Personal Experiences And Beliefs Related To Religion

I do not have the answers to religion, but neither does anyone else. I can tolerate other peoples beliefs but once it becomes a problem in society, I am against it. I do believe that there is a spiritual being out there but is not influencing on human life or natural disasters. I have yet to understand this world and its strange occurrences. Even though I am against the notion of religion, I want to be proved

I was born into a Christian family but over the years my faith has changed and been shaped by my experiences of learning in Christian schools and environments. I think it has had a profound effect on who I am as a person and it has definitely shaped my outlook and perspective on my life.

Similar to the way in which people can choose from a wide assortment of religions, there are also many ways of viewing religion. One of these view points is existentialism, which states that where there is faith, not matter what in, a person has a right to make there own chooses. Many believe that this individual freedom then leads to risk in faith and often times doubt that cannot ever be separated from faith. It would be like having a huge tangled ball of two different colored string, However, you only want one of the colors, so you work relentlessly to untangle this massive ball. Yet when you have finally finished, you realized that there never were two different stings. There is only one string that is both colors. It is the same with faith and doubt, no matter how hard you work to remove doubt from faith they will still be the same piece of string. In his work “Saint Manuel Bueno, Martyr,” existentialist writer Unamuno discusses this entanglement of faith and doubt. While it is important to recognize that faith can not exist without doubt, I believe it is more interesting to analyze if doubt can exist without faith.

Engaging in personal religion does not always indicate low stress levels. A study of how clergy members in the United Reformed Church in England. Charles et al (2009) questioned about their work satisfaction, stress level, definition of “burnout” (p. 140), triggers of stress, ways of keeping healthy, and how the church helps to alleviate the stress. The drawn conclusions were high stress, lack of work-related psychological services, and frequency of psychological burnout among clergy members must be addressed by the church. Another factor that was presented in the study is although membership and clergy members have significantly reduced, there has not been a corresponding reduction of members. Therefore, there are less clergymen that are trying

The two forms of secondary socialization that I have chosen are Peer groups my experiences and the the effects, relating to a lack of peer acceptance. For my second form, I chose to discuss my experience and the after effects of religious influence on my life.

Learning about other faiths is the best way to learn about each other. To fear examining other faiths is to fear other people. In my religious practice, Methodist, such fear would neglect an important principle - “love your neighbor as yourself.” In the process of getting confirmed, my confirmation group went to visit, Agudas Achim of Iowa City, to experience another religion. Agudas Achim is a Jewish denomination, which at the time was located downtown Iowa City, 602 E. Washington Street. The Agudas Achim Synagogue relocated and is now at 401 E. Oakdale Blvd. in Coralville. They moved because the building was falling apart and kept getting flooded. We visited a Shabbat service Friday evening, on February 22, 2013. This service was nothing like I have ever experienced before.

Religion and faith are often used hand in hand, but the two are very separate things. They can work together, or may be used separately, if at all, by a person. Religion can be defined as being “tied or bound by obligations to whatever powers are believed to govern one 's destiny.” While personal faith is something that one believes in, without proof or reason, but they are not bound by obligations. The major differences here that I will be discussing is that of written word, obligation, and practice.

There are many different religions around the world like Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, Atheism, Islam, etc. In my opinion all human beings have some sort of their own personal philosophy that is guided mainly by their religion, if they have one. Also each individual has gone through certain events that shape you as a person and create their unique personal philosophy. In my case, my personal philosophy mainly revolves around Catholicism.

Religion has been a topic that I have struggled with all my life. It was always a subject that I never had much interest in learning as it was not stressed to me as a child and because of this I have found myself to be ignorant to the practices of the major religions of the world. Stephen Prothero’s book God is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World has helped me to develop a greater understanding of major religions like Islam, Confucianism, and Judaism. He was able to provide the basic ideas and stories of religions in an organized and simple manner that made it easy to understand the foundations of each religion. Prothero also explains the problem, solution, technique and exemplar for each respective religion to further develop that understanding. This was a great way to explain the major principals of these religions and educate those who are unfamiliar with them. Of all the religions Prothero presents us with in the chapters, the one I found to be most interesting was the one on Judaism.

I was raised in the church. Every Sunday and bible study I was there faithfully. Every church event I was there, I spent a lot of my holidays at the church. When I was a little girl I thought it was only one religion and that was Christianity. I thought that it was one God every one worshiped I didn’t quite understand that it was different religions and people had different views. When I got older I started to realize people beliefs were way different than what I knew. So I questioned my family and then they explained it to me that there were many types of religions. No one around me never really voiced his or her opinion about religion until I got into high school. In English class I had a lot of friends that I knew and hung out with in this class, when we are hanging out in school religion isn’t something my friends and I just sit there and discuss. The topic in English happens to be religion. The teacher went around the room and asked everyone to tell what religion they are and explain. One of my close friends name Jhoni said she’s “atheist” she even went on to say “church is stupid and god didn’t make earth and it was already here” she even said “we evolved from monkeys” now from what I know an “atheist” doesn’t believe in God. I could not believe that she didn’t believe in God. Then all of the stuff she said after that really hurt me and I couldn’t believe I was friends with somebody whose thoughts were that deep about something I believed in and loved so much. As soon

Ever since adolescence I’ve always admired the earth that we live on. How the grass grows and the animals move was always mesmerizing to me. Through religion, I’ve always had a large respect for nature and the all the beings that live amongst us. Religion has always been a large part of my life. As a child, I had always been a member of the catholic church and was very devoted to my faith. Although I was told as a child that God was the creator of everything and everyone but, as I started to learn the theories and origins of the world and the universe everything came into question.

Religion is a very interesting topic which is the very reason that I decided to write about it. It is a theme that could be written about for days which makes it difficult to summarize into a short paper. To get a better understanding of what religion is, it is “a set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe, especially when considered as the creation of a superhuman agency or agencies, usually involving devotional and ritual observances, and often containing a moral code governing the conduct of human affairs” (Religion). In other words it is a believing that there is higher power or giving your devotion to a higher cause like nature. There were so many great writers that shared their beliefs and views of a higher power like Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas Paine, and Henry David Thoreau. These three writers revolutionized beliefs and thoughts about being minorities.

In the last century, air travel has allowed people to visit new places, businesses to expand globally, and made the world a smaller place.  A unique experience, passengers are assigned seats in close quarters with strangers, and often find themselves in close communion with people they would not normally converse with.  Occasionally, we may find ourselves seated with someone who has a drastically different view of the world than we do, and as Christians, we should be prepared to engage in those opportunistic discussions whenever they present themselves.  What if a seatmate asked me about my faith, asked me to explain my biblical worldview?

What is our identity and who are we? Is the question that most of us began asking to our self. In life, I have met with different kinds of people from different countries and different cultures. Among those people, the people of Muslim nationality are the most unique people I have met in life, as I observed their way of celebrating their religion Islamic its very different. It has been a wonderful experience learning about the culture that is very protective on how they perform their daily religious practices. From child to adult they have taken a chance to practice their religion, children on school and adult have a time that they perform their prayers which is always accurate no matter where they are. This group of people always supports their own community by sacrificing their wealth. They have their own rules and regulation which is set for the community in which everyone follows, that is very strict. various religions have different effects on communities, as we take a look into the Islamic religion, it has its own way of believing on their religion, in which this religious is unique in a community.

Welcome back to the second in depth look to Nicholas Holt’s religious life, and I think it is a bit more advanced and more theological. First, I would like to thank you for such an awesome semester it has been and how you have truly pushed me in ways that I never really thought about. Quite often, I would leave your class and deep thought and just confused because I was tested. Now, let’s get back to more about my life and how it has stayed similar, but also changed in ways.