Essays on Religion Page 150

Vegetarianism as a path to fulfilling one’s religious duty is fully paved in the Laws of Manu (Ch.5) for those wishing to avoid injury to any animal. Not only is animal slaying and butchering described as injurious, but also its fettering before death. Vegetarianism also fulfills a faith requirement for those without the means for…

The prophet Joseph Smith translated the book of Mormon through a serious of miracles made only possible through god. Over the span of a couple of years Joseph, with the help of others, successfully translated this sacred text. Through this process Joseph used different articles given to him from God which helped him accomplish his…

September 11 is a day that is now forever synonymous with one of the worst tragedies that Americans have ever had to face. On that day, a growing al-Qaeda launched a series of attacks in multiple locations – two attacks were launched on the Twin Towers in New York, another one struck the Pentagon, and…

            The existence of God had always been a controversial and debatable topic.  It was established that God’s existence can never be proven.  First, God is a figure of faith and all that falls under the category of faith cannot be proven.  Also, God’s existence cannot be demonstrated; that which cannot be demonstrated cannot be…

Perhaps one of the most prominent features of global expansion and exploration that occurred during the path of recorded history was the many exchanges that occurred among civilizations, where anything ranging form religious ideals, technology, to various forms of cultural diffusion occurred. Unlike previous global exchanges that occurred among civilizations before the 16th and 17th…

Spread of Islam vs. Spread of Christianity 600 CE to 1250 CE—a time in which Islam’s golden age took place and, from a Eurocentric point of view, a time of Christian expansion and conversion—was a period of religious spread and expansion. While Islam was “spread by the sword” due to the military conquests and expansion…

Cultural Artifacts There are two artifacts that I am going to be analyzing. One of the artifacts I have chosen is “The Lamentation” by Giotto di Bondone who was an Italian. This painting was done around the year 1305 around the 15th Century and placed in the Scrovegni Chapel, Padua Italy. The Scrovegni Chapel has…

To what degree does maintaining obedience to authority lead to aggressive or violent behavior? After reading The Lottery and The Stanford Prison Experiment, I believe that I can answer this question, as both passages helped me develop analogies on this subject by comparing their concepts with real life situations. While they are both very different…

Love and marriage, love and marriage, they go together like a steed and carriage!’ So murmured Francis Albert ‘Straight to the point’ Sinatra during the 1950s. After sixty years, another Francis is rehashing similar verses, but with a marginally progressively authoritative song. In the fourth part of his missional urging Amoris Laetitia, on Love in…

What we know the world to be today is not what the world has always been like. Millions of years ago, continents that were once connected drifted apart from each other, otherwise known as continental drift. North and South America were, at one point, connected to Eurasia and Africa. This shift caused many changes, for…