Sunday, August 28, 2011

Week Eleven - World Religions

I don't think that the world will ever fully secularize. There are too many people who feel strongly towards their religion and even though there are many people against religion or who feel it just shouldn't be so publicized as it is, those people will never fully squash. At the same time religion will never take over the world like it used. In this day and age, many people are against believing in something that they either don't want to believe in or that they feel they are forced to believe in. Since the beginning of time people chose religion because it answered their questions. Why it rained? Why their son died? But now, because of modern technology, people don't have to use religion so much as a crutch anymore. 

I believe that a lot of people, in our country specifically, are religious but at the same time many are not. Personally, I don't think religion should be in the government. Facing the issues of, lets say, abortion many people feel that it is wrong. Others feel it isn't a big deal. I think that issues like that, the ones that are based off of religious beliefs should be the person that if affects choice. Whether that person is religious or non it is their choice to do what they want. They shouldn't have a group of people telling them what they can and can't do with their body. 


People don't like to be told what to do. We saw it with the different English kingdoms, when people broke away from their religion to start a new one. If people don't think something is fair or if they believe that they are being trapped by their religion they will either find a new religion, or stop believing all together.
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  1. JasonSeptember 2, 2011 at 8:41 AM

    Layla,

    I agree with you in that I don't think that the people of the world will secularize. Of course, throughout history, we've seen large groups of people become secularized and then have a growing faith. We've seen this in the past century with (communist-occupied) Poland and the former communist-athiest Soviet Union.

    I also agree with you that people shouldn't be forced to believe a certain religion. These people would likely go back to their old beliefs or break of and create their own religion.

    Governments, like our own and most of the west, are mostly secularized these days. The majority of those that are not can be found in the Middle East.

    It is tough though to separate religion from government. Government is made up of people who hold different types of religious beliefs, whatever those may be. And they act on their beliefs in regarding to topics such as abortion. But people don't need to be religious to be opposed to that practice. For example, even science tells us that abortion stops a beating heart.

    -Jason

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