Religion as an Important Source of Moral Values in Contemporary Societies

Religion as an Important Source of Moral Values in Contemporary Societies

Over the past century there has been a great differ in the views of

the people of how people see religion and how important and how

influential it is to our modern contemporary societies today.

Too a large extent in our infrastructure today religion does play a

vital part in how society runs. Religion especially helps integration

between people. Before the industrial revolution quite a vast

population would integrate with each other through church services and

would socialise through that agency. Even in contemporary societies

such activities take place for example in the Gurdwara there are youth

clubs and clubs for the elderly whereby people can get to know each

other.

Religion also teaches us how to behave and acts as a unconscious

policing action. Using Sikhism again as an example religion teaches us

that they should cover their head before praying to whom they worship

and not eating meat. However this has slightly changed from past times

as people do eat meat however the vast majority are vegetarian.

Funeral ceremonies also involve religion when it comes to the

mourning. This helps the family of the loved one who has passed away

as the ceremony allows the family to regain strength and acceptance

and a reason to carry on with their own lives.

Another key time when religion seems to have an impact is when it hits

war time. People and soldiers pray to retrieve metaphoric strength and

confidence. It also provides answers that don’t get answered and also

brings about questions that were never there before. It justifies

reasons to kill. Such recent inc...

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...Feminists also argued their point. Feminists found that they were

treated with less respect because of religion. They argue that

religion promotes patriarchy within society. They feel they are

oppressed by the male figure within society. Fundamentalists in Iraq

Al- Quaeda made women cover them selves up and to stay within the

household and turn back to traditional views or otherwise were killed.

Overall as in the introduction mentioned there is a vast opinion on

how important religion is in modern society today. It can be said that

yes religion is of very high importance as it is one of the main

agencies in contemporary society that form the base of our

infrastructure, but it can also be said that religion is no longer

important as it used to be as science has proofed to answer just as

many questions as religion has.