Religion And Decision Making Essay

Since from ancient times, a lot of influence and beliefs concerning about the ability of people in decision-making have been studied and analyze by professionals. This factor sets new dimensions and ideas of reason around the world and in all the fields of human social ability and capability; especially in the field of politics wherein this influence and beliefs can be overwhelming to a point that everyone will be agreeing to reasons and beliefs while making crucial decision that will affect millions of lives living in the state. In the Philippines this influence and beliefs are very observable by small groups that comprise the large group that is the whole country. This paper tries to understand why norms are important in society and explain

Since Spanish occupation up to the present the norm of the religion highly influence in Philippine politics. Religious norms set-up the minds of the people in thinking what is good to the society without even identifying the facts that is important in decision-making in politics. Almost every Filipino believes or practice religion and the numbers are: eighty one percent are roman-catholic, almost three percent are Iglesia Ni Cristo members, and other religious group like Muslims, Protestants, Aglipayan consist of the norms of the religion that can be seen in the Philippine political setup (Pangalangan, 2011). In line with this, the norm of block voting that have been practiced by these religious groups are very influential in the Philippine political setup (Pangalangan, 2011). Party list always do their best effort in making religious leaders to vote for them in the elections and people who are members of the sector will follow everything with what the leaders said (Pangalangan, 2011). This can change a lot of ideas and norms in the terms, which the representative will be handling, and thus creating new dimensions in Philippine political system (Pangalangan,

In the concept of team sports there is a norm that every player follows and it is the norm of “brotherhood”. Brotherhood is the idea of blood relationship without being a real brother (Agni Yoga Society, 1982). This norm makes players of every team a family, wherein if one succeeds every other member will succeed as well and it is also a norm that everyone will do his or her jobs without any questions and this will be great in political set-up that the citizen has. In relation to this the Filipino citizen that makes up the political system, instilling the norm of BROTHERHOOD will be a fitting norm with the norm of professionalism. The concept of the norm of brotherhood is that every citizen will be accounted for the actions he or she will be doing (Agni Yoga Society, 1982). Just like the norm of professionalism, this norm will make every citizen of the Philippines responsible and accorded to his decisions and actions that will affect their