The Importance Of Religion In This Believing World: The Believing World

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Matthew Coutu
Professor Schofer
English 1101
18 August 2015

“What is it, this thing we call Religion? Whence did it come? And why? And how? What was it yesterday? What is it today? And what will it become tomorrow?” the writer, philosopher, and rabbi, Lewis Browne asked in his 1926 work, “This Believing World.”
Since the beginning of time, individuals from all over the world have wondered these questions in addition to many others. With millions of questions to ponder, there are yet an infinite amount of answers that pertain to faith. Though nobody is positive which religion is correct (or if any are, for that matter), having a belief is comforting to most. This being the case, because it is restful to the masses knowing that they have somebody always watching over them, with their best interests at heart. …show more content…

Over time, religion was seen as a choice, and from then on, was generated into an identity to most humans; one that was able to provide a path on which to follow, and a set of rules on which to base their lives. It created communities, and then separate factions were born from those communities. Religion was seen as a necessary threshold for thousands of years to keep order, in addition to provide remedies for the grueling questions that were not able to be answered by mortals alone. On the contrary, not all faiths were perceived as equal, and those that were known to be minority, were seen as corrupt and taboo. These lesser known beliefs are today known as cults. A religion is defined by the Open Education Sociology Dictionary as “a personal or institutional system of beliefs, practices, and values relating to the cosmos and

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