Now what am I to believe? That God failed to put this thought into my mind. Furthermore, Descartes' idea of this perfect being was not as natural as he thought? It is the fact that not everyone have this idea. In fact, many people have told me that mankind cannot imagine God.
To start off with, before anyone can pick a side they need background information. Unfortunately, with many of the debates today, in previous years people are uneducated about the topic in which they are arguing. Most people that strongly disagree with the theory of evolution are very closed minded and are not willing to accept or listen to any ideas that do not support their own. All of these people chooses to believe and accept their religion and god. Many of these people think that evolution disproves their religion and throws away their god and this is not true.
Parents and teachers can also be wrong (Earth being centre of universe/Whites being more supreme than blacks). People accept rather than question. When people accept their parents religion it was randomly selected so no one can be sure if it’s the right one. * Believing in a supreme being gives life a purpose or meaning Among religious people, this belief is popular. Life seems so hard or upsetting or boring that there must more to it like destiny.
Secondly, a postmodern world has no objective truth or knowledge because it argues that the world is so unstable because every individual attaches different meanings to different things and so society fails to exist and so progress cannot be made. Because many religions claim objective truth a postmodernist would argue that it is wrong as there is no objective truth. Therefore they would suggest that
Using these different types of language demonstrates a difficulty; assuming that when we speak of God, we are speaking cognitively- assuming that our statement is something that is either true or false and that it is able to describe an extinct being, God. Philosophers have always had a debate between this. Some say that a statement of God is non-cognitive, statements not subject to true of falsity. This led to a strong trial and tribulation to religious faith and its believers. Some such as Mortiz Schlick claim that religious belief is literally meaningless; religious statements are nonsense and should not be the basis of philosophical discussion.
• Jung’s idea of religious experience – Martin Buber argues that an experience which takes place in the mind, rather than externally to the individual, is not a religious experience. Jung has also been criticised for suggesting that any vision is religious. Perhaps he has failed to understand the uniqueness of a religious experience and the effect that they have on religious believers. • Individuation – Is this a religious process? If it is concerned with the Self, is it really about God?
She is taught that singing folk music on the Lord’s day is improper, and even though she “doesn’t sing benna on Sundays at all and never in Sunday school” (120), she is explicitly told a few times not to do it. There, it is important for her to be on her best behavior. On Sundays she is shown she must “try to walk like a lady and not the slut you are so bent on becoming” (120) because how she is perceived on Sundays can be detrimental to her public image. In “Good People” Lane A. Dean Jr and his girlfriend Sheri’s values weigh heavily on their thoughts as they consider their options when making a momentous decision.
Catholic beliefs had always been criticised by the people who didn’t see them as a way to represent Christianity. Surly Luther wasn’t the first person who stood against the pope, so we have to find out why Luther became so successful and got the huge support from the people. Religion played big role in the people who were living the 16th century lives, the majority people were poor, had nothing bright in future and there was great chance if they die at young age. The only hope was the after life, another world which you enter after your death and would have much better life .As we know nothing comes free, you had to be a good person to enter the heaven after your death ,Being good person meant following your church and doing what your god have said to you. This was the point where the church start to took advantage of people, people would do anything they could to make sure they are going to heaven.
This is exactly what the little girls mother is afraid of, this is why she will not let her go to the march. It also seems weird that her mother is so sure that going to church, instead of going to the march, will be the best thing for her. Typically, a church is a very safe and sacred place. No one could have guessed that a bombing or any other type of violence would happen there. The irony is that going to church turns out to be the worst place for the mothers child to be.
She is quick to say, "The God that I serve looks at a person's heart deep down and not his appearance". Is this the case? Let's not forget quickly that our appearance can cause a fellow man to sin, and that is sinful on our part. This is surely the handiwork of the devil. nful Also, I think this trend is on the speedy rise because not much attention is given to it in the church today for fear of indirectly driving away and losing our already handful members.