Gandhi was a man that would “strain every nerve to make Truth and Non-violence accepted in all our national activities” (i.e. Gandhi, 358). He believed that if India could get out of control and show the world that progress could be made, he would show other nations that they too, could gain their own power as a self governed nation. Gandhi and Marx would agree on terms of having self governing nations because Marx’s main goal was Communism. While Marx thought that strength in numbers mattered and how many Proletariats could take down the Bourgeois class, Gandhi believed that “strength does not come from physical capacity” (i.e.
Wilson Ayala Mr. Roccanova Comedy & Satire 14 October 2011 Religion the Problem and Solution for Everything “I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen. Not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.” This quote by the famous author C. S. Lewis describes exactly how I feel about my religion. My religion helps me see the world clearly and gives everything life meaning. Religion can be split into one of two basic groups, polytheistic religions in which someone worships multiple gods and monotheistic religions in which the follower worships only one single God. Wouldn’t it be nice and easy if that were it, and that’s what religion is all about?
Religion has plagued the free will of humanity since its inception into civilization. The accepted norms and practices of societies throughout history are influenced and catalyzed by the professed doctrine of the controlling elite. This prescribed mentality, passed down from parent to child, creates a sense of superiority within the monotheistic world. At the same time polytheistic religious doctrine creates the same sense of delusion, however it does so quite contrastingly. Polytheistic religion creates an ideology of coexistence, given the fact that everything has a soul.
(Aldridge, 2005, p.60) Marx found what he believed to be a full explanation of religion in Ludwig Feuerbach’s work entitled ‘The Essences of Christianity’. The argument set forth by Feuerbach was that God was an extension of humanity; therefore Christianity was the vehicle to fulfil aspirations for perfection. Thus, the masses, in their worship of God, could project their wishes onto benevolent supernatural being. (Aldridge, 2005, p. 61) According to Karl Marx in his “Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right: “Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the feeling of the heartless world, the soul in a place without soul. It is the opium of the people”.
The tittle of the book is “Why Religion Matters: The Fate of the Human Spirit in an Age of Disbelief.” The author of the book is written by Huston Smith who is Huston Smith believes that scientism has infiltrated every aspect of modern society, from the media to the law to academia. By spreading their blinkered belief that science is the most reliable, if not the only, road to knowledge of the world, arrogant materialist scientists have abused the respect granted to them. Theology has been unfairly maligned. “My shelf of books on science for the laity,” he writes, “is as long as my shelves on each of the major world religions, but I will be very much surprised if you can say as much from your side. (p. 273)” Since Smith argues that he has
Paul in his concourses wrote about how fellow Christians should be portrayed. He tells us in Romans 1:18-3:20, that we are all sinners. Another idea mention by Paul was how God made a way for salvation to mankind. The Jews, at that point, was deeply interwoven with their faith, their whole individuality was bound in their belief structure whereas the Gentiles had multiple gods. Their personality was bound in the natural.
Ethics is a division of values dealing with right and wrong in human behavior. The majority of religions have a moral element, and religious advances to the problem of ethics traditionally dominated ethics over spiritual approaches. From the viewpoint of operative religions, to the degree that ethics stems from exposed truth from godly sources, ethics is considered as a branch of mysticism. Several trust that the Golden Rule, which coaches people to "treat others as you want to be treated", is a common denominator in a lot of key ethical codes and religions. (Banton) The phrase global
Religions has always been supported as the fundamental reliable source of truth which was supported and promoted by the Roman Catholic church, René Descartes the French philosopher, scientist, and mathematician challenged the churches authority to provide these truths, this created an era when the roman catholic church was challenged by many philosophers as the sole interpreter and providers of truths and findings from philosophers like Aristotle. “Martin Luther and the development of the Protestant Reformation presented a strong challenge to the dominance of the Roman Catholic Church and its authority to provide the sole correct religious truths.” (Mosser 2011) “The Aristotelian view of the nature of the physical world was also regarded as authoritative, but it began to be questioned by such astronomers as Copernicus, Galileo, and Descartes himself.” Although I consider myself a very religious person I will support my argument with less ideology and more inductive logic and reasoning. First we will discuss the definition of
The name Pi carries much meaning, to begin with the protagonist’s name is considered to represent the idea of irrationality in the field of mathematics. Throughout the novel, Pi is portrayed as a ‘religious child’. Pi’s believe in religious ideal is somewhat irrational due to the lack of evidence given by these beliefs. A well-known sociologist Karl Marx argues that religion “is the optimum of the people, since religious suffering is at the same time an expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering” (Karl Marx). What Marx means by religion being the optimum of the masses is that people tend to turn to religion for support.
In comparison to this view Marxists see society as promoting the interests of the ruling class and legitimating suffering and therefore preventing social change. In Marx’s words religion is the “opiate of the people” which makes their working class life more bearable. Feminists also agree that religion serves the interest of the powerful, however they believe this supports the social structure of patriarchy and legitimates women’s subordinate position. For example this is seen through Hinduisms support of arranged marriages and the Catholic Church’s banishment of abortion. In contrast Weber’s views suggest that religion has acted as a powerful force of social change.