I think the emphasis on belief in the study of religion can be problematic because sometimes certain miracles happen that defy the laws of science, and people can question why certain rituals are performed. Also, one’s beliefs can cloud our judgment and can cause the mind to be closed to…

Before this lesson, I was not too familiar with the World religions outside of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. But on the surface, although they make up the majority of the global population and society. A lot of places in the world are heavily influenced by these major world religions, like some governments being theocratic. Although here in the United States we are not a theocracy, a lot of our values and society itself are heavily influenced by Christianity. For instance, the majority of laws in this country have had some outside religious influence, like abortion. #IntroRelUH

I have always been aware of how other religions outside of Christianity have sacred holidays, however, I was unaware of an entire population of people who seemed to be ignored when it comes to these practices. Often Christians are burdened with superfluous obligations with the church such as church anniversaries…

Religious studies goes a lot deeper than I initially expected, I expected to learn about christianity, buddhism, catholicism and all the religions. I expected to learn about them individually and how they intersect but this study goes beyond the religion and more in depth to how they affect us. I love that we learn about religions in all parts of the world and not just the US. Today my preparation was to stay in the my living room till I finished all my work for at least one of my classes and that motivated me to do the same for the rest of my classes. Staying in my room turned out to not work as well so i’m trying to break that habit.