1. What culture or religion do you identify with? Culture can make who a person is by their beliefs‚ traditions‚ religion‚ the music they listen to‚ the food they eat‚ or the language they speak. Culture is what makes who you are as a person today. My culture i identify a part of is latin. I was born in Canada but my parents are from argentina so i grew up with the spanish culture. I’m proud of my culture and express it as much as i can everywhere i go. The food is my favourite part of being part
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Part B. The ontological argument is a convincing argument. Discuss. The ontological argument was first made famous in the 11th century by St Anslem from Canterbury and was later taken further by French philosopher Rene Descartes. The debate is an attempt to confirm God’s existence as a priori argument. It does not rely on observations of the world around us it simply uses logic and the idea that it is illogical to say that God does not exist as its main factor. There are three elements to St
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Religion determined everything in Aztec culture and society. Dan Hofstadter explains that Aztec religion was polytheistic. The Mexica worshipped thousands of gods but these gods were seen more as forces or spirits‚ not as individual beings. These gods represented things like the sun‚ moon‚ or stars‚ not people. Smith states that Aztec religion was based on the belief that “the gods sacrificed themselves at the beginning of the world to create and benefit humankind… To repay that debt‚ these gods
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“Religion which does not have an impact on culture is a toothless tiger.” This quote exemplifies the idea that if religion did not impact an individual‚ it would have the same effect of a ferocious tiger not being able to exert its force. From the Latin religio (the respect for what is sacred) and religare (to bind‚ in the sense of an obligation)‚ the word religion is an organised collection of belief and practice systems‚ focusing on what people determine to be sacred or spiritual. Throughout history
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Mayan Culture vs. the Seven Dimensions of Religion Since the dawn of humanity‚ human beings have been contemplating the meaning of life‚ searching for answers to make sense of their existence. Even ancient people tried to answer the same taunting questions about their purpose on earth and the questions about the world‚ which people nowadays search for. Thus‚ in seeking the answers‚ ancient people created religions‚ usually based on their understanding of cosmology. Cosmology is a general understanding
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only by the soldiers fighting the war over their freedom. Though slavery was full of negatives‚ it also blossomed with positives as a means to cope. African-American slaves used several aspects of their native African culture to cope‚ two primary components being music and religion. Slaves worked under constant watch by their owners‚ constantly fearing punishment for a slip-up. Enslaved African-Americans obviously resented the way they were being treated‚ and devised ways to rebel against their
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Immortality Views among Different Cultures and Religions The concept of life after death has been around practically as long as life itself. Our beliefs about life after death can have a profound effect on our attitudes toward life. Most individual’s beliefs about life after death are directly related to their cultural or religious affiliations. According to Montagu‚ "Of all the many forms which natural religion has assumed none probably has exerted so deep and far reaching an influence on
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Religion is a set of beliefs that ensure the moral conduct of the societies and that regulates divine laws in a society in order to bring peace in it. Generally it has been found that societies that follow religion are more likely to survive because of compassion‚ lack of disorder or killing as the laws are enforced by the religion. However when religion is viewed in modern society then it bring about a clash among the science and religion. Each religion has its own particular faith that its
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Orthodox Christianity has had an immense effect on the culture of Russia. The adoption of the Orthodox faith from Constantinople by Prince Vladimir in 988 introduced cultural influences that profoundly affected the Russian consciousness. As the people embraced Orthodoxy it developed a uniquely Russian flavor and rooted deep in the fertile Russian soul. Orthodoxy had a major impact on politics‚ art‚ and nearly every other aspect of Russia’s culture. Orthodoxy helped forge Russia’s world view and defined
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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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