a religion, a system of belief beyond the grasp of man. Human beings have a desire for a supreme being, something they acquire through religion. Religion serves the purpose of quenching man’s thirst to be good and peaceful thereby creating some order. It does not matter how or when the development of man began, his overwhelming urge to worship has formed and will continue to give rise to more kinds of religious behaviors. Man’s need for religion is so powerful…

Bradstreet and Thoreau on Materialism: The Doctrine of Weaned Affections and Self-Sustained Simplicity Every Problem has a remedy, though this remedy often varies depending on the person who is presenting it. Factors such as their religious beliefs or their individual outlook on life determine what their remedies for a certain problem will consist of. The issue of materialism, a type of behaviour that has “the tendency to treat material possessions...as more important or desirable than…

reflects his beliefs. One of the many examples of this is Paradise Lost, a poetic representation of the creation and fall of man in the Garden of Eden written by Protestant clergyman, John Milton. It is not a completely accurate portrayal, since many of Milton’s descriptions and theories do not coincide with the Bible. Instead, it is simply a peek into Milton’s imagination of what it might have been like. Paradise Lost, despite being fictional, is heavily based on Milton’s very real religious…