The Importance Of Hierarchy And Equality In Religion

over women, and this can be seen in various ways. One might even say that it was through religion that the relationship is carried on throughout everyday life. Some of these religions that exemplify the superiority/ inferiority relationship are: Christianity, Buddhism, and Islam. An example is in the Bible where God took man’s rib and made woman. Also in the religion, Islam, woman were not even allowed to worship with the men. Lastly, many people in the Buddhism religion think that women are just possessions and treat them terribly because of that.

Equality starts to become self-reliant. He searches for knowledge and relies on himself and his discovery for joy. Page 52 says, “We Equality 7-2521 have discovered a new power of nature, and we have discovered it alone and only we know it.” (Rand 52). Although searching for knowledge is valued in Christianity, Equality’s beliefs still differ from the Bible. Equality directly defies authority and only relies on himself as the ultimate authority. However, Romans 13: 1 says, “Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except God, and those that exist have been instituted by God.” In comparison with Equality’s beliefs, Equality is making himself the ultimate authority instead of God. Romans 12:2 also states, “That you should not be conformed to this world, but transformed by the renewal of your mind.” Similarly, Equality is respected but not conforming to

The world of the ancient Near East believed in a creator deity as member within a plethora of deities; that is, there was no supreme being. Within this plethora, each deity held a specific responsibility, representing such matters as order, justice, love, and truth, to name but a few. Among ANE inhabitants, according to Philip J. Nel, “a normative principle of justice was maintained as part and parcel of the created universe. The human life-world and the order of nature were seen as inextricable entwined.” It is not surprising, therefore, how ancient civilizations understood justice to be a concomitant attribute of a deity within a pantheon of deities; a pantheon where members had origins and, in most instances, were familial in nature. According to their understanding of creation, ancient civilizations held views on social and economic justice as a means that would “facilitate the service of the community to the divine world.” Nel observes that, “The principle of justice was . . . not so much regarded as a system of moral order, but rather the assumption of an existing/created autonomous design/order which should be upheld and adhered to in all sectors of society.” The Sumerians, and the Egyptians, serve as examples.

Cleverly, Gaines addresses the concerns of change, menace of ignorance and the role of religion in the South during James’s encounter with the preacher and college student in the dentist’s waiting room. Gaines introduces a college student, likewise known as “that boy with that book,” a character foreshadowing the emerging transformation in American society as more people have the opportunity to pursue education (5). Equally important is the preacher. Though his skin color remains conceal, it is infer he is a man of color seeing the office “is where most of the colored people come” (5). In contrast to the student, the preacher represents an earlier generation of Black males that affirms the social norm and exercise religion as a means of peacefully avoiding confrontation. One of the dilemmas facing society is people lack questioning of White authority. Obeying white people is an idea express for an extensive amount of time. In a way, any idea of repulsing suppression is obstruct due to the fear of a developing society. According to the student, everything should be questioned, “every stripe, every star, every words spoken” (5). The student protests against the preacher, “you believe in God because a man told you to believe in God… a white man told you to believe in God... and why… to keep you ignorant so he can keep his feet on your neck” (6). As long as the preacher continues to believe in God, he is indeed a victim to white male suppression. Moreover, the student explains to the preacher, “as long as you listen to what your heart tells

This paper argues that Utilitarianism is a better ethical theory than many others proposed like the Divine Command Theory, which is the concept that morality is tied strictly to God and Immanuel Kant’s Duty Defined Morality, which has two distinct moral imperatives, because utilitarianism focusses on the benefit of the many which far outweighs the well-being of a single person.

Religion is one of the most important components of culture which has been used in understanding the universe, natural phenomena, what to die for and how to dwell among other people. Religion can be considered as culture by itself because it provides the set of values, beliefs and guidelines for specific behavior (Samovar, Porter, McDaniel & Roy, 2013, p.40). Religion helps to control the social behavior, maintains conflict, supports emotions and gives explanations to unexplainable.

As Judaism is one of the world’s biggest and complex religions, it goes to say that it has changes over time as well. We see first see Judaism in the second century before the birth of Christ, and this is predominantly only in the Middle East. This is in the time of Abraham, when there were no actual Jews at this time, and most of the ancestors of Jewish people were nomadic Semitic tribes that would roam through the Arabic desert. It was to Abraham that God chose, spoke and made His covenant with. God told Abraham that he would have sons and that his family would live out their lives on the land of Canaan. Abraham himself was a leader of one of the Semitic tribes and he had two sons, first Ishmael and the younger was Isaac. A

The Jewish hierarchy system consists of 7 levels. The highest one being a Rabbi then Chazan, Gabbal, Kohein, Levi, Rebbe and Tzaddik. Each of these people provides different roles to the Jewish community.

Many individuals in modern times have moved away from identifying as religious and towards identifying as spiritual. This is an event which coincides with the increasingly popularity of liberal values, such as freedom of choice, individuality, and equality. People have begun to value the freedom to choose what they believe over the structure provided by religion and sought a way to liberalism through spirituality. The notion of spirituality utilized by religious practitioners offers them a pathway to liberalism by allowing them to attain a liberal sense of higher purpose in their lives and retain individuality, but ultimately lead to the creation of the same precepts present in religion. Spirituality provides people with the sense of creating

Religion supports the political authority and social elites through enabling fear to the lower classes of society. It provides the leaders of these civilizations the ability to produce fear in the lower classes of religious retribution, painting their idols as ruthless beings who when summoned, would end one's life at the hand's of the leader(s). Only the social elites have the ability to provide this religious retribution, thus allowing them to have control over the lower classes. However, this is not always the case. The adoption of certain religions by political leaders actually limited their restrictive rule over the lower classes.Many of the elite followed the demands of their religion, thus not allowing themselves the opportunity to more

According to Christian Scripture, women are presented as equal to men. This essay will show that the Christian Scriptures routinely outline parallel expectations for both genders, that the content of these expectations fail to promote one gender as superior to the other, and that the equality of men and women is made possible because of a common identity in Jesus Christ.

The Cosmological argument argues for the existence of God a posteriori based on the apparent order in the universe. For Aristotle, the existence of the universe needs an explanation, a cause, as it could not have come from nothing. Nothing comes from nothing so since there is something, there must have been some other thing that is its cause. Aristotle rules out an infinite progression of causes, so, that led to the conclusion that there must be a First Cause. Likewise with motion, there must have been a first cause; Aristotle calls this the ‘Prime Mover’. There is a God, says Aristotle -for how else does motion begin? Whilst this argument does generally offer some support for the existence of God, it does not prove his existence.

In this chapter, we discussed and learned about religion and its impact on ethics. There are three thesis ideas on how religion affects morality. The first thesis states religion is irrelevant to ethics. The second thesis is called the Divine Command Thesis, it explains that religion is necessary for ethics. Religion can enhance morality is what the third thesis claims.

How can the sociological approach to religion help us understand the world in which Martine and Philippa live? The sociological approach to religion is separated into two distinct categories: quantitative methods, and qualitative approaches. I believe that we can better understand Martine and Philippa’s world through qualitative approach. One of the main observations I had was, the relationship between their religion and economic status. The sisters, and the rest of the community looked as if they lived in poverty. The members of the church never seemed to indulge in anything (besides the feast at the end of the film). Overall, the community seemed to be supportive, and were regularly there for each other.

The goal of this paper is to take a look at several different religions in an attempt to gain an understanding each religion in regard to their creation stories. The paper will consider the creation stories of 7 specific that range from western religion to more native religion. Specifically, the paper will discuss the creation story provided by Christianity, Islam, Native Americans, Africans, Hebrew, Chinese and Indian. It will provide insight on religion and what is believed about creation. It will also take into account the differences and similarities of the different religions. Ideally, it is believed that almost all religions are interrelated. They are either variations or parallel to one another. Particularly, in terms of stories, rules and overall beliefs.