When I started this
blog I was only doing it for a grade. As many of my reader know I am in an
English Comp class at Jacksonville State
University taught by Tanya Sasser.
Over the course of the semester I have tried to inform my readers of the various
religions that exist and have existed over the course of human history. I tried
to let you know about different things that those people believe, or to give
you insight to why they lived their lives in a certain way.
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Vikings Believed
that you could only enter Valhalla of you were killed in battle. So they spent
much of their life pillaging and burning other civilizations.
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Snake Handlers
think that if you are a true Christian you are invincible (they’re obviously
wrong).
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Hindus and
Buddhists believe that you have to answer for your actions weather you “repent”
of them or not. Karma even follows you to the next life, this makes them
(mostly) very peaceful people.
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Mormons believe
that it is possible for a man to rise to the level of God, if he is important
enough (like John Smith). They also believe some other crazy stuff (i.e. Burnt
people, and Magic Underpants)
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Greeks believed their
Gods to be fallible and imperfect.
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Christians
believe that as long as they believe in Jesus and repent of their sins, God
will forgive them no matter what they do.
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Atheists don’t
believe in any of it. We just feel like everyone should be good to each other
and get along.
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I even showed how
religions borrow stories from one another.
Every
one of these groups of people feel like their answer is the only correct
answer.
Everyone feels like everyone
else is wrong. Each religion has a way
of forcing their beliefs on another. For some, like Jehovah’s Witness, this
involves knocking on your door at 6 a.m. on Saturday morning. For others, like
the Catholic Church, this involves forcing the rest of the world to accept their
morals, weather we believe them or not. In many cases spreading the word of
religion can be a good thing, many missionaries travel to other countries and
build homes and schools, feed, and clothe poor children. But in some cases it
is taken too far, today in America, we deny marriages, abortions, birth
control, and even sex education all based off the religious views of one group
of Americans. We all need to step back and try and see the world through the
eyes of someone else sometimes. We get so caught up in our own culture that we
forget that other people see things differently, this doesn’t make them
inherently bad, this only makes them different.
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Even though the class I started this blog for ends this
week, I will still continue to post until people stop reading. Thank you to all
of my classmates who have helped me become a better writer over the last few
months. I wish you all the best of luck.
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