Statement of faith

The idea of reification stems from taking something abstract and making it concrete. Throughout Wilfred Smith's book The Meaning and End of Religion, he stresses his theory about religion being established upon reification. He portrays that each individual has their extent of spirituality and religiousness whether it demands scientific proof or not and that people tend to categorize the aspect of religion into one box. In several religions, there is a tendency for people to associate religious…

I was born in a house that was very religious, our everyday life was largely influence by the teaching of religion. So naturally myself worst was deeply rooted in the Christian way of life. But all this change when I got older and got exposed to other way of thinking, and started to have debate with my father about religion and the bias people have when it comes to living a good life. I believe people can live a moral life and achieve morality without out being religious. When it comes to…

Again, Antonio narrates the ominous encroachment of the three mangled characters with his questions (Anaya 258). His questions confront his confusion over God's benevolence and justice. The unrealistic depiction of the three men parallels Testa's statement that the dreams "lose the context it had in life and become fused, distorted, and transformed" (Testa…

Though, when Jose Cordeiro asked Clarke what he thought about religion in general, Clarke replied “Religion is the most malevolent of all mind viruses. I am afraid to be struck by lightning one day while saying this” (Cordeiro). The slight skepticism in this quote is manifested in Clarke’s short story The Nine Billion Names of God. In this story, the Dalai Lama calls a man to create a machine that will print out all of the names that describe God in a specific language that the monks had devised…

T.J. LeBlanc 325171965 IDC4U1-02 December 18, 2018 Sociological Understanding of Religion Religion is a prevalent topic in sociology, with Emile Durkheim and his functionalist theory, Karl Marx and his conflict theory, and Max Weber and his symbolic interactionist theory all having their own opinions and perspectives on the topic. While their views on religion do have quite a few differences when compared with each other, there are some similarities among their views and opinions that point…

critical that schools do not ban these books, because allowing students to reflect on these ideas helps them define their personal opinions. After all, no school can force a student to believe anything even if they ban books contradicting their statement. Students will believe what they want anyway. This is a key topic in Adriana Lopez’s article, “Literary Censorship in Schools Impedes Progress”. She argued that schools should not hide these books from students because they will still experiment…

Religion is a set of morals, rules, behaviors and ethics shared by a community that are based on stories about a higher power that serve to guide its followers into a good path and outlook in life. The word religion itself doesn’t have a true meaning for me, it is a set of many words and meanings inside the religious branch. We can define religion by different contexts like ‘what is religion spiritually, politically, personally’, among other forms. “The language of religion has a great variety…

backing whatsoever. In essence, clients/patients may feel that the only one that should heal them should be done through prayer, fasting, reading etc. A method I though was interesting to combat clients such as these was, if they are of Christian faith, introducing may a scripture or two to help put them at ease or even suggest that God is ok with them using other outlets for healing because God endows others as being vessels to help…

This is once more the idea of spirits- bad ones at that- may be just in the shape of the blackbird and if a stone would hit it would want to come and do bad things to the thrower and their family. Again a quick search of the bible and the Christian faith we won’t see any mention of this or birds but it is still something that is passed down from mother to daughter and so on. It is interesting that they meld things like this so easily into the new religion. It would be much harder to push this…

In America; the land of the free comes into place for people as they set for a hopeful future for themselves as well as generations to come. With people bringing an influence on each other, it might come to no surprise when setting an example for young generations with rules and beliefs. Christianity and the Roman Catholic Church are some of the top religions practiced around America; some people might have different views that these religions could not possibly answer their questions. People…