Essays about Religion Page 3

The setting of The Crucible is Salem, Massachusetts in 1692; specifically at the height of the Salem Witch Trials. Salem, a colony in 17th century colonial Massachusetts, was originally part of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the largest and most economically important of all the early colonies in New England. Eventually, it evolved into the larger…

Joseph Smith founded the Mormons other wise know as Latter-day Saints in 1830 at Fayette, N.Y. Joseph Smith was born in 1805 and died in 1844. As a child he went through many hardships and poverty on a rough frontier. He had documented later in his life that he had seen visions when he was…

Mormonism began in a cauldron of religious excitement. The Pennsylvanians, eastern New Yorkers, and Yankees who left the rocky soil, rigid society, and lack of opportunity of the New England hill country in the 1790s to settle west of the Catskill and Adirondack mountains were mostly young, disillusioned with their previous economic and spiritual life,…

Over the past century, Mormonism has evolved to be known around the world. From the missionary’s knocking on every door to being able to find famous plays being made about the religion, and over 158 operating temples today Mormons have become a household name. But how exactly did they become so famous a little over…

Mormonism, one of America’s strongest and most influential religions, was not always popular with the people. Joseph Smith was the leader of the Church of Jesus Christ and the Latter Day Saints, and the leader of the Mormon, faith. Through all the scapegoating and violence, Mormons were forced out of countless states, and were prosecuted…

Anson Shupe and John Heinerman. The Mormon Corporate Empire. Boston: Beacon Press, 1985. The discussion of the Church Security Program in this book is under a heading titled “The Myth of Mormon Welfare.” This is of the bat giving the reader a bias of not believing in the Welfare Program installed by the church, and…

Plato once stated that thinking is “the talking of the soul with itself.’ As a great philosopher, Plato has intrigued the minds of many people through his view on the soul as a living thing. He believes that the soul is immortal and lives on forever throughout each life. Although there are many ideas about…

Religion should be used as a tool for self-improvement in humans rather than something that limits life experiences. The 19th century, German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche had very notable things to say about Christianity: “I call Christianity the one great curse, the one intrinsic depravity… In the entire New Testament, there is only person worth respecting:…

Death occurs when a person’s heart stops beating. Their brain shuts down, they stop breathing, and all life process ceases. Death is the final state of life, at least medically. The principal proposition of what occurs after death is explained through different religious beliefs, all in vast reasoning across thousands of years of ancient texts…

Most people, when looking for the will of God in their life, look for a magical moment to be called by the Lord to do anything for His work. This is the wrong approach when looking for God’s will, especially with mission work. Most of the time when people look for a magical or emotional…