However it can be argued that just because the attendance of church members are declining does not mean that other Religious and Spiritual movements are taken their place as statistics show that there is still a lot of people that believe in God and still use the church for events such as baptism, weddings and funerals etc. It is hard to study the movements of cults and cults because they are neither official, nor registered therefore there isn’t any evidence to prove that Cults are Sects are replacing the
And so is the hurt we cause others unknowingly” (Walker 180). For many people an absence of belief is an overwhelming thing. This could relate to religion or a sense that someone does not believe in what they say or what they do. By not having faith in a person to listen and believe what they are saying you may unknowingly hurt them in ways that you will never know and will never fully understand. “She say, Celie, tell the truth, have you ever found God in church?
Authenticity can be dependent on the individuals finding of faith and becoming true to oneself. The media takes a large role in supporting our beliefs and we do not form our own opinions but develops the opinion made by the news. Prior to my mother’s death, my own belief was within the cultural norm, following the norm was more valuable than being authentic, I thought. The argument was that a persons freedom and courage to act more valuable than the person’s devotion. For the past two years, since my mother’s death, have not been very interested in the church.
For example, on Damascus Road, Saint Paul’s religious experience transformed his moral outlook. It would appear that all religious experiences demonstrate a revelation of truth, but one could argue that this does not indicate they are true. As Freud would argue that religious experiences are a way of externalising deep, repressed personal truths. In such a view, religious experiences are unverifiable and cannot be thought to prove the existence of God, as they are merely manifestations of the human subconsciousness. A transient experience short, and cannot be sustained for a long duration of time.
This is not so in other religions. Such religions as Hinduism for instance do not believe this. For everything you do wrong you will be punished. Christianity is slowly evolving and trying to become even more appealing to society, there are still many downfalls. Todays society is steadly envolving and the views on how the Universe works today is a total different story on how people thought it worked back then.
Therefore this tells us that secularisation has developed in other societies across the world not just in Europe. However sociologist Davie suggests that in modern society, especially across Northern Europe, people ‘believe without belonging’. Davie sees religion as taking a privatised form, and although churchgoing has declined, it does not reflect the religious beliefs, as she believes we now have people believing without belonging, where people hold religious beliefs but do not attend church. Davie believes that believing without belonging is a result of change in commitment regarding religion as attendance is now a matter of choice, rather than compulsory, people are adapting religion to suit them, Davie notes that
However others may disagree with the view of Secularisation such as Martin who denies the view that there was ever a ‘golden age’ of religion and he argues that the reason for higher attendance of church in the past is due to the view that it was seen as respectable to attend church. As well Davie argues that religion has become privatised and came up with the phrase ‘believing without belonging’. Gill et al renewed almost 100 national surveys on religious beliefs from 1939 to 1996. They showed a significant decline in a person’s belief in a personal god, as well as Jesus as the son of god but also the
This is not a justified argument due to the fact that theists do not try to definitely prove the existence of God. Several different approaches are used to provide a very strong argument for the
Therefore for the people who are Atheist or any other religion that does not believe in Jesus Christ, it is not politically correct to have those choices of acronyms. They changed before Christ to “before common era” B.C.E. and they changed after Christ to “common era” C.E. They did this to make the acronyms of history less Christian centered and less Eurocentric. The ways we measure time reflects the cultures in which we have
Their whole world was controlled by religion, and their daily lives revolved around it. But today religion doesn’t seem to the same role as it has had throughout the many centuries of history. For one thing countries are no longer governed solely by religion or religious values many other factors are now put into place. Religious values and morals are also not always considered today when making government decisions. 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.