Exploratory Essay
When I was getting older, I’ve always had my doubt about religion. I have a question that how people have and choose their religion. Even though Korea have provided a background for Confucianism for many thousands of years, most of people believe in the Christian religion and very popular with it. There are also lots of pseudo-religions that are trying to cheat other people in order to get money. So while living for about 20 years in Korea, most of people who are on the wrong way forced me to believe in God, or you will go to hell that makes me unpleasant and distrusting about them and God. Nevertheless, there are many devout Christians in Murray who never force me to believe in God so I’m still interested in religion, especially Christianity. I realized that I have a serious prejudice against them. To put it extremely, I thought the person who has a faith in God is weird although most of Christians are devout and nice more than anybody else. My goal in the paper is to reestablish the definition of “religion" to judge whether it is essential or not and resolve my curiosity in my heart. Before you read this paper, I want you to know that this paper is in the side of Christianity although my general topic is “religion.”
To achieve this goal, I have organized my paper into four main sections. One of them is about God’s existence, two of them is the points of view about God and religion. And I described atheists’ perspective and theists.’ And the lasting thing I wrote is about the negative effect of religion on our society.
DOES GOD EXIST?
Do you believe that God exists? This is one of the most important questions that people can consider and this question remained in my mind for years to come. There are little people who think out the answer because the evidence is uncertain. So belief in God and His existence has effect on your entire life whether the influence is positive or negative. In atheist’s point of view, they think people cannot prove or disprove the
Cited: Craig, William Lane. "Does God Exist?" reasonablefaith.org. 1986. Reading.
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