Q. How can religion be both a unifying and a dividing force?
How religion can be both a unifying and a dividing force? Use examples to explain this seeming contradiction. Religion is a powerful aspect of culture: it can unit people, but it can also divide people. Most major religions developed in one distinct area and spread over time.
Q. How does religion binds community together through ritual and tradition?
The repetition of rituals instils religious values and attitudes in the lives of the worshippers. Ritual also expresses and emphasises the things that bind a faith community together, and through ritual both individuals and communities make visible their most basic religious needs, values and aspirations.
Table of Contents
- Q. How can religion be both a unifying and a dividing force?
- Q. How does religion binds community together through ritual and tradition?
- Q. How does religion influence your identity?
- Q. How does religion affect someone?
- Q. Is it important to have religion?
- Q. Do we need God for morality?
- Q. Does religion matter more than faith?
- Q. Can you pray if you’re not religious?
- Q. Do agnostics believe in a higher power?
Q. How does religion influence your identity?
Evidence from the existing suggests that religion is positively correlated with identity formation. The influence of religion on identity formation may also work through parental influence. Children whose parents are significantly religious are more likely to be significantly religious themselves.
Q. How does religion affect someone?
Depending on where you live, religion may also make you feel better about yourself by making you feel part of your larger culture. People who are religious have higher self-esteem and better psychological adjustment than people who aren’t, according to a January 2012 study.
Q. Is it important to have religion?
Religion helps in creating an ethical framework and also a regulator for values in day to day life. This particular approach helps in character building of a person. In other words, Religion acts as an agency of socialization. Thus, religion helps in building values like love, empathy, respect, and harmony.
Q. Do we need God for morality?
Therefore, all moral commands are the commands of a single, external agent. We are heavily influenced by moral commands and other commands of reason. Thus, the commands of morality (and the commands of reason more generally) require a god because they are, and can only be, the commands of one.
Q. Does religion matter more than faith?
No matter what one’s religious preference may be, a religion is nothing without having faith in the teachings. Whether a religion or one’s own mind brings on faith, it is what creates hope and allows us to understand the good and the bad in this journey we call life.
Q. Can you pray if you’re not religious?
Talking to God or the Divine has nothing to do with religion, and it does not have to be tethered to any particular belief. Praying doesn’t have to mean bowing down over a Bible or kneeling in front of an altar. Prayer can be just talking to God in your head, or out loud — anytime, any place.
Q. Do agnostics believe in a higher power?
Belief in a higher power was found in every segment of the religiously unaffiliated population. Overall, 70 percent of the nones said they believe in a spiritual force. Among agnostics, it was 62 percent. Even among atheists, nearly 1 in 5 (or 18 percent) said they believe in a higher power.