Religion as an Important Source of Moral Values in Contemporary Societies

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Religion as an Important Source of Moral Values in Contemporary Societies Over the past century there has been a great differ in the views of the people of how people see religion and how important and how influential it is to our modern contemporary societies today. Too a large extent in our infrastructure today religion does play a vital part in how society runs. Religion especially helps integration between people. Before the industrial revolution quite a vast population would integrate with each other through church services and would socialise through that agency. Even in contemporary societies such activities take place for example in the Gurdwara there are youth clubs and clubs for the elderly whereby people can get to know each other. Religion also teaches us how to behave and acts as a unconscious policing action. Using Sikhism again as an example religion teaches us that they should cover their head before praying to whom they worship and not eating meat. However this has slightly changed from past times as people do eat meat however the vast majority are vegetarian. Funeral ceremonies also involve religion when it comes to the mourning. This helps the family of the loved one who has passed away as the ceremony allows the family to regain strength and acceptance and a reason to carry on with their own lives. Another key time when religion seems to have an impact is when it hits war time. People and soldiers pray to retrieve metaphoric strength and confidence. It also provides answers that don’t get answered and also brings about questions that were never there before. It justifies reasons to kill. Such recent inc... ... middle of paper ... ...Feminists also argued their point. Feminists found that they were treated with less respect because of religion. They argue that religion promotes patriarchy within society. They feel they are oppressed by the male figure within society. Fundamentalists in Iraq Al- Quaeda made women cover them selves up and to stay within the household and turn back to traditional views or otherwise were killed. Overall as in the introduction mentioned there is a vast opinion on how important religion is in modern society today. It can be said that yes religion is of very high importance as it is one of the main agencies in contemporary society that form the base of our infrastructure, but it can also be said that religion is no longer important as it used to be as science has proofed to answer just as many questions as religion has.

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