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Essays on Religion
Title: Does God Exist?
Details: Words: 1000, Pages: 4... tries to show the different steps that can prove God
does exist and that the world had to have been created by God. This article is
comprised of five different ways in which Aquinas tries to prove that we can be
sure that God exists. In the third way, Aquinas tries to show that God exists
if it is true that we exist.
In the article Aquinas says that it is possible for things to exist and
for them not to exist. He means that living things will one day become non-
living things. Aquinas believes that all things can not be mortal because if it
were true, then at some point nothing would exist. What he means is if all
things were living things, meaning that ...
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Title: Buddha
Details: Words: 2461, Pages: 9... This dream was soon interpreted by the wise man Brahmin who came and said if her son were to remain in the castle he would become the wisest king in the world, but if he were to leave he would become the wisest prophet far into future generations.
In around the year 563 BC, Siddhartha Gautama was born into a life of pure luxury. His father wanted to make sure that his son was well taken care of as he grew to prevent him from desiring to leave the palace. Suddhodhana, listening to the prophecy, kept Siddhartha away from the pain of reality so that he could follow in his father’s footsteps in becoming a well-respected leader.
As Siddhartha grew, he became v ...
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Title: The Buddha's Four Noble Truths: A Logical Basis For Philosophy
Details: Words: 1640, Pages: 6... which the whole of Buddhism is based, and provide a solid
foundation for a philosophy which is applicable several millennia after its
formulation.{1}
"What we call a 'being,' or an 'individual,' or 'I,' according to Buddhist
philosophy, is only a combination of ever-changing physical and mental forces or
energies...." - Walpola Rahula{2}
In order to fully understand the Four Noble Truths, it is necessary to
investigate the Buddhist view of the individual and its makeup. In some
respects, the manner in which Buddhism deals with the mind/body problem is much
more advanced than most religious views, and closer to science's understanding
of the mind and body. Rath ...
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Title: The Mormons
Details: Words: 714, Pages: 3... that told him to establish the restored Christian Church. He
was "directed" to some thin metal plates that he translated into what is now
called the book of Mormons. This book describes the history, wars, and
religious beliefs of a group of people who migrated from Jerusalem to America.
Smith attracted a small group of followers who settled in Kirtland, Ohio, and
Jackson County, Missouri. Because of persecution, the church moved to northern
Missouri, then to Nauvoo, Illinois. The people of Illinois welcomed the
persecuted Mormons, and Smith began to construct a temple and a hotel there. In
1843, Smith secretly instituted the practice of plural marriage among a ...
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Title: Taoism And Buddhism
Details: Words: 2239, Pages: 9... two.
The goal in Taoism is to achieve tao, to find the way. Tao is the ultimate
reality, a presence that existed before the universe was formed and which
continues to guide the world and everything in it. Tao is sometimes identified
as the Mother, or the source of all things. That source is not a god or a
supreme being, as Taoism is not monotheistic. The focus is not to worship one
god, but instead on coming into harmony with tao (Hartz, 8).
Tao is the essence of everything that is right, and complications exist
only because people choose to complicate their own lives. Desire, ambition,
fame, and selfishness are seen as hindrances to a harmonious ...
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Title: The Transcendental Movement Of 1830s
Details: Words: 781, Pages: 3... the Boston area in the early nineteenth century."5
Transcendental beliefs focused on "the importance of spirit over
matter."6 Ralph Waldo Emerson, a well known Transcendentalist, felt that
"all men aspire to the highest, and most of them spend their lives seeking
money and power only because they see nothing higher."7 Followers also
believed in a spiritual hunger, or the need to find themselves one with the
world. In addition, they believed in "an ascending hierarchy of spiritual
values rising to absolute good, truth, and beauty."8 Transcendentalists
also believed in a supreme being, the Oversoul, and felt that "if the
Oversoul is all powerful and at the sa ...
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Title: Back To Religion?
Details: Words: 949, Pages: 4... the account of different theories and view points from one belief to the next. Land and lives taken only for the sake of disagreements between churches. The settlers exploring the New World were trying to leave all of the chaos of these churches. Not that they did not want to be religious but they wanted a choice.
Coming to the Americas in the time frame from fifteen hundred to 1770 was promising for settlers on a journey for new lives. Many people were looking for wealth and fortune but most of all freedom. Freedom was about all that was available. Freedom of few choices, most of the new people worked heard for others or even became slaves against their wil ...
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Title: Who Was Jesus?
Details: Words: 1389, Pages: 6... pleased by followers that love not
only God, but each other also. These seem like simple, logical rules to live by.
But, they reflected a time in history where that kind of love for one another
was hard to find because of the hardships inflicted upon the people.
I find some conflict in Jesus' actions, however. Jesus never (as far as I
know) says to ignore to commandments of God in the Hebrew Scriptures; however,
constantly breaks the Sabbath (Matt 12:13 and others), and gives VERY flimsy and
unconvincing explanations for it. I am not sure what his message was in those
actions. Perhaps he didn't care?
In general, Matthew was a good, entertaining story ...
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Title: Heaven's Gate Cult
Details: Words: 971, Pages: 4... a patch on their arm that said, "Heaven’s Gate, Away Team."
The leader’s of heaven’ Gate were Marshall Applewhite and Bonnie Nettles. They believed that the humans above all others sent Jesus to teach on how to get to the "Kingdom of God." They carried on this belief, but in a different form. They said that a UFO would come and take them to the level of the "Kingdom of God." The ability to accomplish this was by leaving behind the body in which their soul live. To prepare themselves, each person gave up possessions, hid who they were, watched their diets, and accepted abstinence. Upon the coming of the Hale-Bopp comet, were they thought the UFO maintained, ...
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Title: David And Goliath
Details: Words: 423, Pages: 2... the power of weapons, and was
sure that a sword and spear would win the battle. It's difficult to say what
this meant to the Hebrews, but I interpreted it as symbolizing that the
superiority and strength of their Lord was stronger than was any weapon. I
gathered this, since one of the statements mentioned in 1 Samuel was: "the Lord
does not save by sword and spear; for the battle is the Lord's and he will give
you into our hand" (17:47). Since the Lord's followers were the Israelites, the
Lord savedhis people from harm through sending David to conquer Goliath.
The story of David and Goliath is a tale still told in modern day. I assume it
signifies the fact tha ...
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