Essays on Religious Conflict

Religion in our modern American society today is filled with conflict from many different avenues. These avenues range from who is fit to be a religious leader, to who is fit to worship God. Society has also defiantly paralyzed certain individuals in almost every culture through its deviance, when it comes to religion. Every religion has its share of problems and have been held accountable for certain situations here in our America, but “Jews, Christians and Muslims are blamed for social, ...

Today, most people have religious beliefs. Trust is a state of mind when we consider something true even if we are not 100% sure or can prove it. Everyone has a belief in life and the world they experience. The mutual support creates a system of trust, which may be religious, philosophical or ideological. Belief in the spiritual dimension of life has been from ancient times. Many human societies have left us historical evidence of their belief systems, whether they worship the sun, gods and ...

Before the Spanish entry to America for the reason of colonizing them, the people of America had their own religion and beliefs. Because the Spanish had already put pressure on Americans, Sepulveda finds that to introduce Christianity, which was a new religion to American, will need to force them to believe in Christianity. He thought that the Europeans civilization was superior to the native civilization. Europeans having the power to colonize the native civilization and making them their ...

Religion and International mindedness “I truly believe the only way we can create global peace is through not only educating our minds but our hearts and souls”-Malala Yousefazai “Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.”Adolf Hitler The term “universal education” that Hitler feared, I imagine is the concept of international education that has made a mark for itself post World War II. He fretted on the ...

Ashoka’s policies were affected heavily by his religion after the Battle of Kalinga where he lost around two hundred fifty thousand men (soldiers and civilians) and he felt like it was his fault. Although he was heavily influenced by Buddism that does not mean Buddha would agree with everything he did. I personally think Buddha would have not agreed with his philosophy that for people to accept Buddism to create a unified people. Buddha was all about moral integrity and he probably would not ...

The film The Nativity Story was released on December 1, 2006. It was directed by Catherine Hardwick, and it was produced by Wyck Godfrey and Toby Emmerich. The main characters in this movie were Mary, who was played by Keisha Castle-Hughes. Joseph was played by Oscar Isaac, and Elizabeth who was played by Shohreh Aghdashloo. Also, Zachariah who was played by Stanley Townsend. Herod who was played by Ciaran Hinds, and the Angel Gabriel who is played by Alexander Siddig. The Nativity Story is a ...

Bangladesh is a peaceful moderate Muslim country. It is the third largest Muslim country according to the number of its follower. All of the people of all community live here peacefully with sharing their biggest religious festival among each other without any conflict. International community appreciates such sorts of relation and they gave example of such co existence of all community in Bangladesh to other nation regarding their concern about the rights of minorities there. But suddenly ...

In the present world, religion is playing a substantial role, in the way it can give structure and guide society to the way it can cause havoc and wreck it. From terrorists using religion to justify their wrongdoings to Jehovah's Witnesses refusing blood transfusions for their children unable to choose their religion. It all really calls into question whether religion is a causing a positive impact on today's society or in fact promoting hate and intolerance. Religion seems to have formed ...

This paper will examine the problem of evil as presented by Mackie and Rowe; both versions aiming to present an inconsistency within basic principles accepted by the theologian, from which atheistic conclusions are drawn. By comparing and contrasting the plausibility of the two versions, it can be shown that Mackie’s version of the argument is ultimately stronger, and can stand up to a rebuttal given on the basis of the nature of good and evil. Mackie prefaces his account of the problem of ...

Charter for Freedom of Religion or Belief was officially created 2014, through the contribution of 30 international agencies, and spearheaded by the US Commission on International Religious Freedom. The basis of this decision was the perceived need to reinforce Article 18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In the arena of political science, this ‘need’ was viewed by intellectuals to be in parallel with preventing the actions of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), which is ...

God gives no reason to live a pious life if free will is nonexistent and the fate of salvation has been predetermined. If even the lives of the “most pious men are sinful,” God gives no merit to the actions of those being judged, making the judgment behind salvation pointless (Erasmus, p. 684). All of the “warnings, precepts, threats, exhortations, and innumerable demands” put forth by Him also have no purpose behind them (Erasmus, p. 685). God would have no reason to demand one to struggle ...

The Crusades were a series of war where the Christians fought the Seljuk Turks during 1095, as the Turks came and took control of Jerusalem. They then persecuted the Christian pilgrims who tried to visit Jerusalem; the beloved "Holy Land" to them. The Byzantine ruler asked Pope Urban II to act for the creation of a volunteer army made of 30,000 men, and people agreed warmly, and now this is called the Crusades. Some of the many reasons that the Crusades happened include; First, the Pope wanted ...

The ‘idea of God’ is a quite peril discourse to explore in this ‘egoistic’ realm with diverse beliefs systems and structures which may not be necessarily centered on faith and spirituality but cradle the obsession of the ‘idea of believing’. It is debatable that the thought itself raises suspicions and appear to construct over a frail foundation of discourses but the uncertainty referred here is the beauty of the concept, proving beauty in complexity, harmony in chaos, truth amongst lies and ...

I believe and see religion as a spiritual way to connect with the works of God and how all of us try to do good, finding peace from within and giving us the right path through guidance. There are lots of religions with different unique teachings for everyday life and since we are surrounded with people from different parts of the world, we do get to learn things from their background, culture which is an interesting way to gain further knowledge. Religion can be considered as a subjective ...

The Holy Prophet (PBUH) said: ''Beware of extremism in religion,f or extremism destroyed those who went before you''. Religiously inspired psychological warfare is viewed as the most disturbing fear based oppressor danger today. Gatherings that legitimize their brutality on Islamic grounds – Al Qaeda, Hamas, and Hezbollah – strike a chord first. In any case, Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism and different religions have likewise offered ascend to their own types of activist fanaticism. A ...