LESSON 2-3

Cards (30)

  • Summerians organized themselves through temple communities
  • Morality = right or wrong actions
  • Promotes Social Harmony - Religion provides divine authority to ethical and moral principles which also help promote unity among people
  • Babaylanes – continue rituals, intercede between deities and people, serve as healers, and act as leaders
  • Religious leaders mediate between deities and people
  • Sufi Dervishes – whirling to reach the source of all perfection
  • Jainism = ahimsa (The concept of non-violence)
  • Ahimsa = making sure that people in the group live their lives without doing any form of violence to other life forms
  • Provides moral values - Perhaps one of the most significant functions of religion is that it encourages moral values. It provides a model systematic of the universe, which effect determines organized human behavior. By providing moral values, one is able to distinguish right from wrong. good or evil. It also provides a systems of reward and punishment that administers and standardizes people behavior in society.
  • Provides Social Change - Religion has the potential to institute social change, especially in the issues concerning poverty, reproductive health, gender equality and religious discrimination
  • Reduces Fear of the Unknown - Myths about creation abound but more importantly, religion has provided assurances as to where spirits will go when people die, reducing people's fear of death as something undesirable.
  • Hindus = dharma
  • Christians = obeying the Ten Commandments
  • Gives Positive Goals in Life - The narratives given by the different prophets of different religions may give people a sense of meaning in life.
  • Gives People a Sense of Belongingness - Religion provides people personal identity as part of a group with similar worldviews, beliefs, values, practices, and lifestyle.
  • Affirms Social Hierarchy - Some religions favor men and as a result, perpetuate the notion of class or gender discrimination or oppression
  • Causes Discrimination - Some people do not tolerate religious ideologies different from the one they follow, Religious fanaticism can lead to feelings of hatred, which could lead to racism and violence
  • Religion affirms Social Hierarchy - Caste system in India reflects political and social structures. People had to be divided into certain social classes with particular roles
  • Religion causes Discrimination - In Islam, the practice of wearing the hijab is considered as a suppression against Muslim women
  • Triggers Conflicts and Fights - Wars have fought in the name of religion. Numerous lives were sacrificed and lost and this phenomenon continues up to the present time
  • Economic Tool for Exploiting the Masses - This is in relation to his critical approach to religion in which he proposed that the bourgeoisie keep the proletariat in control through religion
  • According to the German philosopher, Karl Marx, "religion is the opium of the massess"
  • Impedes Scientific Success and Development - Some religions have rituals that impede scientific success. Some are even unsanitary which may cause more danger to people
  • Religion impedes Science - Some religions express their disapproval against reproductive health programs that empower couples in responsible family planning through education and access to legal and medically safe birth control, claiming that such programs defy religious doctrine
  • Religion obstructs the use of reason - Ancient religious practices which have proven to be inhuman should be replaced with sensible ones.
  • Trepanning – ancient practice of boring holes in the human skull with the belief that through the hole, the evil spirit will leave the person.
  • Self - Immolation - practice of setting yourself on fire as a form of sacrifice
  • Sati - an ancient tradition in India where women would throw themselves on their husbands' pyre and burn to death
  • Inquisition - derived from the Latin word inquiro (to inquire into)
  • Inquisition refers to a series of institutions within the Catholic Church that were established to identify, investigate, and prosecute individuals accused of heresy