Changes in Religion

death camps and the partisan warfare. The ghetto revolt lasted about five weeks. In 1945, the Anglo-American and Soviet troops rescued the surviving Jews from the concentration camps. Jews still ask themselves where was God during the Holocaust? If God is all just, then why did He not rescue them from the Europeans? Why did God not perform one of His miracles on them? Can the Holocaust be viewed as a fulfillment that was predicted in the Torah?

During the time period between 1550 and 1650, Europe had diverse changes. An important issue of this time was the change in the way people thought. Churches had high level of power due to people believing in the same religion. France. Italy, Germany & Scandinavia, and Spain were countries facing hard times as their ruling were changing.

“They are utterly silent in respect to a law which robs religion of its chief significance, and makes it utterly worthless to a world lying in wickedness.” Was the way people thought about religion in 1800s. Although religion is one of the most common topics it has changed during time but some actions have not.It has been difficult for people to gain respect on their own beliefs. However, not everything today has changed, people are still considering others people's beliefs are lower than theirs. Religion from the present time compared to the 1800s has changed drastically.

Throughout time, Christianity has changed constantly. In order to survive, Christianity has had to evolve and split. It has split into many denominations, some of which have become extinct over the centuries. The religion has changed and divided due to influential people and events in time.

Some people, e.g. atheists, find it unreasonable to remain at all religious after the Holocaust. For example, atheists often think that it makes little sense to believe in a God who allows such horrific evil to occur in his world. This belief ties in with the ‘problem of evil'; an omnipotent (all-powerful), omnibenevolent (all-loving) and omniscient (all-knowing) God would be able to prevent evil and would want to. So, why wouldn't he? This omnipotent, omnibenevolent, omniscient God as described in the Torah cannot logically exist at the same time as evil or he wouldn't have let evil ever exist. Therefore, it does not make sense to believe in a God who clearly isn't the God he's meant to be. Furthermore, the God designated the Jews as his chosen people in Abraham's covenant with God (Genesis 12-17) and later on in Deuteronomy. If Jews are God's chosen people, then why would he allow an event where over six million Jews died to happen? It would be cruel and stupid to let so many of his people die, further proving that he is not an omnipotent, omnibenevolent, and omniscient God at all. In the Noah's Ark story (Genesis 6-9), God destroys almost all of humanity to eradicate evil in the world so that no more suffering at the hands of evil could occur. This clearly cannot be true as the Holocaust caused great suffering, despite God supposedly destroying evil previously. Alternatively, in accordance with the belief that God has a plan for everybody, he intended for Hitler to do the Holocaust and for six million Jews to die, showing he is not omnibenevolent. This means that believing in a God who allowed the Holocaust to happen must be unreasonable.

Religion can be powerful under the right certain circumstances for social change. However it can be argued that religion can be a conservative force.

Emerson was an author in nineteenth century America; society and the church during that time were very different and much more conservative compared to society and religion in modern times. In the time that Emerson wrote Nature, religion greatly influenced law because it gave people ways to live, and a majority of the populous viewed those guidelines and beliefs of the church as laws, while as now the beliefs of the church are viewed almost as guidelines. Emerson was partially correct in his statement that says ethics changes, while religion stays the same in that that ethics changes with time, but religion does not change, but instead religion changes over time, though it takes extended periods of time for any major changes to become noticed.

Since the sixteenth century, the Spanish expanded their religious, Catholicism, to the America and settle their belief into the Native American. During the time period of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the religious upheavals caused many changes in the society not only in the America but also some Europe countries. This put a huge impact on the life of people in many countries.

Many people believe the United States is becoming a "Godless" culture. The argument is that we are losing our moral values, because religion is not an important part of our life anymore. This is the view of most Fundamentalist Christians and right wing believers. I vehemently disagree with this argument. I say this because there are many ways to practice religion. We have many ethnic populations in our country with many different religions. Because of this, there are many beliefs that differ from the Christian based or religions of only one god. Therefore, our country is not becoming Godless, there are many ways to practice one's faith.

Americans have been believing in God less and less in recent months, and new research is shedding light on why that may be.

Asoka’s son, Mahinda converted many leaders such as the king of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) which is said to be the longest and oldest tradition of practicing the religion

Throughout the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries, religion changed through each empire and time. In these times, there were people with the religion of Hindu, Judaism, Christianity, and Muslim (which contained two sects: the Sunnis and Shiites.) Three empires during this time included the Ottoman Empire, the Safavid Empire, and lastly, the Mughal Empire. These three empires between the 16th and 18th centuries were different and similar in many ways, however all three had different outlooks on religion and were very diverse. They were diverse because each ruler had his own opinion about religion and made the whole empire follow whatever he thought, meaning that each empire had a different amount of religious tolerance, if any at all. The Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal Empires varied in their views about religion.

According to data from the Pew Research Center, Americans are becoming less religious, but, simultaneously, more spiritual. Often described as “nones,” these individuals have rejected the trappings of institutional religion, yet still feel “a deep sense of spiritual peace and well-being as well as a deep sense of wonder about the universe.”

Christianity is far from what many might call a perfect and successful religion. Saying that it has been completely accepted, unchanged, and resolute since the beginning of the A.D. times would be false. Events like the murder of Christians within the gladiator games of the Roman Circus and the need to create the Edict of Milan show this clearly. Not only this but it has changed over time, as shown with the events of the Iconoclast Controversy between the Roman Orthodox and Catholic churches when differences in what should be allowed within the Christian worship. Christianity is not a successful, untouched religion. It was certainly not wholly welcomed at the time of Christ’s birth , people have been persecuted and treated terribly for having that as their religion, and not everyone has accepted it as

Religion has changed dramatically over the past few decades. Where years ago, it was limited to a few specific set of beliefs in which the majority of people conformed to and few people deviated. Nowadays, religion is immeasurable and varies depending on where you live. Despite all the changes, there are a few basic elements that every religion follows such as; a set of stories, sacredness, community, belief of a higher power, rules/ethics, offer hope and a way to connect with the divine. Although the building blocks are the same, each organizations, religious practices and beliefs are unique.