Dobson's Argument Analysis

Although, a lot of secular humanists and other types of non believers or individual spiritualists like, atheists, agnostics, and freethinkers knowingly avoid calling themselves religious or claim a religious association even if they may consider themselves to be a part of a "morally intense community" of non-theists. There is no clear reason as to why people choose to be "non believers" some do because some traumatic event happened and they wonder if there is some sort of God then why did he let this bad thing happen to them. Some are one of those people that have to believe it to see it. There is no clear explanation to this, but those may be some reasons as to why. People are religiously polarizing between Christianity and Islam because one is seen as good and the other is see as bad.

Christianity is scripturally locked into the concept that God views homosexuality as an abomination. There are many verses in both the Old and New Testament confirming this point. If the churches accept homosexuality as an authentic alternative lifestyle, it would be an admission that the scriptures are wrong. However, to hold fast on this issue will further alienate the growing tide of people, most notably the young, who view it as a matter of equality.

Ethics • The first ethical red flag that went up as I was reading scenario 2 was the “Do No Harm.” Instead of embracing this person with the love of Christ, the counsel refuses to see him, due to his religious beliefs, claiming that he is a Christian counselor and that the client is not a Christian. Which could also be interpreted as discrimination. • The counselor acted unethical when he judged the man by his denomination and refused service to him.

“Do not gloat when your enemy falls; when they stumble, do not let your heart rejoice, or the Lord will see and disapprove and turn his wrath away from them” (Proverbs 24:17-19, NIV). How do you as a Christian balance the competitive spirit with Scripture that tells us not to rejoice when we see our opponent fall? To answer the question, “How do I as a Christian balance the competitive spirit with Scripture that tells me not to rejoice when I see my opponent fall?” After pondering this question, I must admit that I have been guilty when hearing that something may have happened to someone who has done spiteful things towards me and I must admit that I have been guilty of rejoicing in their downfall.

Oscar Wilde said “selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.” That said, the Puritans were a very religious group of people who wished to escape religious persecution in order to spread their beliefs to others. Their hatred and enmity of both the church was so great they could no longer stay in England. In their point of view, there was nothing wrong with what they did at all. Their reason for leaving was religious freedom, but their way of thinking was mean and inconsiderate.

(Muehlenberg, 2013) The Islamic world view does not acknowledge the Holy Spirit and Muhammad is regarded by some Muslims as the consoler or counsellor, which Isa promised in the Bible book of John 14:16.Therefore it is clear that the Islamic faith does not recognize the Trinity like the Christian world view. They believe that Allah is one and to worship any person other than Allah is godless, infidel’s, irreligious and unjustifiable. (Muehlenberg, 2013) The Christian world view or faith worship God, the Holy Spirit and Jesus Christ.

Although there are many people may not think the same as me, but eye for an eye is not a good tool to determine a punishment. The biggest reason is that the bible says not to. The next reasons is two wrongs do not make a right. Two wrongs do not make a right. First and foremost

My goal is to describe the ethical theories from which I based my approach, and to support my position by explaining and applying those theories to the marriage and cohabitation issue of sexuality and sexual immorality. My position is that cohabitation has a prima facie appearance of being a marriage; however, its appearance alone does not make it a marriage. Therefore, anything that falsely attempts to imitate something else is a lie, which is a sin and betrayal against God. As such, Christians should refrain from engaging in or even supporting the practice of cohabitation.

Edwards makes the claim that typically showing too high of an affection would speak to it being false, however with love things are a little more complicated. “But will any Christian say, men ought not to love God and Jesus Christ in a high degree” (150)? Next, he looks at the effects of affections on the body (one’s actions), the way one speaks about their faith, the strength of one’s spirit, and finally on one’s knowledge of scripture. Through these, he asserts that none of these filters, so to speak, serve as a way to effectively judge one’s true faith (152-153).

Aikman (2008) refers to Atheism as a cause of uncertainty and violence in the world of faith. It only disturbs the concrete beliefs of Christians to the supremacy of God. With unseen motives, Atheism became a source of development of hesitations that break the connection of God and man. People became more aggressive because they do not worry on the possible consequences of their wrongdoings and the sins they commit. Atheism brings about the existence of evil and suffering.

No,George is not justified in the shooting of Lennie, According to the Religion, Law, and Premeditation. First, George is not justified due to Religion. In the bible it says hate is murder and whoever hate will not have eternal life. Others may say they don’t read the bible.

Anyone physically different from themselves, the people of Waknuk regard as “abominations” and insulting to the pure image of God based on a fallible old book; Nicholson’s Repentances. Likewise, anyone of a different religious sect, Daesh slaughters with out of context rulings from their religious book. The KKK discriminates against people of colour, regarding them in a very similar way to the way the people of Waknuk regard Deviations. Moreover, calling the Old People’s society (probably secular) a state of “[prevailing] irreligious arrogance” displays their belief that only one way of being is acceptable, and anything else is worthy of punishment (Wyndham 40).

The church’s unwillingness to involve themselves in the conversation and active efforts to cease AIDS’ increasing stake on lives, fails to live up to their roles as empathetic followers of Christ. However, much of this hesitance stems from the Bible’s direct claims that condemn homosexuality and those living in what the church deems a “sinful” life, whom God punishes with sickness, poverty, and ultimate suffering, as this only justifies this inactiveness. The church fails to save lives as much as it claims to save souls in an institution that historically prides itself in combatting oppression and restoring justice, especially from the African American church, although seeming to fail in restoring dignity. “If God’s relationship with humanity is persuasive, that characteristic should be the model for our own interpersonal relationships” because lives should not be lost from lack of intervention, resulting from the church’s condemnation of participating in intense and joyous activities, like sex and drug use, subjecting many of these followers to hypocrisy (Shelp and Sunderland 74). Sexually explicit education should have been enforced in a society where religious conservatism creates a barrier in combatting the spread of this disease, a disease like any other disease.

This results in a bad attitude toward authority. Having placed my faith in Christ, I understand that this is not true. Sin is in all humans very nature (Galatians

They believed that the law was unconstitutionally prohibiting its members from following their right to freely practice their religion, ergo they decidedly ignored the Morrill Anti-Bigamy Act. After a while, whilst efforts were being made at the same time to indict the church’s heads for bigamy, the First Presidency came to an agreement to create a test case to be brought to the united States Supreme Court in order to determine how constitutional the anti-bigamy law was. Reynolds was approached to be this test defendant and provide the attorney with numerous witnesses that could confirm his act of bigamy. The case was, in a brief summary, a decision as to whether or not polygamy could be allowed or dismissed if one was filling their “religious duty.” The ruling was that religious beliefs are not supposed to be governed, as the government reaches actions, not opinions.