The document discusses the positive and negative effects of religion, noting positive effects like providing meaning, community, and moral guidance, while negative effects include promoting tribalism, anchoring believers to outdated beliefs, and religions sometimes seeking power. It also discusses the benefits of interreligious dialogue in building understanding between religious groups and promoting religion's positive effects.
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The document discusses the positive and negative effects of religion, noting positive effects like providing meaning, community, and moral guidance, while negative effects include promoting tribalism, anchoring believers to outdated beliefs, and religions sometimes seeking power. It also discusses the benefits of interreligious dialogue in building understanding between religious groups and promoting religion's positive effects.
The document discusses the positive and negative effects of religion, noting positive effects like providing meaning, community, and moral guidance, while negative effects include promoting tribalism, anchoring believers to outdated beliefs, and religions sometimes seeking power. It also discusses the benefits of interreligious dialogue in building understanding between religious groups and promoting religion's positive effects.
gratitude, let’s pause for a while to thank the Lord for His goodness. RELIGION – ITS POSITIVE and NEGATIVE EFFECTS OBJECTIVES Identifymajor events in history that were brought about by religion Analyse how these events have led to both human flourishing and human disaster Discuss the role of Interreligious Dialogue in promoting the positive effects and mitigating the negative effects of religion on human existence. . Homework Go to Hurtado and access reading material for our next topic JUDAISM. Jot down important details for an insightful sharing/discussion Tell me about your personal experience of the positive and negative effects of religion. REFLECT ON THIS STATEMENT
“Religion always makes you a better person”
If you agree, justify your answer and
if you don’t, why? POSITIVE VS. NEGATIVE Positive effects of Religion It gives Meaning, Purpose and Hope, based on the beliefs and values, often expressed in myths and stories It allows community gathering for rituals of worship and symbolic celebrations of religious holidays. Positive effects of Religion It gives personal identity as part of a group with similar world views, beliefs, values, practices and lifestyles, relationships of commitment to giving support and caring critique to one another. It provides opportunities in community to identify and provide needed action and service to meet needs of the wider community and the world It creates rituals and practices experienced in community for life transitions of birth, commitment, forgiveness, and death. It provides private rituals that support identity, calmness, stability, and hope It gives educational opportunities providing history and understanding of religious and cultural traditions.
It provides guidance for living in "right
relationship" :
a) with other persons (respect and caring
for the "out-group" as well as the "in- group)
b) with the natural world identification of
personal, cultural and environmental needs which inspire concern and motivate responses of outreach and service. Negative Effects of Religion Religion promotes tribalism, Infidels, heathen, heretic. Religion divides insiders from outsiders. Religion anchors believers to the Iron Age Putting a god’s name and endorsement on some of the very worst human impulses. Any believer looking to excuse his own temper, sense of superiority, warmongering, bigotry, or planetary destruction can find validation in writings that claim to be authored by God. To stay strong, religion trains believers to practice self-deception, shut out contradictory evidence, and trust authorities rather than their own capacity to think Religion teaches helplessness. Que sera, sera— what will be will be. Let go and let God Religions seek power Watch the video in our course space
Answer the following questions;
1. What is the benefit of engaging into interreligious or interfaith dialogue? 2. How will it help in nation building a diverse community like we have today? What is Interreligious Dialogue? is understood as ‘an encounter where people holding different claims about ultimate reality can meet and explore these claims in a context of mutual respect.
In this respect dialogue is an act of non-othering the
others but of recognizing the others and their faith convictions. Action-Performance Go to our Hurtado course space Click Session 3: Positive and Negative Effects of religion At the bottom of the session portal click the Formative Assessment link. Submit your output in a Word Doc format. Make sure to SAVE a copy. Synthesis
How can we ‘harness’ religion in such a way that its
positive elements can be brought to light? In the same way, how are we harnessed by our respective religions that our positive qualities will be brought to light?