Religious war

The impressions that I get about Christians, Jews and Muslims is that they all wanted what they believed to be the best thing for their people. They all fought wars against each other while they also benefited from each other. They all trade goods between then and help grow their communities and cities. Some were taken over and rebuilt and torn down again. The MUslims knew what they wanted when they invaded in 711, they most likely wanted everyone to end up being Muslim. In 732 Islam was…

In his book Fundamentalism, Steve Bruce starts by admitting that religion is a “very rich diet” for most. Most people are not willing to put their entire lives into religious traditions and choose instead to practice religion with few rituals, helping fund their religious communities, and trying to work with what their religious leaders say is a moral, good life. After all, not everybody can be a monk or priest, as there have always needed to be people keeping the secular life functioning,…

do wrong things. For example the Muslims suicide bombing, or the purists burning people cause they were not how the purists thought they should be. It is a fact that that one surefire way to get into paradise if you are a Muslim is to die in a holy war, and it is also a fact that the main reason that homosexual marriage is so taboo in our country is because we can not separate church and state in our government. How could homosexual marriage be such a detriment to your religion? For instance, if…

recent rise in secularism, specifically within the social frameworks of Western culture, religious and spiritual practices have repeatedly been pushed aside and neglected. Although followers’ adherence to religion has seen a significant decline (Altemeyer, 2014), the notions and practices usually attached to religion or spirituality remain relevant in contemporary culture. The relevance of these religious notions and practices are seen explicitly through examining mental health, observing…

feared that their children were losing their English identity. Some of the young people, falling into Dutch culture, forsook their families and became soldiers and sailors. Additionally, the Separatists were concerned that Holland and Spain would go to war against each other. Thus, a few, brave Pilgrims boarded the Mayflower, intending to sail to Virginia, but arrived at Plymouth in November of 1620. Because they arrived with an insufficient supply of food and it was too late to grow crops,…

In the introduction to the “Circular to Pastors of Methodist Congregations” it talks about how the Bible Society of Rowan County decided to take action to establish a committee to print and distribute Bibles all across the South during the Civil War. On June 23, 1861 a circular, which is an advertisement, or letter that is distributed to a large number of people was sent to the pastors of the churches in Rowan Country. This letter was to be read to the congregation about establishing a Bible…

secularization has not occurred in a linear trajectory in Canada, and points to the complexity of the religious climate in Canadian society. The study uses the results of the World Values Survey in order to analyze various aspects of religious life such as subjective religiosity, involvement in religious services and organizations, the role of prayer, religious beliefs, confidence in religious institutions and their advice, and how much influence people believe religion should have in politics.…

The Hughes Brothers imprint their religious point of view in their 2010 American post-apocalyptic film, “The Book of Eli”. In this dramatic tale Denzel Washington stars as Eli, a mysterious wanderer that carries the world’s only remaining copy of King James’s Bible. He ventures 30 years across a desolated post-apocalyptic landscape in the attempt of finding a safe haven for this sacred book. Determined to complete his mission, Eli’s quote “We walk by faith, not by sight” from the Bible conveys…

fact in the form of astronomy. Jesus ushered in the Piscean Age 2000 years ago. (The symbol for Pisces is the fish.) And now it 's time for another age, the Age of Aquarius (which symbolizes spiritual awakening). This "new" age isn 't just some religious or "New Age" belief; it 's pure astronomy. Astronomy tracks the Precession of the Equinoxes, the position of a reference point on Earth with respect to a cycle that takes approximately 26,000 years to complete (the cycle of the Zodiac). You can…

These Christians would have raised the cross as a banner against Saddam, Hitler, or Mao. There are church members who wanted to use preventative war to stop communist china from making atomic weapons before they could use them to endanger the United States. They would also advocate landing marines in Iraq before the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) got a strong foothold. Such anticipatory actions are based on the notion that our cause is consistently good, while that of our enemies is…