The world in which we live is a vast and diverse place that cannot be summed up in a single word, sentence, or even paragraph. It has so many cultures and places with even more unique people to fill them. Yet somehow all the beauty becomes lost in the vast emptiness that personifies our society. Our ability to help others when they need it most is unbelievable. However this is both finite and insufficient compared to our ability to annihilate each other in wars and crime. Our world tolerates one another, but only as much as we need to in order to survive. We don't get along in large groups, and the larger the groups grow the bigger the problems become. The silver lining in all of this is that even though we fight over petty issues and dilemmas our first priority is to each other, because when the world is faced with a crisis the individual sects of the world can set aside their differences and come together.
This class has shown me a lot of things, but two lessons stand out to me the most. The first is that people are very different, and those differences can be the root of massive amounts of strife. Second is that those differences are exactly what make our lives worth living. If everyone were to be the same then there would be no real reason to go out into the world and explore or to live for yourself. Every town is different than the last, and every journey is unique. The world is nearly endless with so many different ways to live and a seemingly endless list of places life can find a foothold in. From the Asmat living in the drenched rainforests and swamplands of New Guinea to the Azande living in the central Africa. People can live in and adapt to virtually any environment yet most people never travel to see any of these bas...
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...ll religions big and small and are a direct result in the fallibly of humans in general.
It’s marvelous to think that a many religions started in a singular location with a small group of followers yet branched out all over the world. To become rooted in almost every major country in the world with followers numbering in the millions or even billions with hundreds of different sub-cultures and sub-religions inside it followers. It would appear that as time passes and technology advances connecting our world together we grow into a vast web of beliefs and traditions for anyone to pick up and continue. The study of religious origin and practice is fascinating and with people being able to find practically anything about any religion or the cultures surrounding it hopefully more people will be able to understand and tolerate the societies and people around the world.
As much as we may think our lives are so much different from others, there are many ways that they can be similar. I learned this in a novel called “The Other Side of the Sky: A Memoir” by Farah Ahmedi. Although the similarities of our cultures are there, the differences are obvious from the beginning. For example, the way we dress, what religions we believe in, and the food we eat. There are many different ways that our cultures compare, including our religion, how we eat, and our languages.
... race, but as human beings, need to embrace the things that make us unique. If not we as a species, are doomed to destroy ourselves. The opposite of war is not peace, its love. This wasn’t supposed to turn into some pageant statement about world peace, its simply a statement that nobody is exactly alike. We are all different, and in a way that makes us the same. And it is the first step to understanding why others think and do what they do, even if they are strapping a leash to their children.
Would any one sleep at night, or would they constantly watch their backs? Would there be any trust, and progress, any reason to work together for a common good? It is absurd to think that all, or even a majority of relationships are based on rivalry. If rivalry prevailed, if enmity dominated, the world would transform into a paranoid dungeon of hatred and spite, a place unfit to live and prosper in, a nightmare of crimson wounds and salty tears and gnashing teeth, with the wails of the lost and trampled piercing night and day for all of eternity. Happily, this is not the case. There is rivalry insofar that there is human nature. Yet, it is also human nature to love, protect, and seek relationships beyond those of
Since the beginning of time religion has been a key factor in the establishment and maintaining of civilizations. Popular religions such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, and Christianity have played a major role in society. ??? Each religion has a different form of ??? In this paper i will be discussing the differences in how they view death and applying it to how it affects their cultural beliefs. In order to fully discuss these dissimilarities we must first look at a brief background of each major religion.
We live in a world of differences. Our world differs view with the people we encounter, the things we learn and the ways we perceive things . We are world of individuals where no person is exactly alike or no group of people is exactly alike. Society is made up of different cultures and religions. Most of us belong to some type of group, these groups give us comfort, we are always more comfortable with those who are similar to us. But when does this become detrimental? Our grouping and separation becomes detrimental when we are presented with someone with differences. The lack of integration within different cultures in today’s society is what keeps us grounded in our own ignorance. It is detrimental to the individual because it keeps us from
Religion, “part of the human experience that has to do with a god or gods, a higher power, or the ultimate values of life” (Cason & Tillman 6-7), is one of the most controversial and interesting subjects for humanity. It has been around for as long as anyone can recall and they have difference and similarities in their founders, beliefs, and history. Religion has served to give some sort of a meaning to life and everything around it. In modern society, some religions have grown and expanded significantly. These larger religions have been classified as world religions. In addition, these world religions have been split into two categories known as Eastern and Western religion.
Religion has existed since the dawn of civilization and over time has evolved into the religions we have today. Today the most prominent religions are monotheistic, having one omnipotent god, and despite having many differences they share basic tenets of respect and kindness. Religions, such as Judaism, give explanations for the unknown, provide hope, and bring about a sense of community.
Religion is an institution that can provide stability for societies through various religious concepts, and is substantial for the support of social cohesion and order. Many functionalist theories of religion, for example, claim that religion functions in such a way as to integrate societies (McCauley, 1984). There are many types of religion that people practice world-wide such as Christianity, Catholi...
Religion has a great influence on people, providing faith and direction to each individual while controlling a co...
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...
In Introducing Philosophy of Religion, Chad Meister asserts “there are several components (that) seem to be central to the world religion: a system of beliefs, the breaking in of a transcendent reality, and human attitudes of ultimate concern, meaning and purpose” (Meister 6). Throughout my life, I feel that religion is one of the core social belief systems that people use to maintain what they feel is a good way to live. Giving them a sense of purpose or fulfillment during their earthly life, most hoping whatever beliefs that have will help them after death. Even though there are many different religions or religious value systems, everyone has most likely been exposed to one or more. There is only 15% of the world’s population that do not believe in one type of religion or another (Meister, 7).
Religions have always played a vital role between humans and its society especially in terms of what is good and proper in the society. In modern world, people have become increasingly dissociated from religion and spirituality.
Religion has the power to bind one to others as well as the aptitude to alienate people with conflicting beliefs. Throughout history, cultures have created several different belief systems, each with its own ideals, to satisfy the typical human curiosity and explain the unclarified events that occur in nature. Inspecting the role of religion from the earliest civilizations to the present, its tendency to divide rather than unify groups becomes apparent.
Our world is constantly changing and it requires a society that is well versed in understanding the problems deriving from culture differences and tolerance of one another’s beliefs and perceptions. We are dealing with systemic problems in education, economic, government, religion and culture differences.
Religion, a word shrouded with mystery, confusion and complexity. For some it is the answer to everything, a path to guidance and hope. For others it is the reason for all evil or just a manmade phenomenon for people who refuse to understand that everything happens for a scientific reason. Whatever the case is, it is a topic that is quite controversial and much debated among scientists, cultural theorist and conspiracy theorists. Religion plays a major role in functioning and forming social and psychological behavior of a society. It is connected more towards the emotional side of a person and everyone has their own perspective about it. Therefore religion has become an important part of human identity.