Currently, there are thousands of religions in the world. These religions can be identified as two groups: universal and ethnic. Universal religions can be defined as two words: proselytizing, and accepting. Ethnic religions are religions that are clique. However, universal religions are more beneficial for the health of the world; they influence others on their culture and history, they are generally more accepting and welcoming of diverse affiliations of people, and they also encourage egalitarianism of people throughout the world.
Universal religions are truly beneficial for the world’s health. One reason this is true is due to their ability to spread their history and culture. An educational cultural website, education.com, states that the influence of cultural beliefs about education, the value of education, and participation styles cannot be overestimated (Impact). Religion is a major aspect of any country’s history. Most of the general population of a town is consistent with participating in one religion. That single religion influences the town’s activities and the citizen’s lives. This infers that the citizens in these towns unite communally, and when people inside a community are close with one another, then that town becomes a vigorous one. How could a town be healthy if everybody kept to their selves and nobody knew anyone? Religion brings community together. Furthermore, according to the website huffingtonpost.com, an American online news aggregator, “Culture is intangible, but it is essential: you can walk into a school and know immediately whether you want to be there or not” (Huffington Post). The cultures of universal religions are taught abroad, throughout schools. Although these schools never favor any one s...
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The Holocaust is a topic that is still not forgotten and is used by many people, as a motivation, to try not to repeat history. Many lessons can be taught from learning about the Holocaust, but to Eve Bunting and Fred Gross there is one lesson that could have changed the result of this horrible event. The Terrible Things, by Eve Bunting, and The Child of the Holocaust, by Fred Gross, both portray the same moral meaning in their presentations but use different evidence and word choice to create an overall
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Religion reinforces the beliefs of individuals within a society. Additionally, religion has played a vital role in society since it influenced the way they lived and the rituals they may or may not have practiced. Different regions of the world during ancient times held a distinct set of beliefs, each based on different or similar principals. Deriving from the polytheistic set of beliefs, monotheism came in place of many Gods, holding just one god accountable for the creation and the existence of mankind. Christianity and Buddhism share similarities and differences, but most importantly the impact that each has on the culture is what is mostly referred to.
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The Holocaust was a very impressionable period of time. It not only got media attention during that time, but movies, books, websites, and other forms of media still remember the Holocaust. In Richard Brietman’s article, “Lasting Effects of the Holocaust,” he reviews two books and one movie that were created to reflect the Holocaust (BREITMAN 11). He notes that the two books are very realistic and give historical facts and references to display the evils that were happening in concentration camps during the Holocaust. This shows that the atrocities that were committed during the Holocaust have not been forgotten. Through historical writings and records, the harshness and evil that created the Holocaust will live through centuries, so that it may not be repeated again (BREITMAN 14).
When individuals think about the Holocaust, most place the responsibility of the terrible events on the perpetrators. However, bystanders played one of the largest roles in the Holocaust (Evans, Carrell) simply by staying safe for way too long (Florida Center) and the world wants to make sure it never happens again (Shriver Jr., Donald W).
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Religion is considered as a pervasive force in this world. It shapes people as to how they behave and interact with almost everything present in the society. Influencing behavior, character formations, ideals, policies, standards are just among the dimensions and societal perspectives affected and impacted by religion. Because of these applications and implications in human lives and existence, religion should be understood deeply, particularly, on how it affects the world. Looking at the American perspective of the term "religion," it could be simply
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Religion is an ever-growing idea that has no set date of origin. Throughout history religion has served as an answer to the questions that man could not resolve. The word religion is derived from the Latin word “religio” meaning restraint in collaboration with the Greek word “relegere” which means to repeat or to read again. Religion is currently defined as an organized system of beliefs and practices revolving around, or leading to, a transcendent spiritual experience. Throughout time, there has yet to be a culture that lacks a religion of some form, whether it is a branch of paganism, a mythological based religion or mono/polytheistic religion. Many religions have been forgotten due to the fact that they were ethnic religions and globalizing religions were fighting to be recognized, annihilating these ancient and ethnic religions. Some of these faiths include: Finnish Paganism, Atenism, Minoan Religion, Mithraism, Manichaeism, Vedism, Zoroastrianism, Asatru, and the Olmec Religion. Religion is an imperative part of our contemporary world but mod...
Religion is a system of faith and worship to a personal God or gods and can be found in almost every society throughout history. Thus, it is going to be an inevitable factor in the future as it will always be a part of all cultures in the world. Many of the world’s major wars have been directly or indirectly influenced by religion. Therefore, it is imperative that the world’s future leaders, which are now students in classes, receive an education on all religions. These include the three most dominant being Christianity,
America is a melting pot of culture and race. Thus, bringing many different types of religious faiths to today’s society. Whether the beliefs are ancient, new, reconstructed or if people have no faith at all, it is all in America. It is difficult to scrutinize one religion without it concerning another. All religions have diverse beliefs ranging from; the belief of...