Religion question of the week:
September 17, 2015
"Although we have a capacity to create disorder and sin, every human is directed toward good."
Everyone has the potential to create good in the world or create bad in the world, but everyone is pointed in the direction to create good things in the world. But even though everyone is directed in the path of good not everyone stays on that path, sometimes they stray from the path of good and eventually find their way back and sometimes they fall right off of the path of good and don't find their way back.
When a baby is born it is innocent it has potential for both good and bad, what the child becomes; either good or bad, is influenced by the environment they live in and what kind of people they are raised with. If they are raised in an unhealthy environment with fighting and stuff then they will think that what they saw growing up is right and be influenced to do the same. If they are raised in a healthy environment then they will do the same. It's "Monkey See Monkey Do"....
September 22, 2015
"Everyone has difficulty in fully believing in religion at some point during their life. In paragraph form and using educated language, describe at least one instance or one aspect of life that makes it difficult to fully believe or remain faithful at all times. Your response should be no less than 100 words."
When something happens that you don't agree with like someone dying or getting sick. Something like that can make it hard for someone to believe in God because they think that if God was real then he wouldn't make this happen.
October 8, 2015
These 3 statements are most important to me.
1. *Respect and take care of nature. Environmental degradation “is one of the biggest challenges we have,” he said. “I think a question that we're not asking ourselves is: 'Isn't humanity committing suicide with this indiscriminate and tyrannical use of nature?'”*
Protecting and taking care of nature is very important because nature is a beautiful thing. If we destroy nature we are destroying trees which give us oxygen and if we don't have oxygen we will die.
2. Stop being negative. “Needing to talk badly about others indicates low self-esteem. That means, 'I feel so low that instead of picking myself up I have to cut others down,'” the Pope said. “Letting go of negative things quickly is healthy.”
If you think about everything negatively you won't get very far in life because you will have a closed mindset. Cutting others down because you feel bad won't fix anything, you will just drag others down with you.
3. Don't proselytise; respect others' beliefs. “We can inspire others through witness so that one grows together in communicating. But the worst thing of all is religious proselytism, which paralyses: 'I am talking with you in order to persuade you,' No. Each person dialogues, starting with his and her own identity. The church grows by attraction, not proselytising,” the Pope said.
Just because you believe in a certain thing doesn't mean everyone else does. Saying that everything they believe is wrong isn't right.
October 20
Appreciation- appreciation is important to me because I found out that if you learn to appreciate things you will get far in life.
Change- change is important to me because change is important it means that a person is growing and becoming something new
Commitment- commitment is important because I never committed to anything i ever did when inwas younger and I learned that because I didnt commit to things It got hard when i got older
Discipline- discipline is very important to me because i was raised with discipline but my younger siblings werent and now they dont consider consequences
Happiness- Happiness is the most important of all because if you are not happy in life or with yourself you wont enjoy things. if you arent happy with yourself you wont be happy with anything.
December 1, 2015
We are influenced by media to look, talk, and act a certain way... Media makes standards that everyone follows and if you don't follow those standards no one will like you. Media makes it impossible to be yourself and be liked for it. At a young age we are already influenced to like a certain colour and wear certain clothes, girls are to like pink ; boys are to like blue ; girls are to wear dresses and skirts and be girly. In society men and women are still classified into specific categories. Women belong at home in the kitchen with the kids- wrong, women belong in the same workplace that a man does, we are equal to them. sport teams also split in girl sports and guy sports, girl sport are considered figure skating, volleyball, tennis, badminton and guy sports are considered anything to do with contact. We should not be classified into gender categories, girls can play girl or guy sports and guys can play guy or girl sports.