Essay Questions: 1. What is a religion? You’ve read our textbook author’s definition; use that definition as a starting point to go further. The word “religion” is such a broad word that to this day there is no one definition that can satisfy all religions. For the time being‚ it is better to simply be open to many possible definitions‚ without embracing any single one. Different people especially in different religions will all have a difference in opinion when trying to use
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our thinking about time‚ gravity‚ and the conversion of matter to energy (E=mc2). Although never coming to belief in a personal God‚ he recognized the impossibility of a non-created universe. The Encyclopedia Britannica says of him: "Firmly denying atheism‚ Einstein expressed a belief in "Spinoza’s God who reveals himself in the harmony of what exists." This actually motivated his interest in science‚ as he once remarked to a young physicist: "I want to know how God created this world‚ I am not interested
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and Bishop Samuel Wilberforce). Darwin was also blamed for many catastrophes in history‚ as people continued to wrongly apply the “Survival of the Fittest” to normal life. Darwin has been blamed for the destruction of religion and the rise of atheism‚ fascism‚ communism and even the Second World War‚ as people like Karl Marx base their philosophies on The Origin of Species. • Use available evidence to analyse‚ using a named example‚ how advances in technology have changed scientific thinking
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from contingency. The main distinguishing feature between these two arguments is the way in which they evade an initial objection to the argument‚ introduced with a question: “Does God have a cause of his existence?” [Robin Le Poidevin‚ Arguing for Atheism‚ Routledge 1996‚ Chapter 1] To explain this objection‚ and how the two forms of cosmological argument evade it‚ I‘ll use a simple‚ generic statement of the cosmological argument: The Simple Cosmological Argument (1) Everything that exists has a
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Jehovah’s Witnesses was first started by Charles Taze Russel in Pittsburgh around 1870. What led Charles Russel to first start the denomination was when he tried to convert an atheist to Christianity and ended up being converted instead‚ not to atheism but to agnosticism. Important Religious Beliefs Witnesses rely on the authority of the Bible when they live their day to day life. They believe that the bible is a gift from God that tells humans about what God is like‚ how to cope with problems
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Adultery was viewed a lot differently back in the 1600’s than it is nowadays. In today’s world‚ adultery is a very commonplace thing‚ with it being broadcasted on newspapers‚ TV‚ books‚ movies‚ and even in video games. In some cases‚ it it even encouraged. This is very contradictory to how adultery was treated back in the Scarlet Letter’s timeline. Unlike today‚ adultery was a horrendous crime worthy of death. In today’s world‚ adultery is a common event in households across the United States and
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Pennycook’s statement sounds very defensive against all who practice a religion. He quotes more than a few authors who share the same belief as him. One author who stood to me the most was Hichens (2007) he states‚ “religion poisons everything” (p.60). On the same page‚ Pennycook says that his main issue is “to engage with ancient organized religions in their new incarnations‚ with claims to the existence of an almighty being still‚ after so much‚ seems a desperate regression” (p. 60).” If I understood
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learn. They thirst for knowledge. They do not execute criminals but they instead sentence them to slavery. Bribery does not occur because no one owns anything. They keep an army for defense and to help injustice. All religions are tolerated‚ though atheism is immoral. Yet despite all these so called perfect things‚ I do not view this as a good place. Every citizens liberties are taken away‚ women aren’t treated as equals‚ and they view people in a worse light if they are atheists. The country of utopia
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almost “borrowing” various ideas he has mentioned throughout his writings‚ but one in particular seems very interesting for decent solution to this argument. His second set of answers or Replies to more objections Descartes brings up the topic of atheism and how they can know that three angles of a triangle are equal to two right angles (Pynn 2011). The nonbelief in God shows that God’s existence may be irrelevant and Descartes may have an issue. Descartes claims that an atheist can be clearly aware
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The most outstanding problem in a utopia is the illusion of free will. Under most modern philosophies‚ we assume that all humans have the ability to determine their futures through their decisions. In a “utopian” society‚ every person’s decisions must be predetermined to retain order. Every human’s actions must be predictable in order to plan and prepare for all possible problems. If you assume that humans can make decisions that were created entirely in their own minds‚ then at some point‚ a person’s
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