Reflection Paper About Religion

Entry #1:

Before taking this religion course, religion has been just a word that at quick glance seems very easy to define, but with further investigation, requires more thoughtful exploration. The term, religion, is very hard to define. One of the reasons why it is hard to define is because there are many different religions throughout the entire world which results in numerous different scenarios that we must consider when trying to define religion. Another reason why it is hard to define is that each religion is different from one another. Each religion is unique in its own ways such as its beliefs and practices. The beliefs or practices of one religion can conflict with another religion. I think it is very difficult to try to define religion because we do not want to offend someone else’s religion with our definitions of religion. Due to these reasons, defining religion is a real issue in our society today. People especially scholars are scared to define religion because they fear they don’t know about every religion in the world. Also, it is hard to come up with a definition that can satisfy all the religions in the entire world. In general, people fear what they do not know about including myself. For instance, people get scared or nervous before an exam, especially the first exam of a class. Religion tries to describe the types of things that we don’t really know much about. People are either too scared or careless to listen to other people’s views about their