how do we need religion
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- Religion is necessary for our society because it is beneficial to a lot of people. Even for those who don't believe in it, they can't deny the fact that many religious teach people values as well as help out needy people in the community. It also provides comfort for many people in times of need.es there should be. Yes we should have religion,even though some religions have been involved in murders and genocide. People should have the choice to worship a God of their choosing. It is a free world and we can do whatever we can and believe in whatever we want to believe in.
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- 1 Prayer is especially important in times of need. 2  Many people have a misconception that prayer is a vehicle for wish fulfillment. 3  Actually, prayer is not asking God to solve all your problems for you; it is asking him to help you deal with your problems. The belief you have formed through faith, and in a Higher Power than you, does not just happen. 2  You do not wake up one morning, brush your teeth, and say, today I am going to believe in God. 3  Today I am going to have faith. 4  Something has to happen for you to need and to seek out that faith.
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Religion and the Brain Dimitrios Kapogiannis and Jordan Grafman, scientists at the National Institutes of Health, follow up on a recent scientific paper by stating that brain networks that evolved for other purposes have given rise to our capacity for religious belief and experience.he crucial brain areas for this function are in the part of the frontal portion of the brain that also is involved in observing purposeful human action and detecting underlying intentions. These brain areas work with other regions to decode the emotional impact of the actions we observe.
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- The “evolution of religion” is an important topic of scientific study. If we are to assume that the apes and other pre-human lifeforms have not developed religion, we need to understand what human characteristics led to the emergence of a belief in the supernatural and its evolution.
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- As a belief system, religion shapes what people think and how they see the world. As a social institution, religion is a pattern of social action organized around the beliefs and practices that people develop to answer questions about the meaning of existence.
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- 2. RELIGION may be defined as beliefs and patterns of behavior by which people try to deal with what they view as important problems that can’t be solved by other means: e.g. the need to confront and explain life and death. All cultures have religions, which are powerful and dynamic forces in human society.
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Introduction, one possible cause Why religions sometimes promote hatred, animosity & intolerance Introduction, one possible cause. Sponsored link. Religion as a force for good and evil: As we once stated on this web site's home page: Religion is a unique force in society. It promotes both good and evil. Historically, it has helped to abolish slavery. It has promoted racial integration, equal rights for women, and equal rights for gays and lesbians.
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What role does religion play in today's society? 1 The role of religion in today's society should be to help heal the individual. 2  When individuals are healed, families are healed, and when families are healed, society is healed. 3  Most of the problems of today's society can be healed through following our religious moral codes, like the Ten Commandments. The role that religion sometimes plays in society is evidence by all the animosity, bigotry and intolerance in the world today and also on this R&S forum.
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- ‘Macho’ Camacho dies in Puerto Rico. Hector ”Macho” Camacho was a brash fighter with a mean jab and an aggressive style, launching himself furiously against some of the biggest names in boxing. And his bad-boy persona was not entirely an act, with a history of legal scrapes that began in his teens and continued throughout his life.
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How To Start Your Own Religion 1. Create your own scripture. Every religion needs its holy book, It’s easy to create one. You already have one, actually, but just haven’t organized it or acknowledged it. Make a list of all the quotes, passages, entire books, songs, poems, whatever, that have the weight of ultimate truth for you.
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SENSE AND SENSIBILITY I think the answer to this is BOTH, but it depends what you mean by a 'religion' and what you mean by 'philosophy of life'. I will therefore give my 'opinion' based partly upon the question and partly upon my knowledge of Buddhism.eople turn to religion very largely because they want to improve their life, their self or their moral conduct or to take greater comfort in life. This is why religion is termed the 'opium of the masses' --it is a 'bolster' which protects us from the bad times.
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Is religion good for the world? Religion is good for people. The reason I believe religion is good thIng is that most morals are based off of religion, religion has influenced many people to do many things (good and bad) but without religion people would have no morals what so ever meaning that pop culture eessentially controls morals.eligion, could't imagine a world without it. Religion is good for the world. Religion can give hope, peace, a sense of something bigger than we are. Religion can bind and unite us like no other system on the face of the earth.
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- What I'm saying in my books boils down to this: Mine religion for what is good and avoid what is deleterious. Don't condemn people who need it. Be very careful when that need becomes fanatical.
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- The most important part to me is the freedom of religion. the freedom of religion gives me the right to practice my faith in public. though the second most important would be freedom to petition the government because without it the government wouldn't know what to fix.
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Introduction and Overview Less than half of adults under age 30 say that religion is very important in their lives (45%), compared with roughly six-in-ten adults 30 and older (54% among those ages 30-49, 59% among those ages 50-64 and 69% among those ages 65 and older).
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Why Does Religion Exist? Problem of Explaining Religion: Religion is a pervasive and significant cultural phenomenon, so people who study culture and human nature have sought to explain the nature of religion, the nature of religious beliefs, and the reasons why religions exist in the first place.igmund Freud-Religion is Mass Neurosis: According to Sigmund Freud, religion is a mass neurosis and exists as a response to deep emotional conflicts and weaknesses. A by-product of psychological distress, Freud argued that it should be possible to eliminate the illusions of religion by alleviating that distress.
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Why Is Religion so Important? All of this makes me think that religion is important because people could rely on it when they are feeling down, religion can also help turn a person from doing bad into doing something that will benefit him or herself in the future.1  Add new comment. 2  Share.ll of this makes me think that religion is important because people could rely on it when they are feeling down, religion can also help turn a person from doing bad into doing something that will benefit him or herself in the future. 1  Add new comment. 2  Share.
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6 Ways Religion Does More Bad Than Good Most British people think religion causes more harm than good according to a survey commissioned by the Huffington Post. Surprisingly, even among those who describe themselves as “very religious” 20 percent say that religion is harmful to society.ost British people think religion causes more harm than good according to a survey commissioned by the Huffington Post. Surprisingly, even among those who describe themselves as “very religious” 20 percent say that religion is harmful to society.
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Americaâs Religious Future: Dechristianization (Not Secularization) Christianity though does not equal religion. As the Protestant Christian tradition loses coherence and sway in American society, religious life flourishes, and religious cultures infuse communities with new ideas about what is sacred and what is not, who to revere and who to demonize, why we live and why we die.
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- If America is 77% self identified as Christian (and 85% religious of some type), and 75% of society thinks that more religion would be good for America, why is church attendance declining? And why is religion's influence in America decreasing?ven the Emperor Constantine in the 300's AD is said to have thought that religion was good for society, and it was a big reason he legalized Christianity in the first place.
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- Religion provides social control, cohesion, and purpose for people, as well as another means of communication and gathering for individuals to interact and reaffirm social norms. Durkheim's second purpose was in identifying certain elements of religious beliefs that are common across different cultures.
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Ãmile Durkheim (1858â1917) We arrive thus at the following definition: A religion is a unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things, that is to say, things set apart and forbidden -- beliefs and practices which unite into one single moral community called a Church, all those who adhere to them.
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Religion and Politics But religious beliefs and practices also potentially support politics in many ways. The extent and form of this support is as important to political philosophers as is the possibility for conflict. Moreover, there has been a growing interest in minority groups and the political rights and entitlements they are due.
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Religion's Role Religion is a cause of the retention of conservative or traditional values. Thus the form of society is an effect of the religious form in that society. Another position is that religion can cause change in society, and society adopts a new moral order.
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Will religion ever disappear? “You’d have to fundamentally change something about our humanity to get rid of religion.” This biological sticking point probably explains the fact that, although 20% of Americans are not affiliated with a church, 68% of them say that they still believe in God and 37% describe themselves as spiritual.or all of these reasons, many scholars believe that religion arose as “a byproduct of our cognitive disposition”, says Robert McCauley, director of the Center for Mind, Brain and Culture at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, and author of Why Religion Is Natural and Science Is Not.
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What role does religion play in today's society? 1 The role that religion sometimes plays in society is evidence by all the animosity, bigotry and intolerance in the world today and also on this R&S forum.2  Religion has a very powerful influence in economics and politics. 3  It can be a very effective and rewarding tool in the hands of shrewd individuals. The role that religion sometimes plays in society is evidence by all the animosity, bigotry and intolerance in the world today and also on this R&S forum.