Religion vs. Philosophy

Before Humanities 210, how would you have described the philosophies/religions that influenced your processes for decision making, thinking, and developing preferences? How would you describe your level of conscious choice and commitment to these philosophies/religions? What helped form or develop the belief in that philosophy/religion?

For most of human existence religion has been a key ideology that has this sort of power to bring individuals together and give them a sense of belonging. But during our same Human history it has shown us that we will go through great lengths to prove that we are right about about our beliefs against others beliefs and will be willing to do anything to prove it. The crusades was a hateful and terrible part of our human history that shows the worst that humanity can be. Because of this time period in our history thousands of lives were loss for false causes that tricked and used people through their faith to fight each other for multiple centuries for

Many people challenge others on their religious beliefs. Back in High School, there was this teacher that challenged me every time that I walked into class. We practiced the same Roman Catholic faith. One day She always told me that I was practicing my faith the wrong way. In my opinion, Religion should be practiced

The most common, (one of the most common) yet the most horrifying, displays of social injustices upon religions are genocides. During the 20th century, there have been many mass murders of people groups. Most were motivated to a significant degree by religious beliefs. A genocide that had a global effect was Adolf Hitler and the Nazi’s organized extermination of about 11 million people including 6 million

When we talk about Buddhism do we consider it as a religion or Philosophy and is there any connection between Religion and Philosophy?

As individuals we have a desire to believe in what we may. A person has the right as a human to believe in what he or she may desire. Even though there is an international obligation by law for people to respect one’s right to conviction in whatever he or she may desire, different radical and or rebellious individuals defy that obligation and practice proselytism. Everyone in the world, no matter what race, age, gender, etc. should have a certain limit of respect for one’s conviction itself and also right to conviction in whatever he or she may desire. Each individual has their own preference on what he or she may choose to believe in. And only under some circumstances should an individual disrespect another individual 's right to believe, such as an individual should have an obligation to have respect for one’s right to conviction but also there should be an obligation for an individual to not force their convictions upon another, either mentally, emotionally, nor and especially physically.

Radical religious groups, more specifically cults, have been terrorizing societies across the globe for many centuries with many more to go. Why do these groups feel the need to despise those who differ from their beliefs both intellectually and physically? Is it because they view the various texts of their religions to be comprehended 100% literally?

Over the years, even dating back a few centuries ago, there have been many cases of people doing truly horrific things. People from different backgrounds, cultures and races. But they all have one thing in common: their actions were justified (by some other people and themselves) in the name of religion.

Remember the killing and torture that the Jews had faced due to the discrimination that Hitler had persuaded them to have? Religious discrimination is real and still around. Why does it have to take the loss of numerous lives to occur before people realize that it’s around and that we must do something to end it? Numerous amounts of religions are being blamed and treated terribly due to the idea in people’s minds that they are not good people. Understandably, when hearing that a religious group is associated with terrible actions, you can’t help, but assume that all of them are bad. Religion is meant to bring peace and harmony among people and be able to teach one another’s culture, not bring hate and create inequality just because your beliefs are different. It’s like having a desire to kill your neighbor because unlike your carnivorous self, they’re vegetarians. Now that may sound extreme because we’re talking about food, not a religion. But how come we are able to respect each other’s views on what to eat, and not religion? How come people can convince other people to be vegetarian, but when people teach about their religion, all of a sudden people call foul? I mean, people’s beliefs are like food choices, it pertains to them not you. Who are you to say that their beliefs are wrong, or they’re bad people because of their beliefs? Remember, religion is meant to bring harmony, not chaos. If a person creates chaos, that’s their character, not their religion's

It is not uncommon for religious followers to be intolerant of another’s religious beliefs and practices. It is this kind of negative behavior which leads to exclusivism or excluding others from certain privileges or treating someone differently because of their religious beliefs. In some extreme cases, religious beliefs clash in violent ways. There are instances when people lose touch with the message and end up fighting for the symbol. If someone’s religious beliefs clash so strongly with another groups and one group is so

Before I started this research I knew nothing about this topic. The reason I wanted to learn is because to find a topic fast for my iSearch paper. What I did to find the answers was look on the internet, and I found some interesting stuff, so of course I wrote it down. What I did next is look in a dictionary and look up definitions for

To begin some definitions need to be established for the paper, so the reader can logically follow.

Religion has its shares of promoting violence. Many will argue that a cause of religion wars is for economic and political reasons, but others argue that those who start wars are, by definition, not religious. In reality, separating religion out of economic and political motives can be involved in such a way finding religious motives innocent of much. Excuses for Christianity responsibilities cannot be accepted whether the person has misappropriated the message of Christ. The primarily set of doctrines is not Christianity, but by living through past background it personified the visible actions of Christians. In other words, Christianity, Islam or any other religion has no intention of excusing from survey. Given certain conditions,

Religion binds people together in a negative manner, as opposed to being draw together in a peaceful, forgiving perspective.

However, there is another side to religion, one that is quite contrary to idea of unification and acceptance. When looking through the scope of history, we can also see religion as an exclusionary tool, often used to differentiate groups of people on an innate level. As many of these idealogies attempt to assert