An extraterrestrial assessment of Earth's religious characteristics

Religious Life of Planet Earth

The objective of this study is to assume that the writer is from another planet and has been sent to Earth to determine if it is a religious planet or not. The superiors are expecting a report from this writer who will discuss the criteria employed to determine if people on earth are religious. This work will additionally describe three behaviors or beliefs that are observed to meet the criteria established and based on the writer's observations to explain the function of religion on earth and determine how the observations made could otherwise be interpreted.

Criteria

The criteria that would be used in determining whether Earth is a religious planet or not would include a belief on the part of humans that there is a greater and higher power that is more intelligent and otherwise superior to human beings that has a great deal of control over the events that occur on Earth. The second criteria used to determine whether Earth is a religious planet would be the construction of monuments or temples to glorify the entity that is worshiped by human beings. The third criteria for determining whether Earth is a religious planet would be belief in the afterlife following death of the physical body.

Criteria One

The first criteria, or that of a belief on the part of human beings that there is a greater and higher power that is more intelligent and in control of the events that occur on earth would be satisfied as it is certain that human beings of all races, ages, ethnicities, and geographical locations believe that a higher and greater power exists and that this greater and higher power has control of events on earth is fully met in this study.

Criteria Two

As well, the second criteria that would be used to determine whether Earth is a religious planet is fulfilled as there are many temples, churches, tabernacles, chapels, monasteries, convents, and other religious institutions that have been constructed and otherwise established to glorify the higher and greater power that is worshipped by human beings. The greater and higher power is know in some religions as God or Jehovah, and in other religions as Buddha, Brahma, or Allah.

Summary and Conclusion

In conclusion, having examined life on the planet Earth and the criteria set out to determine whether the Earth is a religious planet, it can only be concluded that the planet Earth is indeed a religious planet and that human beings are religious, do hold religious beliefs about a greater and higher power and that human beings have a strong belief in the afterlife upon death of the physical bodies of human beings. The afterlife is known in some religions as heaven and in others as paradise. All religious beliefs of the afterlife are centered upon the receipt of rewards or alternatively the receipt of punishment. Planet Earth is a religious planet, which has a system of beliefs strongly based in an ongoing battle between 'good' and 'evil'.