Ate Kathy's Religious Studies Blog

2008-12-18T16:52:00.000-08:00

Testing to see if it works.

Q: Has a person who has "lost" her faith contradicted herself ?

2008-12-12T15:11:00.000-08:00

This question tickles me because this is exactly what I ask my self. No, I definitely feel that a women who has so called ' lost " her faith contradicts her self. What if this women experiences so many hardships and misfortunes in her life? Then, feels she must than change her ultimate belief because the experiences and beliefs that have some- what changed her life. I've recently changed my spiritual beliefs because I feel that I was once lied to about this certain religion I had thus, setting my own mind from now on would be best. its not that I lost my faith, its just that now, I have my own mind. I don't feel comfortable with the brainwash feeling.

Religion as a projection of ones self.

2008-11-20T11:33:00.000-08:00

I felt that Feuerbach's approach in explaining why religion is used a a sort of projection of what an individual sees within themselves is very true because many people want to see things there way, what they can see makes them define whats real and if not physically seen than it must not exists and everyone is wrong. As for Hegel, he says there's an ultimate being and that every other mick/mach religion only discovers and progresses towards the christian faith, a sort of universal rationality, examining objects of reality. In my opinion, maybe things intangible may not need an explanation. We are driven only by the capacity of our minds and everything physical follows therefore, individuals who believe that love, thought and everything that makes us human shouldn't feel like its non-existent instead to see it's everywhere just not in plain sight. I think it would be pretty awesome if a human had the sight to physically see love, thought and other feelings that's fluid in our mind. Something as complex and brilliant as the mind contains what we cant comprehend. Hope I'm making some sort of sense.

Theoretical Prop

2008-11-18T17:26:00.000-08:00

The point that was bought up in class about the question a Buddhist believer would have compared to a Muslim believer realy stood out. The example being asked, "Is there suffering in the world" and the other being "Do you believe there's a God?" Both these questions serve a good purpose to show us that the answer must back up that belief and not be the opposite. In other words the Buddhist and Muslim believer would have to say yes because it would socially be the norm. I question my life just thinking about this, saying one thing and committing to it.This would be considered a Theoretical Prop I believe.

Supernatural Necessity

2008-10-30T15:33:00.000-07:00

I was a bit lost when I was asked what Supernatural Necessity meant. In one aspect, I new it had to do with the need for something just to have and I was half right. It means something that must be, will happen , must be the case or just the way things are in a logical sense. I can really connect with this term because to my understanding, I was conditioned and it has been accepted in our society to feel this so it only seems right. Phillips argues that although this reality we live in has it's dialogue, we are already fixed in the nature of things. Phillips also suggests we examine every belief and assume, to just be critical. So, can we ever get loose of this reality? I think we can in some senses if we opened our heats and minds to the understandings of others.