Secularism

The Armenian Genocide was an atrocity that took place during World War One. It features the Armenians as the victims and the Turks as the oppressors. Although the death toll is not official because of the conflicting results regarding it, there was somewhere in the neighborhood between one to one and a half million Armenians that were slaughtered, starved, or tortured to death between 1915 and 1923. However, some people in Turkey deny the killing of the Armenian people and even are so extreme…

Singapore is a secular state where her citizens are free to practice any religion. Secularism has allowed us to remain neutral in political matters concerning neighbouring Islamic countries like Malaysia and Indonesia. Being a secular state has thus resulted in Singapore’s public and government policies to be pro multi-racial and pro multi-cultural…

The disagreement over Westernization has had significant cultural and historical consequences for the entire Middle East region over the past few decades. Western culture being based on the rationalism, liberalism, human rights, secularism, etc. has little resonance within the Islamic civilization and often even contradicts it. Globalization is thereby raising people’s concerns about the massive influx of the Western values in Islamic countries. In fact, in Huntington and other Western analysts…

Controversial Veil Is the Burqa a safety risk for fundamentalism? Most non-Muslim people ask the question could there hide a terrorist under this mysterious cover? People of Western countries all over the world are terrified of the “Dark Black” veil over the entire face and body of Muslim women; Non-Muslim females feel threatened by the Ghost look cover which varies and comes in different form of shapes and colors and sizes. The most provocative intimidation look is when the veil is not…

wanted more freedom, but the aristocrats wanted compositions written to their specifications. Influenced by society, both compositions and performances changed in the Baroque Era. People today know the Renaissance for its four ideas: humanism, secularism, individualism, and skepticism. It took place from the fifteenth to seventeenth century (Kahanda). Most prevalent…

Renaissance; Kati Main topics •Evolution of Italian Renaissance ◦Florence= birthplace of Renaissance and very successful city state ◾Wool industry was major factor in city’s financial expansion and political increase ◾Dominated European banking ◾Florence still remained economically stable after Black Death, huge debt issues, and labor unrest ◦Balance of power among Italian City States Communes and republics ◾Northern Italian cities = communes (sworn associations of free…

for some individuals, it appears to be coherency of worldview along with intensity of belief and certainty in this worldview (whatever it may be), which appears to contribute positively to well-being. Thus, not only can strong belief in God provide psychological benefits, but also can strong nonbelief in God (Galen, 2015). Uzdavines’s found that individuals who were more “closed” to the existence of gods (i.e., sure there are not any) reported less struggles than those who were more “open.” Is…

spread all over Europe, the values of the movement spreading with it. The values of the Renaissance included ideals such as Individualism (the social philosophy the moral worth of an individual), Humanism (the study of greek and roman culture), and Secularism (the enjoyment of worldly pleasure). The Renaissance brought about rebirth and change within the world’s culture, and with the beliefs of Humanism and the impacts that science had on society, caused the world to think in more…

accomplishments including the industrial revolution and the scientific revolution. The modern world has also had its problems including overpopulation and poor work conditions created by the industrial revolution, and a decline in religion as a result of secularism. Aspects of modernity are bound to change, the most likely being medicine, eco friendliness,…

still have their freedom, they will die sooner. This shows that people will be able to do what they desire but slowly poverty, crime, and death will increase because there is no moral guidance nor boundaries on what the people should. That is why if secularism was true and theism was false, life would possibly be better with a higher…