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     Audio
     Video
     How are you today?

     With patience and


    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?

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