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.
Throughout history, mankind has waged war against each other various reasons. These reasons are often times proven to be trivial and superfluous thus making wars preventable. The American civil war was a war that was inevitable because of key events leading up to the war divided the country to the point where it made war unpreventable. The first issue that made the civil war unavoidable was the Declaration of Independence (cite). The writer of the Declaration was Thomas Jefferson who wrote it based off the ideals of the enlightenment period.
Outline the ways in which religious beliefs can be used to clarify dilemmas in sexual ethics. Many issues arise with sexual ethics when religious beliefs- particularly roman catholic- are considered. The largest and most noticeable dilemma is perhaps the contrast of modern, social beliefs and the teachings of religion, one disagreement present is the acceptance of homosexuality. Current law is being questioned over the legality of homosexual marriage whilst the Catholic bible and church strongly state otherwise. However, dilemmas in sexual ethics are not only approached through religion, for instance, in ancient Greece both Pythagoras and Stoics believed that the soul was imprisoned in the body and can only be released through the disregarding of the base pleasure, sex.
We do know that religious beliefs causes war, but I do not think that relgious beliefs justify war. Some beliefs believe that war is a sin, that you shouldn't do it. Some religions believe that war isn't a sin and you will be pinished if you do not go fight for your god. Document 1 (Bhagavad-Gita, the Hindu song of God) , document 4 (Haji according to the Quran 4:74-74) , and document 5 ( Pope Innocent 3 in Fourth Lateran Council, 1215) are grouped together because they believe that you will be punished if you do not participate in war for your god. In documnet 1, they were disgraced they didn't fight.
For these political aggressors, war is not merely a metaphor or the equivalent of a sports analogy. It is far more profound and stems from the conflict of “world view,” usually described as a “Biblical World view” against everything else. It is explicitly understood by its proponents as a religious war and waged accordingly on multiple fronts, mostly in terms we have come to define as “cultural.” How the conflict plays out takes on political dimensions and sometimes physical conflict. This war is theocratic in nature, and seeks
The Middle East is a region rich in culture and tradition. It is true that there are the extremist that do things in the name of Allah – i.e. terrorists – but every culture and religion has its extremists. The Orient should not be judged based on what the minority does but, yes on what the majority does. In the end, Riverbend’s blog is somewhat of an eye opener to those who were not fully aware not only of the actual situation in Iraq in terms of the war but, also about how the Iraqi people live.
With the religion/war hypothesis, we don't have to actually make a clinical study--it's already been done for us. In the 20th century, we saw the most disastrous wars of history, both in Europe and in the Far East. Tell me, which of these were centered around religious disputes? As scientists, we are forced to develop an alternative hypothesis: There is another common factor to war, much more common than religion--and that is that they are fought by human beings. I can't speak on behalf of other religions, but I can tell you that many of the great prophets of Judaism spoke of the value of peace even in a time when war was the accepted state of affairs.
English 1302 WS7 05 April 2010 Individuality and the Law Today there are many laws that are written for the people of the United States. Within these laws are issues that some may find morally unjust, and not want to follow. In Sophocles’ play Antigone, written in 441 B.C.E., these same issues existed. Antigone felt that even though she was breaking the law to bury her brother she had a religious right to uphold. To her, the religious laws were more important than the governmental laws she was being asked to follow.
However, religion is only one component of this dangerous situation. The conflict goes far beyond just a clash of religions to become one of global consequence. While many people are led to believe this is a religious war, and while religion certainly plays a significant role in hostilities, history has shown that global politics, land disputes, and regional wars are equally to blame for the continuing crisis. It is important to note that the term “Arab-Israeli conflict” is really a generic label which is put on the situation to encompass all struggles related to the Middle East. It is important for one to understand some of the history behind this struggle in order to put many of the events into perspective.
yasmin ALi Instructor: Croon English 101 10: am July, 30 2008 Invasion of Iraq The debate over the Iraq war is getting more complicated as some Americans’ believe invasion of Iraq was the righting to do money opponent believe that the us attack on Iraq was wrong from the beginning, because claims of Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction and saddam- alqaeda link were all based on faulty. Even thou war is necessary sometimes to establish order and the cases of taken action has to be careful evaluated to avoid mistakes like the Iraqi war. For a centuries money westerns have cherished the tradition of victory. The blood shading, destruction of country, high cost of the war, the lost of innocent life’s and pollution of the environment are not worth especially when is based on false pretense.