Two Ways In Which Religion Less Important In Today's Society

From the start of civilization, religion has played a crucial role in the development of most societies. The proof of its influence is evident in the way daily life was carried out. Religion had the power to affect everything from social status to common law, thus dominating a large portion of the culture. In ancient Egyptian, Islamic, and Indian society, religion had the capacity to establish how the average person would conduct their daily life.

Simone De Beauvoir sees religion as oppressive to women and used by men to control women. She argues that religion compensates women for their second class status and they get a false belief that they will be rewarded in heaven and gain equality there. All these explanations show how religion promotes social conflict and oppression in society.

Religion in any time and has several profound influences on its society affecting the moral codes, gender relationships, and

“A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.” - Albert Einstein. While Albert Einstein is most certainly correct about the idea of religion not being a necessity for an individual or a society as a whole, religion still has a large influence over society whether it is necessary or not. And with the large influence of religion comes the large importance of religion.

Additionally, religion made it easier for those in power to stay in power which reminded me of the use of religion in the Handmaid's Tale. "McCabe and Bokonon did not succeed in raising what is generally thought of as the standard of living," said Castle. "The truth was that life was as short and brutish and mean as ever. "But people didn't have to pay as much attention to the awful truth. As the living legend of the cruel tyrant in the city and the gentle holy man in the jungle

This concept, though, is one of the largest components that religious people in America who wish to establish us as a Christian nation fail to understand or sympathize with. This is why football coaches praying with the team is not allowed. It makes some students uncomfortable. Some students may feel their right to speak up is constrained because they will get less play time if they go against the grain. For me personally, Oklahoma’s blatant endorsement of Christianity has made me feel incredibly uncomfortable wanting to join the legal profession. For starters, in order to look attractive to Law schools, it would be advisable to get a job with good experience. For many, that is a job working in the government, mostly in the District Attorney’s office or the Attorney General’s office. Everytime I see a Ten Commandments statue on the state Capitol (which has recently been removed) or I see “In God We Trust” plastered all over the capitol grounds, I am reminded that I am an outsider. I don’t belong here. As an outsider, I have seriously had to reconsider the prospects of a government job for the fear of subtly being discriminated against.

In my opinion, society is shaped by religion because it is the basis of people's everyday life. Religion helps to connect people because of it being the basis of their everyday life. In the United States in the year 2017, I think that our greatest contribution to western civilization is self -determination. The reason that I think that this is our greatest contribution is that people nowadays are using their self-determination to show what they believe in, whether this is good or bad it has a major impact on today’s western

However, no matter how sociologists and scientists view religion, there are a lot of people who will still believe in their own religion and that there exists a power that science cannot explain. For example, in an Islamic country such as Indonesia, government is organized base on what is appropriate according to Islam. Even though, there are a lot of people questions the existence of supernatural power and hundreds of books publish that study the scientific view of religion, government and people in that country still believe in their religions. Students at school also study about science and sociological perspective toward religion and almost every student still believe in their religion and practice it in their societies. Moreover, in US where freedom of speech is allowed and knowledge can be shared quickly by internet, every person in US knows about scientific study of religion but Christianity is still emphasized in everyday life. People may only view sociological and scientific perspective of religion as one of the knowledge that need to be known but doesn’t have to be practiced. Overall, the sociological study in religions does not undermine nor strengthen one’s faith. Other factors such as people who use religion to abuse people or control over people that may have made a person to change their view toward religion.

In today’s society, people are including less religion and faith in their daily lives. In fact, religion is apart of our culture. It plays an important role in our faith and culture despite how people secularize it. We learn where we descend from and how being religious had always been apart our whole life. Anthropologists included how religion helps us understand big questions in order of us to grow, be better people. So as to understand, we have religious rituals like receiving communion or even attending mass on Sunday’s. Society nowadays would rather separate from religious connection and influence. Society is slowly moving away from the Church but we can prevent that by showing how important religion is in our culture.

"Given the division of opinion on religion's contribution to American society, this present study seeks to shed light on the topic by making an estimate of religion's socio-economic value to society," the Grims said in the study.

In the United States culture and environmental factors rather psychology and personal characteristics. The nature of religion, belief, practice, and values, collectively describe lives, religion assist with explanation of life and provides salvation human existence and during inequalities. It will remain strong featured because it supply power, peace, fulfillment, prepare, protects strengthen, promote, build and restore family, relationships, and marriage. It’s also been a moral conscious awareness of emotion, language, and cosmology. I disagree when people with a belief or religion undermined nonbelievers or atheist by condemnation. I believe historical religion and prophecy. I’m positive that religion will remain because mental, physically

Religion can be defined as a pursuit or interest to which someone ascribes supreme importance. It contains a specific fundamental set of beliefs and practices that allow its followers to live their life a certain way. The world consists of 19 major religions, which are further subdivided into 270 larger groups. According to David Barrett et al, editor of the “World Christian Encyclopedia,” there are 34,000 separate Christian groups around the world. Just from those numbers alone, we can conclude that religion has a prevalent effect on people and society. Religion is viewed as a positive influence on an individual both psychologically and physically. Throughout history we can study the various effects that religion has on society. Studies generally provide great evidence in favor of religion having a positive effect on individuals and society as a whole.

Religion in the world has always been considered a rather important aspect of society. Although this is true, there are still people that question the existence of God. A survey done among 1000 people showed that 65 percent of Americans believe that religion is losing its influence on American life (Sheler, 8). Even so, Belief in a God is necessary for a moral society because since the beginning of history man has always made up some sort of role model to explain events and situations that seem inexplicable, God gives people a sense of comfort and hope to know they aren't alone, and when a society believes in a God, there is a religion behind it that gives ethics and values that they must

Religion in the world has always been considered a rather important aspect of society. Although this is true, there are still people that question the existence of God. A survey done among 1000 people showed that 65 percent of Americans believe that religion is losing its influence on American life (Sheler, 8). Even so, Belief in a God is necessary for a moral society because since the beginning of history man has always made up some sort of role model to explain events and situations that seem inexplicable, God gives people a sense of comfort and hope to know they aren’t alone, and when a society believes in a God, there is a religion behind it that gives ethics and values that they must

In the 1950s and 1960s, many social scientists and historians in the United States argued that Western societies were becoming secularized and that religion was fading out as an important part of public and even private life. But they were wrong. Religion has not only retained its importance for most people in the United States, it has become the subject of current public debate about national culture and political practice.