Native Republic, My Family Never Practiced Any Religion

The first articles, for example, have already opened my eyes to the movement of Christianity’s popularity. It fractured the cornerstone of my stereotypical idea of what a Christian looks like. A Christian may be anybody and, sadly, I was surprised by this. This led me to wonder how much any religion may differ among its followers when the ethnicity and regions are changed. I had not even cared to contemplate the ideas already presented in class but enjoyed the experience of knowledge being thrust upon me. As with biblical heritage, in which, I have used my knowledge of the bible long after the class finished, I am enthusiastic to the idea of learning something that could be applied to my everyday life. This class may differ, though, as the concepts learned may be applied to other religions, whereas, studying the bible was only good for

Being Hispanic and not growing up Catholic allowed me to be into many awkward situations in high school and college. Many people assumed that since I was Hispanic, I was also Catholic. All my friends were Catholics and I do not recall meeting someone who was Hispanic and not one. I was also intrigued with why this religion attracted so many people with different backgrounds. Before Sunday, September 18, 2016, I had never attended a catholic mass, in actuality I had never attended another church besides mine, and I am twenty-six years old. I purposely decided to go during their busiest hours, 12:00 P.M., because I wanted to obtain the entire experience. I knew Catholics worshipped other gods, like the Virgin Mary and Saint Jude. I was also aware of the use of the holy water and making the sign of the cross. My family and friends grew up not discussing difference about religions, so my knowledge was very limited.

On Monday, I went to the local Crossroads Baptist Church, located at 850 Edwards Ferry Rd NE, Leesburg, VA. This was my first time experience as I am Hindu and my parents never exposed me to any churches. Dr. Kenneth K. Baldwin was the pastor at the time I went. Luckily, I got the chance to speak with him after the service. After our brief conclusion, I realized that he had a great vision for his church and is leading it to success through his passion. I sensed his passion for preaching and religious beliefs as they were evident during the service. Despite this being my first visit to a church, I learned a lot of valuable things about churches and Christianity.

Beginning just before my senior year I went through a series of trials that continued through most of my senior year. I wanted to do something for myself, and was encouraged to attend the National Catholic Youth Conference (NCYC). I decide to go, and so in January I set off for Indianapolis. Once at the conference, I listened to music, met other catholic high schoolers, and participated in workshops. I learned a lot about my faith, and about different forms of worship. This was something that I had not previously been exposed to, as while I was a member of one of the largest parishes in Central Ohio, it is a very traditional parish that had not exposed me to much more than the basic teachings of the church, and also had not demonstrated

My choice for a building I feel is important to Florida's history is the Flagler Presbyterian Church located in St. Augustine Florida. Its founder, Henry Flagler was a multi-million dollar real estate investor and business man credited with being among the most influential contributers to the history of Florida's East Coast. For instance, Flagler founded The Memorial Presbyterian Church of St. Augustine in addition to financing many resorts and retail shops along Florida's East Coast many of which are still in use today. In 1888 Flagler hired John Carrere and Thomas Hastings to design, plan, and unbelievable construct the church in under two years. Being that both men were fans of the Venetian style architecture of the St. Marks Basilica Church

Hey Diana, I am writing this letter today with hopes to inform you about a religions course I am taking. I know you are a history guy so I thought it would be interesting to write about the religious history of America. The United States happens to be one of very few major nations in history to be founded and established on principles of separation of church and state. This book I am reading, “The Religious History of America”, by Edwin Gaustad and Leigh Schmidt, gives a great overview of the different strand of religious development in the United States. They are divided into four fundamental time periods: the Colonial times; the Revolutionary War to the Civil War; Post Civil War to

In recent days I had the opportunity to go back to North Carolina for a few short days. There, with a heavy heart from a loss in the family, I had nothing else to look towards. I’ve always heard of individuals finding peace, faith, blessings, and love of Christ from attending church. I’ve never been a person who put their faith into a higher power. As I was growing up my parents never wanted to force me into any religion without me knowing everything about it and choosing which route to take on my own. As the years treaded on, I never bothered myself to learn about the many different religions and what each stands for. So I used this opportunity as mine to attend church for the very first time. I attended the Roman Catholic services held

If this knowledge is not reaching western citizens through the Christianity, it will be necessary to find it somewhere else. While traditional religions almost always can offer a cosmology that connects man and nature, Native American spirituality may be very accessible to a society that is increasingly interested in environmental concerns but does not have a firm and direct qualitative relationship with the natural world.

For this paper I decided to sit down with my childhood friend from my St. Thomas More Catholic School days. Katarina and I have known each other since we were 5 years old. I remember attending church with her family on Sunday morning, spending the night at her house, occasionally attending her family's BBQ's on Easter Sunday, and inviting her to all my birthday parties at Chuck E Cheese. Though we lost touch after high school we found each other again thanks to social media. We are both from Hispanic Catholic families so it was always assumed that we would grow up to be Catholic too. To my surprise I found that on Katie's social media page under religious views it did not say Catholic as I expected but rather Wicca. Turns out Katie decided that the Catholic faith wasn't for her and opted instead to convert to Wicca.

When I had first read about this assignment, I was a little anxious to go to these meetings. mostly because I did not want to run into anyone that I had gone to high school, and since I am from a relatively quaint town, I knew that could be a possibility. However, the first meeting I had chosen to go visit was an alcoholics anonymous meeting that surprisingly was being held at my former high school. I had arrived early to settle into the back to make sure I would just observe and not disrupt the meeting. When it had started I was shocked that they started off by praying, I was not sure if all of them were from different religions. However, after I had read more into my readings it made sense to me why they had started off the meeting with a

For this interview paper I wasn't sure who I was going to interview at first. I was thinking of all of the religious places of worship in my home town of Sheboygan, but I wanted to interview someone I knew. So I decided to interview my roommate. I've known him since sixth grade, and he is a Lutheran. I was raised a Catholic and I had a lot of friends who were Lutheran. When I was a kid I really didn't think any differently about it, but now for this paper I get to interview a friend and see what his religion is all about and what he thinks.

I would choose to live in an Incan Empire. They were polytheistic. They did not start off as a big group, they were small. Their capital was at Cuzco in Peru. Their empire grew so much that they had to split up into several different ethnic groups. They started to charge taxes because of the mass increase in population. Instead of actually paying money for taxes, they would work it off by dong construction work or military services, for example the Machu Picchu. They had an emperor called Sapa Inca which was considered the "highest" and farmers were considered "lowest" of the social classes. They today take up half of Peru with their religion, also practicing an incan way of Catholicism.

Religion plays an important role in my life. I identify as catholic, but there are some thing that me and my family don’t follow. We don't go to church often and when we do it's only for important events. This is because we’ve had bad experiences with

In my later teen years, I moved to the United Kingdom and lived with my mother’s brother and his family. My new family was not a church going family and

Lastly, since I entered this university, I have developed my religious development level into post-conventional. Because I have lived in a dorm for international students as RA, I can meet people who have different ideas about their religion. For examples, some