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This paper discusses both the positive aspects of religion and the negative ones. The conflict between Christianity and Islam is referenced extensively. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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religious teachings of one culture conflicted with those of another. The intent of this paper is to explore both the pros and cons of religion. A particular emphasis
will be placed on the problems that we are seeing in contemporary society when religions come into conflict with one another, problems that in fact date back to ancient times.
Religion serves a wide variety of purposes in society. One of the most important of these is the provision of a greater
human purpose and ethics of being. Through belief in religion individuals are given both explanation and goals by which they can gauge their lives and those of others.
Religion gives ultimate purpose. Religion both shapes our morals and enforces them. Smedes (1987, 54) clarifies that as humans we have an underlying awareness of morality being interwoven into
our very existence that "Morality is a basic component of any human sort of life, a reality we feel surely even if we cannot define it clearly". Smedes (1987,
vii) assures us that there is a God and that our moral behavior assures that we are "in harmony with Gods design for our humanity". While
religion can function to challenge and change prevalent social beliefs, it must also be remembered that religion is an evolutionary phenomena, that is it changes just as social beliefs change.
Religion could, in fact, be said to function as a mirror which not only reflects predominant social beliefs but also which supports them. This contention is evidenced throughout
history. The fact that religion functions as a mirror for prevalent social beliefs can also be supported with a number of contemporary observations. This is particularly true when
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