The inherent beauty and necessity that is religion
Religion plays a necessary role in society and politics by providing a moral benchmark and bringing purpose and glee to an otherwise ignorant and evil society.
Everyone is always looking for something: to be a better person, make a difference or a sense of happiness.
There is an inherent need in humans to look to something higher and greater than us to fulfill whatever void holds our lives, whether that higher power may be. Money, government, power or God.
There is an inherent beauty in all religion, as it brings meaning to a seemingly devoid life. When we are born, we are nothing more than a small being with no power, future and meaning. Just a body.
The inherent beauty and necessity that is religion
But what is life without meaning? Humans have 100 years, possibly, to make use of our body, and religion gives us a chance to make our life worth living.
You see, the necessity of religion is that no matter what you’re looking for, it fills you up. Religion makes life better.
If you’re looking to be a better person, you find a reason to be a better person, you find a way to be a better person. If you’re looking to make a difference, you find a way to make a difference through service or helping others find a better life. If you’re looking for happiness, religion is there to give you something to believe, to be happy about.
The inherent beauty and necessity that is religion
Even at your times when you’re most down, religion is there.
Religion helps guide society, and the individuals in that society, to something greater. To best understand this, George Washington once said, “Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.”
If we trust in the government and society to make what is legal or moral, we come to the point of societal downfall. We no longer have a benchmark to look towards.
The inherent beauty and necessity that is religion
The world is a dark and dangerous place — just look at news in the past month. As we scour the earth to find a sliver of meaning that made all the suffering worth it, religion gives us a reason to keep travelling through the darkest of nights.
Find meaning, find religion.
The importance of religion in the development of our
societies today and tomorrow
The inherent beauty and necessity that is religion
It is a privilege and an honor to be here with you today to try to give some
contributions to this discussion that deals about promoting humanity and
transforming the World from a Catholic profile. As it was announced, my talk
will be focused on the importance of religion in the development of our
societies.
Human beings live under a kind of illusion about time. I think that, along history,
mankind has constantly repeated the same sentence “we live in an
unprecedented historical moment”. But I wonder, if all times have been
unprecedented, does the Bible fail in Ecclesiastes, when it teaches us that there
is nothing new under the Sun?
The truth is that this time is our time, for better or for worse. No one from the
past or the future will live it for us. To live in the present time we need to
understand this question: How is our world when it comes to religion?
Let’s start with statistics. We all know that surveys are fallible and unreliable,
and this is especially true when the deal with religion, due mostly to conceptual
issues (what is religion?), to the kind of questions asked or to the population
target surveyed. Notwithstanding the foregoing, surveys offer some hints or
clues about religion in the world nowadays. According to a recent Gallup
International poll published in April 2017, 62% of people in the world define
themselves as religious, 74% of people globally believe we have a soul and 71%
believe in God; while 56% believe in heaven, 54% in life after death and 49% in
hell1
.
Simultaneously, a report conducted by Pew Forum reveals that the new home
of Christianity is America and Africa, not the Middle East and Europe. Two
examples of this: Brazil has more than twice as many Catholics as Italy and
Nigeria now has more than twice as many Protestants (broadly defined to
1 Gallup International, Religion Prevails in the World, 2017, accessed 21 November 2017, in http://gallupinternational.bg/en/Publications/2017/373-Religion-prevails-in-the-world.
1
include Anglicans and independent churches) as Germany, the birthplace of the
Protestant Reformation2
.
It is a commonplace that Western civilization in general and Europe in particular
are experiencing a process of secularization. Secularization is a complex
phenomenon in which many constituents meet, like institutional affiliation to
churches, worship attendance, beliefs, cultural belonging, moral behavior,
institutional dimension, etc. In recent times, sociologists have distinguished
different groups related to their religious beliefs:
- those who belong to churches or religious groups;
- those who declare themselves spiritual, but do not belong to churches
or religious groups;
- those who believe in religion, but do not attend religious worship
regularly (believing without belonging)3
;
- those who do not believe in religion but stem in high value the cultural ,
moral and social role of religion (belonging without believing)4
;
- and those indifferent or hostile to religion or spirituality.
These different groups may interact in different ways. Spiritual and religious
may coincide in the same people5
. And non-believers may feel the social or
institutional role of the Church more intensely than many religious people. In
several cases, these groups are not watertight compartments and they show
the complexity of measuring the significance of secularization.
In any respect, the figures contradict the plain conclusion of Europe as a
secularized continent: in a 2015 survey, the Eurobarometer concludes that the
percentage of Christians in the EU countries is currently 72% (45% Catholic,
11% Protestant, 10% Orthodox, 6% others)
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