One difference between the Democrat and the Republican Party is their views on family values. Family values within nations such as America normally have a religious basis, meaning personal choices are made based on ethical lessons taught within religious scripture, typically in western countries, the religion is Christianity. Family values is the concept of basing family rules or unofficial laws within families based on the cultural norm, - the family will normally impose house rules as to what is socially acceptable, based on the same teachings of their upbringing or religious belief. However, in a more liberal society, the term 'family value' has become more of a vague term, often seen as dated for a number of reasons,- such as Christianity no longer being taught within schools, or women's rights being taught more within schools. Because of this, the modern definition of 'family planning' has lead to some controversy amongst politicians within America.
Jess Seng Mr.Nassida AP History 15 April 2012 Liberal or Conservative Liberals and Conservatives have some really unique qualities to them. Liberals tend to lean more towards Patriot ideals such as the rejection of nobility and organized religion, as well as the right to life, liberty, and property. Conservatives, like the Tories, believed there should be minimal, gradual change in the country and they supported monarchies. FDR and Hoover might not show signs of all these things, but the main ideas of each still linger in today’s political parties. The idea that Hoover was a Conservative and FDR a Liberal are in fact completely correct.
You could easily say that after WWI, many Americans would characterize our country’s state of fear of being undermined. Americans were definitely traditionalists after WWI , who only wanted policies of conformity and intolerance. This led to very conservative policies by our government which would conflict with fresh progressive ides coming off the progressive era. The Scopes trial of 1925 proved intolerance between traditionalists and modernists. Traditionalists obviously wanted things to stay the same and still go with the bible instead of teaching evolution.
To the Sadducees, the rituals of Judaism were "more important than attempts to interpret the Torah, which they accepted in its written form just as it was, without seeing any need for additional commentaries". The Pharisees took a different point of view on this issue. Like the Sadducees, the Pharisees came into existence during the early period of the Maccabee Dynasty. The name of the Pharisees stems
Many changes took place with this reform that somewhat mimicked Christian churches. Choirs were added, and services were even shortened. The quest of the reform was to ensure that Judaism was looked on as an evolving religion that was not forever fixed around the Torah with no changes. These reformed congregations are in abundance throughout the United States. The largest movement within the United States is the Conservative Judaism.
In the later additions of his work he wrote in an appendix on how some had read his statements in regards to religion, and believed he was opposed to Christianity. Frederick Douglass is to me an example of how we can cling to Christ and speak out against the “culturally - correct” views of “Christian conservatives”. We must remember in the 1840’s conservative Christians wanted to ‘conserve’ the systems and traditions of slavery, and it was the liberal, yet biblical, Christians who wanted to open-up, or ‘liberate’ views that were contrary to the status-quo of the day. I am not talking about politics, I am talking about basic Christian lifestyle - that opposes conserving cultural systems that are contrary to the gospel.
Religious traditions impacts family as well as political beliefs. Depending on what religion you are affects what you think, if you are Jewish than tradition emphasizes social justice which is a liberal idea. But if you are Protestant than tradition emphasizes personal salvation which is “saving yourself”. Different religions come with different beliefs. The media helps shape opinions on politics.
What are the pros and cons of a conservative life style? In order to answer this question I will use as example, or as base, the life of Amish people. The Amish are a group of traditionalist Christian church fellowships, known for simple living, plain dress, and reluctance to adopt many conveniences of modern technology. First I will analyze the pros of a conservative style, in the pros side; we find that as they live on a reluctance of modern technology, they don’t have the influence of the media, that mostly changes or biases things to a certain point of view or way of living that can also be considered, distracting elements of life, because they became a hobby or an activity that began to take part of life diary routine, and prevents us of making some maybe better or more productive things; something that Amish people, do, because as they do not have distractions in life, they can be focused on what really matters like helping on the home, working, making dresses, or in anyways making productive things that help a community and give you a sense of responsibility In order to be better people. As another aspect, they are separated on communities, that even though, are in some multi-cultural and multiple ethnics countries such as U.S.A or Canada, are followed by their own rules and are small communities that live between them, with some sense of security from inside and outside, because they are a community in which there is no crime, there crime rate is 0, meanwhile in many places around the world (in what is considered the “outside world” for the Amish), and even the same country they’re living but on the outside, the crime rate is really high, and there is much more probability of being robbed, of hurt, or even killed by people out there, which gives the perception that the outside world is dangerous and the conservative way of living is much more secure.
The Rabbis would be taking all of their life experiences and including them in their interpretation of the Torah. One of the creations during this time is the Mishnah. The Mishnah is different from the Torah in that it does not go in the biblical order, instead it has legal topics. It is the collection of oral Jewish traditions mostly on legal issues. They may have been looking for new insights of meaning from the biblical texts and spiritual support for the stories that had been passed down orally.
Although religious values and morals don’t guide and rule countries anymore it is not to be said that they haven’t given countries a foundation for their laws and core values. An appropriate example of this is the United States of America many of their laws are based on the Ten Commandments of the bible, thou shall not kill thou shall be nice to your neighbor, though shall treat others the way you want to be treated and thou shall not steal. These are important examples of legislation and social conduct in American society. America is also a good example of religion still being used in core values and practices. One is the pledge of allegiance which says “under god” this shows America’s devotion to god.