...Critical Thinking – PHI 210 12/14/2012 Religions are the Cause of War Most religions are not complex in their beliefs. There is a God and his angels or a hierarchy of deities to get to God. There is a heaven and a hell of sorts that the person will go to when they pass on. Most times this depends on how you treated your fellow man or what you did to show God how you felt about him. It’s a no brainer really, the whole “Do unto others as you have them do unto you” or a form of this is in every religion. Then let’s not forget the Messiah or Prophet. Every religion has one. The messiah/prophet was sent by God; a form of himself as human to save humanity from their evil ways. In some religions he was born of the virgin and in others he did not get his calling until he was older. They are more than life and do no wrong. They go throughout the world helping the poor. A Robin Hood if you will; who took from the rich to give to the poor. Religions are rooted and grounded in tradition and give people something to believe in. A “Higher Power”. The “Higher Power” gives a sense of direction. The church through religion gives guidance on how to live our lives and be better people. Regardless of religion or sect, the church brings people together for understanding of the religion and to pray. The church plays an important and is very influential role in the way people live or conduct their lives (Erwin, 2012). With most religions being around the same, the “same” meaning...
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...select two backbone configurations and discuss which one you think is the better option for networks of today. Indicate why you think that planning an enterprise-level backbone can be such a challenging process. I think before going into details, we should understand what is backbone. After a lot of research, I came up this definition; a backbone is a means of connecting two or more LANs. It provides a transmission channel for packets being transmitted from one LAN to another. After connection to a backbone, a LAN may remain distinct or be merged with another. Backbone networks can be applied to a single building environment as well as to campus environments, where the backbone is used to connect LANs in different buildings. Parallel backbone: I think parallel back is the best worth it for any company. The additional cost of setting up a parallel backbone can be well worth the money. The design of this type of backbone consists of using two cables routed between the routers and switches. While there are additional initial costs of installing a parallel backbone, the benefits can quickly outweigh these costs. However if company wants to save some money, they can use distribute network. It consists of a number of connectivity devices connected to a series of central connectivity devices, such as hubs, switches, or routers, in a hierarchy. This kind of topology allows for simple expansion and limited capital outlay for growth, because more layers of devices can be added...
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..."In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars." Richard M. Nixon. Many people believe that all war is caused by your religious beliefs but others disagree. One example is the Crusades. A crusade is a war fought on behalf of God. America uses this excuse all the time. The Crusades were a series of religious wars between Christians and Muslims started primarily to secure control of holy sites considered sacred by both groups. In all, eight major Crusade expeditions occurred between 1096 and 1291. The bloody, violent and often ruthless conflicts propelled the status of European Christians, making...
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...“Religion is the Cause of War“ Maher Khudari 1. What is your topic? Religion is the cause of war 2. What are the possibly different main claims/positions related to this topic? (There will be at least two (2) possibly different claims/positions, but there could be more; however, one of them will be YOUR claim/position.) Religion is the key for war, it’s the faith that people have to fight for. 3. What is your position regarding the topic? I believe that religion is causing war but not at all cases, For example Iraq war wasn’t one of the religion causing war, therefore I would like to replace the word religion to oil is the cause of war. 4. What “evidence” have you offered to support your claim/position? Have you included your survey results? • The Crusades: A series of campaigns from the 11th to the 13th centuries with the stated goal of reconquering the Holy Land from Muslim invaders and coming to the aid of the Byzantine Empire • The French Wars of Religion: A succession of wars in France during the 16th century between Catholics and the Protestant Hugenots • The Thirty Years' War — Another war between Catholics and Protestants during the 17th century in what is now Germany In addition to this, one could add the Taiping Rebellion and the never ending Catholic/Protestant struggles in Northern Ireland. Christianity has certainly been a factor in many conflicts throughout its 2000 year history. 5. Put your claim/position and “evidence” through...
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...Professor Ferguson English 30 July 12 Religion and War Since the dawn of time people have raged war. Many could argue that politics, power, or natural resources are the cause of war. But many people miss the underlying factor: Religion. Throughout history religion has been the prominent cause of wars. Religion has many conflicts in the history of the world. In ancient times civilizations believed that if they won a war it was because the gods favored them. The wars may have been over land or power but it was believed that it was their religion that won their victory. The bible says, "Some rely on chariots, others on horses, but we on the name of the Lord our God. They collapse and fall, But we stand strong and firm. Lord, grant victory to the king; Answer when we call upon you"(Psalm 20: 8-10). The key test is to see who wins. If God is really on your side, then you will win. One might face enormous odds against them, but this doesn't mean anything when God stands on one side. One of the major examples where religion caused war would be the Crusades. The Crusades were fought in the 11th century. The Crusades were a series of Holy Wars between Christian and Muslims, which was centered around the city of Jerusalem. In 1065 the Turks took Jerusalem and massacred 3,000 Christians starting a chain of events, which lead to the start of the Crusades. However, some researchers say that the massacre of the 3000 Christians which caused the crusades to begin and not because...
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...history, differences on religions, and fight for dominance power and land has been the main cause of war. The 30 years war, named after its length of war during 1618 to 1648 is the only war that was solely fought for religious reasons between European powers of that era. The thirty years was is considered a religious war because the growth increase in religious intolerance and religious rivalries which led to be the sole cause of the war but as the war progressed it became less about religion and more about territory and dynastic issues. Previous to the 30 years’ war the Holy Roman Empire was facing a large hold of its catholic followers; the church had begun to decline due to scandals inside of the church. In 1555 peace of Augsburg became recognized as the first treaty indicating that the leader of the Holy Roman Empire could determine the religion of its people it ruled , this was a tactic to reestablish and re enforce the catholic church and weaken the protestant and Lutheran church. This lead to the 30 years’ war, a time where political differences and fight for religious freedom where fought. During the time of the 30 years war, it faced four different stages during its time. This four eras of the war where the...
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...The Causes of War Summer Hansborough POL 300 004016 What causes opposition? Imperialism, nationalism, Social Darwinism, and militarism are causes of war, and I narrowed it down to the following; freedom, money, ideologies, race, religion and land. Although these are causes of war, in most cases, the ultimate cause of war is an elitist mentality. One believing their ideologies, race, policies and beliefs are superior to those that do not fit in or follow that particular system. What are the causes of war? An age old question that no one has yet to give a definitive answer. What is war? One definition explains war as an aggressively armed battle between conflicting people. Another definition explains war as fighting between nations, or groups in a nation, using weapons. To sum it all up, war is a condition of active animosity or contention and it is not exclusive to people. There are many kinds of war, such as is the war on drugs, the war on terrorism, political wars, and the war on AIDS. The war on AIDS is interesting, because it’s not a war apposing people, but a virus, a disease. According to the bible, our war is not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, wickedness and power in high places. (bible, 2005) A system, which is designed to bring order and uniformity, is an attribute to the causes of war. A system is vital to administer order to society. In the early days, before America established its own money system, America used...
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...mainly discuss the issue of Islamophobia, whether it is justified or not by the liberals. The article depicts how the author critiqued the trend against Islamic religion due to the terrorists and warfare in four ways. The author stated that the Islamic religion should not be blamed for violence just because of a few terrorists. All the religions have a similar history of violence, so that even a barbaric history could not be the reason to claim the whole religion is violent and evil. Otherwise, all the religions should be classified as inherently violent. Furthermore, the author stressed that there should be no distinguishment among different religions. The intrinsic value for all religions is similar, which is to give people belief. Neither the Catholicism nor the West is superior because the strong power of the western countries and desires to gain resources according to the author. The aim of the author is to point out the Islamophobia is not justified, and it accounts to the discrimination and racism towards Islam and Muslims. Similar views can be found in the debate, although the debate is more focused on the recent ISIS issue rather that the Iraq war. Ben Affleck holds the view that the terrorist activities should be only associated with few extremists in the religion, and it is nothing to do with the religion and most of its believers who are peaceful people. Nevertheless, Sam Harris stands on the different side by stating that the extreme are a larger part of the Muslims...
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...Religion and War Since the dawn of time people have raged war. Many could argue that politics, power, or natural resources are the cause of war. But many people miss the underlying factor: Religion. Throughout history religion has been the prominent cause of wars. Religion has many conflicts in the history of the world. In ancient times civilizations believed that if they won a war it was because the gods favored them. The wars may have been over land or power but it was believed that it was their religion that won their victory. The bible says, "Some rely on chariots, others on horses, but we on the name of the Lord our God. They collapse and fall, But we stand strong and firm. Lord, grant victory to the king; Answer when we call upon you"(Psalm 20: 8-10). The key test is to see who wins. If God is really on your side, then you will win. One might face enormous odds against them, but this doesn't mean anything when God stands on one side. One of the major examples where religion caused war would be the Crusades. The Crusades were fought in the 11th century. The Crusades were a series of Holy Wars between Christian and Muslims, which was centered around the city of Jerusalem. In 1065 the Turks took Jerusalem and massacred 3,000 Christians starting a chain of events, which lead to the start of the Crusades. However, some researchers say that the massacre of the 3000 Christians which caused the crusades to begin and not because of differing religious beliefs. The Crusades...
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...understand civilizations got to where we are today. The third reason is to learn about what causes conflicts and wars so we can help identify when they might be occurring. We should preserve history so we don’t make the same mistakes we did in the past. Things would not reoccur in the future if we knew what happened in history we would know how to prevent things from happening again. We would see signs that happened in the past and we will know how to keep more things from happening. More wars have and will be prevented because of history, inventions will be improved, and sickness will be cured because we know what happens if you do a certain thing. The next reason is so we will know how civilizations got to where we are today. If we didn’t have history we would not know what works best for civilizations. History helps us learn how laws we created; if we did not have laws the world would be chaos. Laws are sometimes based on religion. Religions are also very important in history. Religion is what a human believes how they got here, why they are here, and where they are going. Everyone has a religion whether you admit it or not, every civilization has one or many dominate religion like Americas dominate religion is Christianity. The last reason is to learn about the causes of war. Most of history learned in school is history about war and it is very important, it teaches us about war and what causes it, how it happened and how to end it. If we did not know about what has happened in...
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...#3 War and Religion The history of human warfare goes back to the beginning of recorded history. Wars have been fought over Power, space, resources, personal preference, insults, to defend, racism, independence, and religion. People can be pretty passionate about their religious beliefs. So, it is not surprising that at least a few famous wars have resulted from disagreements about religion. Atheists say that most wars are fought over religion and without religion clouding the minds of individuals that most if not all wars would be eradicated from world. “John Lennon” sings in one of his songs “Imagine no religion” implying that without religion no wars would be fought. So how can all these “atheist” and political figures think that a majority of wars are fought over religion? I in fact think the opposite and would like to share some of my ideas with you. If wars were fought mainly over religion than history has deceived us. A recent comprehensive compilation of the history of human warfare, “Encyclopedia of Wars” by Charles Phillips and Alan Axelrod documents 1763 wars, of which 123 have been classified to involve a religious conflict. So, what atheists have considered being "most" really amounts to less than 7% of all wars. It is interesting to note that 66 of these wars (more than 50%) involved Islam, which did not even exist as a religion for the first 3,000 years of recorded human warfare. These numbers show a staggering truth in the matter that most wars are...
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...Effects of Religion Jeremy Nabors 10/19/2014 Religion can be a positive thing since it can bring people of all races, nationalities, and even cultures together in a community. While this is not necessarily the case in every community, religion certainly has the potential to bring people who are appear different from other together, allowing them to share a common belief and sense of fellowship. This helps them feel as if they united together in some form. This unity can really move mountains if all parts of the “body” so to speak work together. This action of getting things done together gives people the sense that they have truly made a difference in life and encourages them to continually perform positively for their community and for those outside of their community. Coming together under the banner of religion can give groups and communities of people something to believe in and can provide them with a meaning for life and a sense of purpose. Religion sadly can have a negative impact as well. Religion seems to be the basis behind many wars in our history and in our time. It is a mystery whether many wars were truly based on religion and why some wars today are fought over the differences of religious groups, but the number of wars that have evidently been started because of religion is staggering, and it is possible that many people choose to avoid religions for this very fact. Also, many people do not like confrontation. If one were to follow a certain religion...
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...Throughout history there is evidence to indicate that many wars were in some way caused or influenced by one religious belief. This can be dated by through the Holy Bible in the Book of Joshua when the conquest of the Canaan’s by the Israelites took place. There is also evidence found in the Christian Crusades in the 12th century. As you will see throughout this analysis there are many different historic examples of when ones beliefs have caused conflicts between groups or countries. The simple answer to the question, “Are their wars that have been caused by religion?” is yes. Religion is a way that people understood their world in early times. It was a legitimate political authority; it facilitated order by establishing the codes of right...
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...It would be easy to argue the point that the new atheists, who claim that religion is wrong and antiquated and that those who put their faith into religion are deluded, do not actually know much about the religions that they declaim. Indeed, it seems that they have less against religion in general and more against fanaticism. It should not be assumed that all of religion should account for the actions of a few. It is something in the pattern of sins of the father, something that I have long found objectionable. Affiliation with someone who has made bad decisions should not really affect the way that one is viewed, but it cannot be denied that it often does. If a person’s father kills someone, people will know and will talk about it, and that...
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...Religion and Society Though, when a society is thought about it’s usually about the government, population, schools, and the people who live there. Religion is not usually the first thing on a mind of a person looking at a society or how that society is affected by the religion the country worships. Studies have shown that a secular nation, or a nation with a higher population of atheists than religious peoples have resulted in being a more peaceful nation. However, it has been said that a religious nation has higher rates of murder, teen pregnancy, abortion, sexual promiscuity and war. The things just listed are things that religious nations try so hard to prove are sin. If a religious nation says these things are a sin, then why do they have higher numbers of the societal ills than a nation with a higher number of Atheists? Religion may play a role in peoples’ lives, but religion should not be a part of our growing modern society. In 2009, the Global Peace Index did a study that compares our worlds countries by using six different sections concluding which countries are the most peaceful to the least peaceful. The sections of this study are: foreign war, internal conflicts, human rights, murders, prison population, and democracy. When the study came out, it was said that New Zealand was considered the most peaceful nation of our world. New Zealand is a mostly secular nation and the study shows that is why New Zealand is rated number one in the Global Peace Index’s study...
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