That being said anyone who is religious would feel uncomfortable while watching “Religulous”. The name to me was well thought out but offensive, “Religulous” a portmanteau or blend of the two words, religion and ridiculous. To me the movie should have actually been called “Christian Bashing Featuring Some Other Religions for Split Seconds” by Bill Maher. I wrote down many of his questionable quotes that are almost intelligent. Bill Maher is a smart individual but an agnostic can only promote what they know which means not very much when it comes to religion.
When artists portray images revolving around religious icons the image may turn into something highly controversial. It is true that the constitution does give Americans freedom of speech as well as expression but there is always a fine line between pushing the envelope and burning it and sometimes these artists burn it completely. The artist who constructed the image for the Blake Prize for religious art constructed an image of the portrait of Jesus with the face of Osama Bin Laden. The image’s controversy is one that deserves analyzing because of the context of the image as well as the reaction to the image. Throughout the analysis one must keep in mind that this image was meant for a contest of religious art.
What social phenomena are neglected from this perspective? The conflict model of society focuses on competition instead of cooperation, which inevitably leads to conflict. 3. What are the potentially divisive forces in society? Religion almost always forms divisions among societies, and that is one example demonstrated in this chapter.
It is both the overstepping of a line and the failure to reach it-both transgression and shortcoming. In sin, people attack or evade or neglect their divine calling. Sin is the disruption of created harmony and then resistance to divine restoration of that harmony. Above all, sin disrupts and resists the vital human relation to God.” (Driscoll & Breshears, 2010, pg.148-149) Sin is any act or decision which distances us from our Holy Father. Now we have a bit of an idea what sin is, but where did it come from, and how was it spread throughout all mankind?
Popper wrote the foundation of the principle, but flew went a bit further with it. He was influenced by Popper but Flew applied the falsification principle to religious language and derived the conclusion that religious statements are no more than words with little to no significance. He then goes on to modify John Wisdom's analogy of the intangiable gardener to illustrate his point that religious believers cannot be convinced against God and their belief in him. Flew says that a religious believer is forced to say that “God's love is incomprehensible” when they are faced with the argument that God allows the death of a child due to an inoperable illness. He also goes further to say that “religious believers are allowing their definition of God to 'die a death of a thousand qualifications'” which would suggest that Flew believes that religious believers will use any 'qualification of God' to explain certain happenings in the world.
According to the documents 4 and 10, an underlying cause to the reformation was the sale of Indulgences. In document 4, the German Prince states," the pastors only care for nothing but sheep fleece, and they fatten on sins of the people." This shows the anger by German princes over the selling of indulgences by the catholic priests. In addition, the painting in Document 10 shows a widespread abuse of the sale of indulgences. Another underlying cause to the reformation would be the abusive Church authority.
It is also because the words express the deeply held views of a wide swath of conservative Christianity. Buchanan’s speech epitomizes the Religious Right’s general view of the “culture war”—as a “religious war”3 that manifests itself on many “cultural” fronts, most urgently abortion, homosexuality (especially, now, marriage equality), education privatization, and curriculum content of the public schools. So the culture war is not simply conflict over abortion or gay marriage. It is a one sided war of aggression against the civil rights advances of women and minorities and the rights of individual conscience that we generally discuss under the rubric of religious pluralism and of separation of church and state. For these political aggressors, war is not merely a metaphor or the equivalent of a sports analogy.
Source 3 takes a more deep routed approach when explaining the main cause and comments on how the caste system has led to dissatisfaction within the seapoys. This source subtly points towards religious differences being a problem your religious purity aided towards what caste you were then set in. An area of agreement between all 3 sources is that they all comment on triggers of the Indian mutiny 1857, they also suggest that it was in fact religious differences where the most important cause. Source 1 questions the ‘vaunted purity’ of a Brahman ( an important religious figure) about the cartridges and if he were to ‘tear these open with
It affects us from our body, to our mind and will. This is known as the doctrine of total depravity. This doctrine is popular amongst various evangelical groups. Many Christians maintain that a historical examination of Christianity will reveal that a biblical view of the fall requires affirmation of the concept of original sin. Humans therefore sin because we have a corrupt and fallen nature.
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.