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¶ … ideals of Religious faith looking at such questions as "What are the grounds of religious faith? What does a faith do for a life?. Examples used are historical data such as Germanic faith, Vedic cultures and faith from Christianity, Judaism and Islam. Bibliography cites four references
Faith; Blind love or stupidity
What are the grounds of religious faith?" This question is as ambiguous, and as difficult to answer as the question "Does a God exist?" There are many ways of understanding the need and grounds for a religious faith, such as psychological, sociological and cultural. It also needs to be recognized many devout followers believe that their God is supreme, for instance followers of the Muslim faith.
However, to answer the question, where are the grounds for faith in religion, we need to look at the evidence and the reason of the existence of faith. The moist common answer may be simplified into a single example; miracles created by the leader of a religion. Where apparent miracles occur faith will rise. Yet this brings us to the second question; what does this faith do for us in life? Faith brings us closer to something dear to us; something has a special place in our hearts and can protect...
It is also an escape and an excuse for anything that goes right or wrong in out lives, this is the faith of Religion for as the bible states with Job's faith in God, "The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; may the name of the Lord be praised" (Job I, 21, New International Version). Therefore, it is both a comfort as well as an ability to externalize events that occur in an individuals life, without taking personal blame.
Religion is a subject that many either have a zest for or hate. Whatever way it is perceived religion is in our lives. However, anyone can be religious and follow a set religion of our parents or a belief pattern learned in school. The most important issue though is whether we have faith in that religion, its god or gods and most importantly whether that faith is unyielding, otherwise it is not true faith.
For example, if called upon would the individual die for the faith, become a martyr, for a god who is never seen and the only contact you have with him is through either a neighborhood priest, a holy book that lists do's and don'ts on how to live your life and stories of miracles. There are many such people in the world today who are willing and many who have died…
religious faith. Part of this faith is the belief that homosexuality is against God and God's teachings. The researcher is part of a research team working together on a grant-funded project focusing on adjustment of children raised in families with same-sex parents. The researcher has been tasked with completing a major part of the literature review related to the topic. What advice would you give the researcher for remaining
religious faith seems to most of us living in the United States at the beginning of the 21st century to be a purely private one. We (most of us believe) that a person's choice of religion, of congregation, of philosophy is something that each individual must decide for himself or herself. If a person finds most intellectual and emotional comfort in being a Muslim or a Jew or an
Benjamin Franklin's religious faith in "Autobiography" Benjamin Franklin's narrative accounts in his "Autobiography" provide details surrounding his life as a young man, printer, philosopher, scientist, and eventual framer of the U.S. Constitution. In his memoir, Franklin provides his readers insightful thoughts about the principles in life he subsisted to, which made him successful and a contented individual throughout his life. Moreover, he had also included in his reflections thirteen (13) virtues,
In time, Bringham Young became the Mormon leader and led the Mormons further west ultimately to the Salt Lake Valley. What are the Tenets of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints? According to the Mormon website, there are six key points that believers must adhere to in the Mormon Church: a) "God Is Our Father" (God is the "Father of our spirits," humans are "created in His image"
Freud makes it clear in one of his letters that he is atheist, though he denies attacking Christianity directly, but as a default to attacking Judaism, which was his faith of birth. It can be called an attack on religion only in so far as any scientific investigation of religious belief presupposes disbelief. Neither in my private life nor in my writings have I ever made a secret of my
Religious Field Research -- Interview with a Mormon There are many myths and misunderstandings about the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints -- also known as Mormonism -- that are based in many cases on a lack of knowledge. The misunderstandings are also the result of the fact that the Mormon faith is -- to the traditional Protestant, or Catholic, or Muslim or Buddhist or Jew -- somewhat mysterious.