Just like a religious believer who states “god loves us” but can’t explain the contradiction of evil in the world, believers qualify their statements by explaining god’s love is not like humans love he calls this “death by a thousand qualifications”. Therefore religious language is meaningless. However religion has responded to the falsification principle. R.B Braithwaite argued that the falsification principle explains religious language as cognitive when it if in fact non cognitive and therefore cannot be falsified, religious language is therefore still meaningful. Hare also responds to the falsification principle, showing that religious statements are meaningful even though they cannot be falsified because they have a significant impact for the people using the statement.
They say it is conservative and when a community is cooperating such as practising worship together in church it creates a social harmony among everybody. Religion often promotes love and peace, these are positive attributes that would create a good society when practised. It works by religion helping people choose the right moral decisions. An example derived from Christianity would be when followers look into the accounts from the holy Bible where they can read passages from Jesus’ teachings and access guidance “ What would Jesus do?” Jesus did good things, so the people that follow him will create a social harmony. Religions such as Christianity offer social norms and rules with the “10 commandments” such rules as “do not steal” have become universal.
Phenomenology is also geared towards creating a framework for understanding religious traditions. The authors of The Sacred Quest An Invitation to the Study of Religion give multiple outlines for different things in religion, such as what a cult is defined as and what it means for something to be sacred. The phenomenological approach’s function is to also put up a firewall against literalism. This means that we want to look at how things function in a religion and how things are interpreted but we do not want to make the mistake of believing some things actually happened in the physical world. We use the phenomenological approach as a way to interpret data that we observe from several different religions.
Our diversity of religion results in people of different faiths or no faith living in one country peacefully. This is somewhat unsusual in the world and makes us a stronger country. The rest of the world looks to us with amazement that such diverse faiths can practice their religion in harmony. With this freedom we can have the luxury of great religious leaders inspiring their people and helping our country be stronger. During the American Revolution, our founding fathers were of different religions like Quakers, Methodists, Baptists and other religions.
How far do the sources suggest that genuine concern for the state of religion lay behind Cromwell’s visitations? To begin with, Source 1 suggests that the concern for the state of religion was a significant reason for the visitations. This letter written by Richard Layton, a Royal Commissioner, claims that ‘the King intends reformation and correction of religion’. This clearly suggests that the visitations occurred in order to improve and cleanse the religious system. This is then reinforced by Source 2, written by Edward Lee, the Archbishop of York, which says that ‘all ecclesiastical persons should preach the sincere Word of God’.
Christians have many different views on the issue of inventions and how their use can be controlled. The Christian deontological teachings of the 10 commandments provide many rules that some Christians may use to apply to the issues of inventions. A more relative approach is Situation ethics which would weigh up the effects an invention would have on mankind. Natural Law largely followed by the Catholic Church maintains the fact that all life is sacred and so inventions such as genetic engineering and stem cell research would raise concerns. Neil Postman (1931-2003) was an American author that described technophiles as the people who rejoice in human inventiveness for its own sake, for the sheer excitement of what it might bring.
“No argument can be effective unless it speaks well to others,”(Lunsford 27). Jacob is a Student at Goshen College and he spoke well in his speech. He gave concrete examples, personal testimony, social and biblical references. I believe this speech was definitely effective according to our book. I can’t speak for anyone in the audience but I can say that the speech had effects on my views because in all reality if two gay people do get married it doesn’t change a thing for most people.
They should be of a reasonable length and contain directions that are easy to understand and ready to replicate. It is also important that they result in acceptance and
Is it effective? Why or why not? I think the way it was structured was correct because it explains how people have rights and how they can be protected. It was effective. It was very understandable and it also had logical points after another.
In “who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf”, Nick is linked to religion explicitly with his sayings but as well implicitly. As all good American citizens of the 50’s-60, everything he decides, does, must respect the catholic traditions. For example, when he believes Honey to be pregnant, he immediately decides to marry her; otherwise he wouldn’t have been respected in some community. As a result, his motivations for a greater social status would have been compromised. Albee used this example to show the over importance of religion in every American family.