In my university we are in middle of midterm week. I am having hard time to catch up in the class...
However in my fundamental to the religion class, I learn interesting way to describe “Religion” to other people. Professor thought us the example of the elephant; depending the place we touch the elephant, there will be different answer. For instance, if we touch the elephant's leg it is hard and stiff like a tree, but if we touch the nose it is soft and long. Hence, in the class we reach to the answer there aren’t any perfect definition of the religion.
At the same time we learned about the two different definition of the religion. That are substantive which comes from some form of substance (God, the sacred), and functional which is providing harmony of community or provide happiness to people. These two differences are completely in different side. One is made from people and one is not.
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I personally believe in GOD but not religions...
ReplyDeleteThey all make me doubt....
I enjoyed reading it :)
ReplyDeleteI am a Christian myself, but Im into sort of atheism these days. I did not grow up in a religiously devoted family, but I always wanted to know about higher being, beyond knowledge and science. If you are interested, there's something about atheistic belief that I posted in the past.
wow, I'm really interested to know more about what you learnt in your Religion class. It sounds very deep and intriguing.
ReplyDeleteI agree that there's no one perfect definition for religion. I am a free thinker, yet I feel that religion is so real despite it being such an abstract topic.