Article by Gene Lalor

religion is a concept

confusing and extremely dangerous concept enigmatic.

General as “a particular system of beliefs about God, often associated with rituals, a code of ethics and a philosophy of life, defined” as “the opium of the people” by the Communists Marx, Karl, regardless of the definition or interpretation of twisted atheist, admits virtually all human beings on the planet, the belief in one or another form of religion.

However, religious and seemingly always at the root of the conflict.

In the not too distant past, religion in America, the Christian religion in particular was a staple of life, the average growth against the winds of cultural evolution and political belief systems of scrapheaps relegated to a politically incorrect amoral, secular humanism, nihilism irreligionism and political leaders and social promotion.

Social change is memorable for the relatively recent revival of one of the most prominent religions of the world, Islam, which has the name of their faith, Muslims 1.2-1600000000 followers worldwide and 2.8 to 10 million Muslims in America, said Jihad, a religious war or the battle of the radical Islamists and committed against non-Islamists.

In plain language, we are at war, and we could lose.

off guard with religious leaders in America, if not buried, the last words of Mohammed Atta before the attacks can be successful by appalling 11.09, “Allahu Akbar (الله أكبر)”, as the ultimate battle of Islam to be taken against the Intifada and the West they attack when we are least prepared morally. Allah is perhaps not the greatest, but our God has been forgotten, if not abandoned

advantage. Allah.

This is not to suggest either that the war was always good, nor that our God is necessarily superior to their God, our God and his earthly representatives have always preached and fought for the right and right, even if we mortals often failed in the quest.

On the other hand, the conquest and death, war and oppression have never been the teachings of Christianity. They have long been Operating standard dogma of Islam as preached by the Holy Prophet Muhammad ‘Abdullah ibn since the seventh century, and they have proven ways to at least a temporary victory.

Advantage: Muhammad. ” / P> religion alone can not save and preserve America and Western civilization from the onslaught Muslim, now under way for decades.

A strong conviction that what we believed and represented a sense of the uniqueness of America that we are special, we know what we got and what we have done our beliefs and freedoms are preserved and strengthened us, and the West in the past.

Islam beliefs repressive systems, virtually free of these freedoms will encourage the Muslim world. When there is a divine inspiration to take what others have.

Advantage: Muslims.

Welcome to enforce Christianity and the west end? The answer depends on whether we are ready to go where we went wrong and how to admit you get this wrong path. Based on our recent history and secular humanist philosophy that prevails the U.S. President and his followers, we should not expect that religion has no hope

match.? Islam

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The Hawaiian Islands have long been compared not to the year 4500 A great millions of the Earth. The first to leave Hawaii Island, in fact, the island of Kauai, about 6,000,000 years.
The ancient Hawaiians were Polynesians and had a polytheistic religion. During a period of time, the Hawaiians, Polynesians and others developed a complex system of gods and goddesses of the beach and form.
This network was composed of gods and goddesses gods and goddesses major demigods and various other gods and goddesses.  Gods and goddesses had six two. Included was the supreme god of the gods, Keawe. He thought it was the original spirit that was present at the birth of the world. Keawe was considered the ancestor of all the gods and goddesses. The seven other Gods, from which the Holy Eight are Kane (Mr. West) Nwhine (Holy Mother of God and the Goddess of the Moon), Lono (God of the East and fertility), Kanaloa (God occean the South Pacific), K (The God of the North and the war), Papa Wkea Goddess and the God (The leaders of nature).
I find this religion is not working and I think it has to take a lot of similarities with the ancient Egyptians to the birth of the world, unless you just have different names for their gods and so on. I found that many ancient religions that have had no contact with each other and yet had very similar history of the earth and the gods and goddesses.

Scientology was created by an American author and humanitarian L. Ronald Hubbard. He worked on his passion for long life and human nature to create a new lifestyle and a higher civilization.Scientologists believe that people in general good, not evil. Religion is to make the human experience that people can do evil, but not their basic nature is evil. Everyone. They believe that, unlike most religions, people can and must solve their own problems, rather than going to do to religion. You do this by improving the knowledge and skills of individuals to their own lives.L. Ron Hubbard has decided to make a new name for the essence or spirit of the person because there are so many ideas over the millennia. It was developed by the Thetan in the Greek letter theta, the traditional symbol of thought and life was decided.Scientologists believe that in eight dynamics of existence. These are: the need to survive as to the need for personal, family, sex and parenthood to survive, survive to the need in groups to survive the need, as mankind in fixed and the last four by the dynamics of other life forms how animals survive, plants, the physical universe, the spiritual universe as a Supreme Being or infinity, respectively.This modern religion has become very popular that I have to say very quickly. Especially with celebrities like Tom Cruise, etc. seemed more philosophical than religious, to be honest. Not that I Downing, because I it some very interesting philosophies on life and humanity has to think.

The establishment of the Islamic faith in his teaching of the Koran. They believe that this publication are infallible and without error. The Koran consists of 114 suras (chapters), but have more time to shortest. Muslims believe the Koran is the word of God to them after Muhammad. They claim that Muhammad is the last and most perfect of Allah (God) was ambassador.Besides the Koran, there are other documents relating to Muslims. These are the Hadith (a collection of sayings of Muhammad) The Torat (Genesis), suhuf (books of the prophets), Zabur (Psalm Davis) and the Injil (the Gospel of Jesus). However, it should have been damaged in recent years, other than the Koran.Islam is based on five articles of faith and the five pillars of faith.The five elements are the central tenets of Islam. All Muslims must believe in them. The first article of faith is of God: The one true God and God alone is the sole creator of the universe. Secondly, the angels, you believe that angels exist and interact with human life. Everyone has a different purpose or return a message on the earth. Any man or woman has two angels, their shares to register a good record actions of the other shots from the chaff. The third section is written that the only holy book Quran is corrupt. Fourth, is one of the prophets, God has spoken through numerous prophets over time. The six largest are: Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jesus and Muhammad is the largest of all.The five pillars are the duties that every Muslim must perform. The columns are: Creed (to be an Islamic state, there is no God but Allah and Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah is the following prayer groups (Muslims pray five times a day must rise before noon, afternoon, sunset and thereafter. moving in the direction of Mecca in sleep mode), the call to prayer is heard by the muezzin (Muslim Carrier). Third, alms (Muslims are obliged by law to give one-fortieth of income for poor people. Fasting is the fourth pillar of Islam (during the holy month of Ramadan, Muslims fast from sunrise to sunset) and last pillar is the Hajj (the Muslims and should make the journey to Mecca at least once in their life, believe it is important for salvation).

Shamanism goes back to the early birth of the New World to Siberia and Central Asia. Shamanism is not traditionally a group of a charismatic leader organized as such. It is an individualistic religion and can be found in many different cultural backgrounds. Shamanism has maintained its shape, if you will, over time, despite the cultural changes. The descent of the shaman is a shaman. There were shamans before there were gods. This hypothesis is supported by archeology. Shows masked dancing shaman or witch in caves.
The shaman are the fundamental beliefs: Shamanism is a joint effort of the participants to communicate and build relationships with spiritual beings.Second is that shamanism an individualistic approach to the management of nested relationship of life, plants, animals, gods and other deities instead of a traditional religion. Third, to fill, shamans, the role of priest, magician, metaphysician or healer. It depends on the personal experiences of shamans. The knowledge of other realms allows the shaman as a link between the physical and the spiritual world to serve. In addition, the relationship is created by an interaction with a spirit of mutual understanding, respect for spiritual and physical health of participants. Although the trip is for those who self-healing and self-development issues, is not the main goal to serve entirely to themselves. It is difficult to develop a relationship with all life through regular practice. Through regular practice of which we believe could be cured, and then in turn be able to heal others and help them develop and grow. Shamans are usually regarded as traditional healers, herbalists, spiritual adviser and interpreter Dream.
I liked the study of the shamans for their connection with other different areas along there and not ancient history and very interesting.

Last but not least, know the belief system of Wicca, or even as an order. Various forms of Wicca have over time itself existed. In fact, Wicca is older than any of the five major religions Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism and Sikhism. There were many branches of Wicca, in recent years, as Gardnerian Wicca, Alexandrian Wicca, Dianic Wicca, Celtic Wicca (Church of Wicca) Wicca and Georgia.
Wicca is on 13 principles, discourse and Wicca-based law of three.
The 13 principles are: the Wiccan rituals (rituals) that marks the natural rhythm of life forces through the phases of the moon and a quarter of the season and the Barrio de la Cruz mixture. Recognize that their intelligence has a unique responsibility towards the environment. You try, in harmony with nature, live with respect for the environment the best balance of life and consciousness within an evolutionary concept. Third, it recognizes to a depth of power far greater than the obvious, the average person. They see this knowledge and power as possible for all but the most unresolved enough to learn. They believe in the polarity of the creative power. It is a male and female, and that the same creative energy is everywhere, and works through the interaction between men and women. Wicca neither male nor female figures above the other, knowing that any support is essential and for others. Wicca value sex so much fun, the embodiment of life and as a source of energy in magical practice and worship are used to connect with the divine name. Recognize the two outer worlds (physical world) and the inner world (spiritual worlds). Wicca has no authoritarian hierarchy, but seen in terms of teachers, their participation in knowledge and wisdom, and for those who have given leadership. Wicca see religion, magic and wisdom to be united, as we see the world and life in him. They also believe that a witch is a witch – but not inherited itself, not the collection of titles, degrees and initiations. A witch tries to control the powers within himself, the wise life possible to live without harm to others and in harmony with nature. They also believe in the affirmation and fulfillment of life.They have no hostility to any religion, provided they do not agree with the approach the only way not because they think they choose to pursue their own lifestyle, there is always more than one option in religion and that we do not remove other beliefs . In addition, the witches were not threatened by debates in the history of the Order, its origins of various terms or legitimacy of various aspects of their traditions, and this treatment of their present and future. In addition to the above, do not accept the idea of absolute evil, nor worship any entity known as Satan or the devil. They do not seek power through the suffering of others to accept, or that personal benefits can be derived only by denial to another. Finally, principle 13 is that they believe they should be statements that, to our health and well-being.
The Wiccan Rede and the Law of Three is the basic foundation of Wicca. The Wiccan Rede is summarized in eight words: No one hurt you do what you want.This means that every time they cause harm to anyone, including you, then use his magic well and it feels more natural to you. Act Three is such a thing as karma, if you want. Means that what is good or bad you always triple to send again. Therefore, we believe it is better to act with love and kindness instead of hatred and resentment.
I think that any faith is better than nothing, though not named, provided they have is to believe something good, what most people can be in my opinion.
Finally, I believe the above to confirm the truth and they are all very good ways of life, but it depends on the individual to decide what is good for them if necessary.
I hope you enjoyed this article, and I hope you got something from him. Thank you for taking the time to read it.

The Balance in the world of religions
Each religion including that of Christianity, Buddhism and Islam had its particular impact on the very essence of the word, shaping its culture, politics, science, social life according to the main prerogatives of the religions mentioned. Moreover, religions had, I would say, the most important influence on history. It is due the conflict between Christianity and Islam the progress of Western society turned out to be so extensive and deep. It is due to Buddhism people try to bring profound changes to their lives making an effort to free themselves from negative influence of the society they live in.

Buddhism

As the religion of more than 90 per cent of Thailand’s population, Buddhism became one of the three pillars of the national ideology, alongside the monarchy and the nation. Since the very beginnings of Buddhism in Thailand in the thirteenth century, it has always been closely linked with the state, and specifically with the king in the form of the dhammaraja (Dharma ruler or just ruler).

Buddhists stress the personal choice of the individual or family when it comes to religion. No religion is superior to another: the goal of all religions is identical–to lead a moral life–and converting others to Buddhism is not given much prominence.

Buddhism in the age of Asoka had made universal claims to the allegiance of man. Eventually, allegiance or commitment would become the major feature of other religions such as Christianity and Islam

Christianity unjustified use of force. The Christians are convinced that theirs is the way of ultimate truth. For Protestants even more than for Catholics, Christianity is seen as superior to all other religions.

Christianity has become the religion of dogmas. However, divided by heresy and factionalism, and permeated by impiety, inequity, iniquity and idolatry Christianity was near to lose its humanistic nature. Still, the image Christianity as a vibrant, active, progressive was a good contrast to a passive inert Islam. This was one of the factors that enabled religious and political hegemony of Western culture.

These were common definitions of differences between these two religions. Edward Freeman, for example, defined the west as progressive, legal, monogamous and Christian, and the East as arbitrary, stationary, polygamous and Mahometan. To William Muir, Islam may have been suitable to the Arabia of the time of Muhammad, but quite unsuited to other times and places: “it binds society hand and foot”, he declared. [Smith B, 1995]. So, my evaluation of Christianity as a religion would look as follows.

Cultural tradition: no religious enthusiasm, argument concerning the relative truth Christianity

Artistic traditions: partial religious contest in all kinds of artistic traditions, the prevalence of secular traditions over religious ones

Political system: Legal basis

Social system: secular and religious patronage, the moral value of women, slavery, , violence and cruelty, revolutions of public life.

Islam as religion of enthusiasm

In the later part of the eighteenth and into the nineteenth century, religious enthusiasm no longer carried the radical political and social implications it had held during Commonwealth and Restoration times. It was more often viewed as potentially self-deceptive than socially disruptive. As Nathan Alcock put it in 1796: “Enthusiasm may cause a man to deceive himself, and take his own fancies and conceptions for divine suggestions. This probably was the case with Mahomet and the success of his enterprises [sic] might still further persuade him that his cause was the cause of God.” [Thomas Alcock T.,, 1796]

In the Victorian period, the cultural hegemony of west over east allowed for modifications to the image of Islam as a religion of force. On the one hand it could be argued that, while an aggressive Islam needed to be opposed, a peaceful Islam was impotent and only fit for cultural improvement.

On the other hand, the role of force in Islam could be down-played. From the middle of the seventeenth century there had been those who decried it as a vulgar opinion that Muhammad spread the faith by the sword. [Tailor.T, 1868].

To cover Islam from the perspective of cultural, artistic, political and social perspective I would like to propose you the following brief analysis of Islam.

Cultural tradition: religious enthusiasm, argument concerning the relative truth of Islam

Artistic traditions: dominance of religious contest in all kinds of artistic traditions

Political system: justified use of force, mission of spreading the faith, imperial confidence in the virtue of Islamic culture, radical political and social implications, the image of Islam as a religion of force, the political decrepitude and moral and social evils

Social system: secular and religious patronage, the moral degradation of women, slavery, the physical and mental debilities of men, envy, violence and cruelty, the disquiet and misery of private life, the continual agitations, commotions, and revolutions of public life.

According to Smith Islam and scientific and political progress are incompatible.

Thus, Islam was often seen as the source of all the evils which, in the western imagination at least, had afflicted Islamic societies. It was Islam, extravagant but not progressive, that had relieved the eastern mind from the discipline of improving itself, and had left it in its preferred state of untamed wildness. Islam and scientific and political progress are incompatible, as Christianity and scientific and political progress are not incompatible”. [Smith B., 1995]

Consequently, Islamic religion can be characterized by

1.Blind devotion to Muhammad

2.The presence of Islamic fatalism.

3.religious intolerance

4.political despotism

Despotism.

The perceived relationship between Islam and despotism has always been the landmark of many disputes. However, I would again refer to Bosworth Smith, who considered that it to be wrong to judge Islam in terms of despotism as well as Christianity in terms of Anabaptists, Pillar Saints, or Shakers. Consequently, a strong tendency to evaluate Islam as the source of all evil is a mistake.

It is quite visible that there are significant differences in the cultures of different religious societies. However, my reading the book by Herb Ziegler Traditions & Encounters: A Global Perspective on the Past has helped me to shape my perception of history as connection of “complex societies”[Ziegler H.,2005] that eventually is an inevitable process for coexistence of different worlds and ways of life. However, the most controversial issue in this aspect is religion.

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Conclusion.

The world religions (Buddhism, Christianity, Islam) created the history and shaped it in the way of continuous contest the outcome of which is the society we are having now as it has been stated in my paper. My research also proved that each religion is unique in its own way, and is build upon long-term traditions. In fact, all religions has both positive and negative sides. Eventually, neither of religions could be defined as right or wrong. That is why everyone must be aware f other civilization’s presence and its cultural, social and political values. Consequently, the rivalry between this West and that East–between the West and Islam–is natural rivalry of two different systems each of which has strong demand for world dominance.

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