Essays about Religion Page 2

Mormonism, one of America’s strongest and most influential religions, was not always popular with the people. Joseph Smith was the leader of the Church of Jesus Christ and the Latter Day Saints, and the leader of the Mormon, faith. Through all the scapegoating and violence, Mormons were forced out of countless states, and were prosecuted…

Anson Shupe and John Heinerman. The Mormon Corporate Empire. Boston: Beacon Press, 1985. The discussion of the Church Security Program in this book is under a heading titled “The Myth of Mormon Welfare.” This is of the bat giving the reader a bias of not believing in the Welfare Program installed by the church, and…

Plato once stated that thinking is “the talking of the soul with itself.’ As a great philosopher, Plato has intrigued the minds of many people through his view on the soul as a living thing. He believes that the soul is immortal and lives on forever throughout each life. Although there are many ideas about…

Religion should be used as a tool for self-improvement in humans rather than something that limits life experiences. The 19th century, German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche had very notable things to say about Christianity: “I call Christianity the one great curse, the one intrinsic depravity… In the entire New Testament, there is only person worth respecting:…

Death occurs when a person’s heart stops beating. Their brain shuts down, they stop breathing, and all life process ceases. Death is the final state of life, at least medically. The principal proposition of what occurs after death is explained through different religious beliefs, all in vast reasoning across thousands of years of ancient texts…

Most people, when looking for the will of God in their life, look for a magical moment to be called by the Lord to do anything for His work. This is the wrong approach when looking for God’s will, especially with mission work. Most of the time when people look for a magical or emotional…

Culture gives us knowledge of other people’s lives. It teaches us what language, religion, or what race we are. It defines a person by where they’re from, it gives information about that person’s personality, interests, and identity. Any Asian or African man or woman can easily be identified from their color or their face by…

In 1744, Abn Al Wahhab fled Medina from a group of fellow Nejd scholar, finding shelter in Diriyah. Wahhab was a religious scholar who wanted the Arabian peninsula to follow a stricter form of Islam. To him it is the true form, all other versions of Islam, he publicly denounced and insulted. In Diriyah, he…

The billions of dollars, hours of time and energy that goes into mission trips all over the world has not done anything to improve the long term sustainability of the towns within the areas. The thought in hindsight isn’t bad; a group of people trying to spread their beliefs throughout the world while trying to…

Throughout history, people have developed many different religions and worshiped numerous deities. During the first and second century, people began the conversion from believing in many gods to believing in just one. Due to the mass confusion of thousands of gods, the lack of unity, and the constant wars causing all people to fear death…