INTRODUCTION TO WORLD RELIGION-4th Prelim Examination for 2nd semester

LESSON: Positive and Negative effects of religion

Religion

-Provides and solace to people when they are down and hopeless.

-It is binding fabric for the society.

-It provodes objective to people for work or for their life.

Positive effects of religion on individual and society:

1. as a way of devotion

2. As recourse to have mental peace

3. Religions encourages social work

4. through revolution

5. Religion teaches men to be compassionate

6. Religion provides wisdom

1. As a way of devotion

-Religion is an individual’s way of devotion and process of connecting.

-These patterns of behaviors or innate in all humankind.

Divine

Process of connecting which whom he/she believes

Spiritual someone

To whom he/she offers his/her adoration and gratitude

The Black Nazareno

Example is

2. As recourse to have mental peace

-Many believe that the realization of the supreme power. Above the human ego is only possible by following the path of religion.

-It Teaches people that wealth would not say after death, but it is the good deads that remain till enternity.

-A religion person never loses focus and enjoy peace of mind

3. Religions encourages social work

-Many religious organizations engage in social work for that contributes to the welfare of society.

-These Provides aims to the poor, conduct medical missions to the underpriviledged, and also set up educational institutions for the youth so that tehy can have access to formal education.

-Religion also promotes good will in the society by fostering a sense of brotherhood among the people.

Example is the

Helping the poor the KABAYAN KO,KAPATID KO Program of the iglesia ni cristo- involves distributing medicines and providing relief goods to calamity victims.

4. Through revelation

Based on the concept, religion spawned from a primitive divine revelation

Primitive divine revelation

Religion is conceived from a assumption that in the beginning, there is god who revealed his being to man in different manners essential

5. Religion teaches men to be compassionate

-Religious people are compassionate towards other as religion teaches its followers to be benevolent and sympathetic to other human beings

-It regulates life and encourages individuals not to indulge in bad habits that are detrimental to society.

-Majority of people suffering from drug related and alcoholic addiction turn towards religion to develop will power to stop the bad habits or vice

6. Religion provides wisdom

Holy book like the bible and the vedas impart wisdom to the people which benefits humanity as a whole, all religion stress on following the path of righteous

Negative effects of religiom on individual and society

1. Religion as expansionist tool

2. Religion tends to have conflicts with science

3. Religion tends to discriminate

4. Religion can be used as a political

1. Religion as expansionist tool

The battles of tours

Expansionist

- Person or entity that believes in increasing the size importance of something

-Country’s territory or business

2.Religion tends to have conflicts with science

-In one of the most majordrawbacks of religion, as far science is concerned is the belief that the world originated from a supernatural powers

-A classic example is Galileo

2.Religion tends to discriminate

-A religious rarely respects the right of minority religion and even some social groups

4.Religion can be used as political tool

-Political parties around the world exploit the general discontentment among people to whip up the religious passion and capture power

-This i dangerous trend leading to a was that might cause large scale casualties in terms of human life and property

Great benefit from religion

•Teaching of good will

•Role in promoting ethics in political life

•Inner strength

•The message of forgiveness

•Man’s thrist to unknowable

•Selfless service

•Religious music

•Religous art

Summary

Within every religion, there is outer imperfection. But these are also teaching and a culture which can help lift up man to live a better mire fulfilling and more selfless life