Religion Reviews

At 5pm on Easter Saturday 2001 a healthy crowd has gathered around the entrance to the Vatican. Most of them are taking photos and chatting animatedly whilst others are taking the opportunity to buy a couple of plastic rosaries and an imitation mitre. A young American informs us that the excitement is due to people awaiting the start of ...

I've just read and replied to an email from Graham (lol, yes, thanks Graham, you've given me inspiration to write an opinion about religion!). So, here I am.... me, a not-very-religious person writing an opinion about, yes, religion! What am I doing here then? Well thats a damn good question! In comparison to ...

I write this opinion with the intention of it being thought provoking, not only for you as the reader but also for me as the writer. You see I do not fully understand my own views on religion and hope that by writing this I may clarify my own thoughts and ideas. I wouldn’t consider myself to be a religious person, I don’t go ...

Today in modern society humans will walk on all different paths of life. We are aware of each other and our position in the cycle of life. The world has so many cultures, races, varieties and mixtures to it that it is amazing how many different designs of life there are, how could these have come in to place? With so many ...

For many years I was a member of The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter Day Saints, better known as the Mormons. This was not a choice I made for myself, as in most cases I was forced to join because my whole family were members. Whilst I was in the church I was oblivious to the outside world in every way, the mormons see this as a good thing for ...

My mother is Jewish and my father is a Christian by birth. When my sister and myself came along they decided not to force any religion on us and leave us to make our own minds up if we wanted to follow any religion, if at all. This was because it had caused so many problems in their own lives. My mothers parents are Czech and came here as refugees ...

Let’s listen in to a conversation described by E. M. Foster in his novel Passage to India, published in 1924. (A young English woman has travelled with her future mother-in-law to India to meet her fiancé. They wait for him in the English club.) ‘I’ve scarcely spoken to an Indian since landing.’ ...

Just as poor and ignorant people in the housing estates interpret religion to their hates,it has to be said of the same in Britain’s equally dumb small section of Muslims will dilute the anachronistic ambiguous text to their anger and angst. Like most people in the UK, I have a good friend who is a Muslim.She is not devout because ...

I recently attended a wedding, where in the course of a long, rather smug and uninspiring sermon, the priest said with a smile that he could think of no greater privilege than having been brought up in a Christian family environment. Which I disagreed with, because, coming from such an environment, I finally object to having an organised group ...

An enormous turd plummets down from heaven and crashes through the ceiling of a cathedral. A set of stone steps in a garden descend to a wooden door which opens onto a dark cavern that houses an enormous phallus that the boy who stands before knows to be Jesus. Blasphemy? No, two dreams of the young Jung that lead him to effectively ...

Jesus performs many miracles in Mark’s Gospel; all of these miracles took place because of that person’s faith in Jesus. In this assignment I will show how faith, prayer and commitment are all connected and what their importance are in our learning and understanding of Jesus and his teachings. Although Mark’s Gospel was ...

Religion has caused more problems in the world than anything else - Advantages: none - Disadvantages: seperates people into factions, Causes wars

God is seen as an icon, something to hold onto when times are rough, a faith to believe in. Personally I don't believe in god, how could disasters such as 'World Trade Centre' occur if God did exist, where was he then? on Annual Leave? apparently I'll get struck by lightening after saying that! I know that this opinion ...

In the middle ages, ‘heretic’ Jews and Muslims were tortured and persecuted for failing to adhere to the Catholic faith. Christian charity gave way to inhuman fanaticism. Religion was used as a means of demonstrating power over individuals whose beliefs differed from those of the establishment. The same fanaticism is rife ...

I don't think that belief in God by any of the names he is known by, or any other being that people may chose to believe in is a bad thing. I do think that religion is a very bad thing. If you look back at so many of the conflicts within history and the suffering of people, at least within the western world, much of it has a root in religion. ...

This is all about my faith. I am not about to evangelize and bring “lost sheep” to the flock or anything. But I firmly believe that you can learn a lot of lessons here about life and living even if you continue to be an atheist. If you don’t want to read about miracles, you can skip the next 3 paragraphs and get to the practical ...

Women and religion This subject both fascinates and perplexes me. I would like to know why, from the year dot, do women seem to have been given such a bad time in religion? Why the special restrictions? The women must not do this or must do this? Examples follow. The Bible says in Corinthians/ Eph/1st Peter that ‘the head ...

Eep. An opinion on religion - what was I thinking? This is the first time I write in the Speakers Corner, so bear with me if I confuzzle myself over my thoughts :) I have read most of the opinions on religion here, and it seemed to me that many people still equalize religion with Christianity. Not much of a surprise really, after ...

************ Please read, this op takes a while to get started, thankyou for your patience. ************ If you don't believe that a certain mister Charles Darwin was a total tit, then you'll probably subscribe to his theory of evolution, which goes a little something like this. To start with there was slime, and ...

Eeeeek! Gosh this is a hard one. I used to be religious, very much so and it kept me out of trouble for a good few years. I left my religion due to realising that I didn't actually agree with everything set forth in my particular faith and I have to say I am not missing it and really enjoying meself doing things I was formally not allowed to ...