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 * Cahill, Michael. "The Dead Should Be Buried." Disposal of the Dead. Diane Andrews **
 * Henning Feld. Detroit: Green haven Press, 2009. At Issue. Rpt. from "Don't Bury Death: A Catholic Argument Against Cremation." U.S. Catholic (Dec. 2006). Opposing Viewpoints in Context. Web. 4 Feb. 2014. **
 * Summary: Religion, Catholic church believed the human soul is immortal, and the body will be resurrected when Christ return. Back in late centuries, many Religion used to destroy the body instead of bury the dead because it indicated a lack of faith in the physical resurrection of the body. For this reason burn the dead body was not allow to Catholic until 1963. Even though the Catholic allow to burn the dead body but it reminds that ,burn the dead body does not enjoy the same value as burial of the body. Catholic believe that the body is sacred which mean the body connect to God. When someone died the body should be present at the funeral and buried with respect. While it's true that burn the dead body is part of religious in other religion but it's not Catholic tradition. However there maybe some reason to burn the dead body such as cost, and the environmental impact of burial. For some situations in life, it is certainly appropriate to go cheap and save some money especially in hard economic times. Cremation, is cheaper and are becoming more common. According to Catholic, We are after all, a sacramental church, and what better sign of our belief in the resurrection of the body than our preparation, physical and spiritual, of that body to meet the Lord. There are a lot of messages about the importance of our bodies in the culture today, our body is the temple of the Holy Spirit. In my opinion that means God living in us so we have to take care of our body. **
 * __Analysis__ this would help me a lot in the research paper because it tells how the human body is important. The difference between the bury the dead and burn the dead body. **
 *  The first phrase, "the care taken to prepare the bodies," has to do with us, the living; while the second, "the sacredness of the human body and the resurrection of the dead," has to do with the dead. **
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 * Zacharias, Ravi. "Why Are There so Many Religions? Do All Religions Lead to God?" GotQuestions.org. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 Feb. 2014. **
 * __Summary:__  This article suggest the reason we have many Religion. According to the article ,Many people do not want to believe in a God who demands a good quality or justifiable and morality, so they invent a God who makes no such requirements. And a God who can tell them it’s impossible to earn their own way to heaven. That means getting to heaven isn’t a simply of having the right belief, but do the right thing and do what God wills. A person who declare belief in Jesus as Lord but do not follow his commandments really isn’t a follower of Christ .For that reason they invent a God who accepts people into heaven if they have completed certain steps, followed certain rules, and obeyed certain laws for the best of their ability. Many people do not want a relationship with a God who is a supreme ruler, so they imagine God as being more of a mystical force,because they want to know God directly, rather than a personal and supreme ruler. Many Religion lead to demonstration of humanity's rejection of the one true God. According to the Article the desire to recreate God in our own image is dangerous. But all Religion lead to God as long as you love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind, and love your neighbor as yourself. No matter what religion you are in, everyone will meet God after death Hebrews 9:27. And only one religion will result in God's acceptance, because only through His salvation through faith in Jesus Christ can anyone approach Him with confidence. **
 * __Analysis__  this article will help me to talk about how many Religion, the things I've seen in some churches, the thing they do and how they worship. **
 * The existence of so many religions is not an argument against God's existence or an argument that truth about God is not clear. Rather, the existence of so many religions is demonstration of humanity's rejection of the one true God. Mankind has replaced Him with gods that are more to their liking. This is a dangerous enterprise. The desire to recreate God in our own image comes from the sin nature within us—a nature that will eventually “reap destruction” **
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 * "Religious Issues." Current Issues: Macmillan Social Science Library. Detroit: Gale, 2010. Opposing Viewpoints in Context. Web. 12 Feb. 2014 **
 * __Summary__ : Religion affect many areas of society in a profound way.it help people to care for others. According to the article a shared religion is a powerful social bond that ties people together and Many religious organizations work to promote social welfare by such actions as assisting the poor, caring for the sick, and sheltering the homeless. But in some society when people of different faith live together religious differences can lead to a serious argument and even war. Although religious belief has always been an aspect of American culture since colonial times In 1835 Democracy in America. When the pilgrims came to america so that they could practice their faith, but they were not allow to use other religious belief. Then Several colonies in the South and in New England established state churches that were supported by public taxes. However, residents of some other colonies strongly opposed attempts to create state churches.And for that reason some people were afraid that the deficit of an established, or state, church would destroy religious sentiment in the nation, according to the article After the United States won its independence from Great Britain, the founders of the new nation addressed the issue of religious freedom in the First Amendment to the Constitution. Which said "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." that mean the government get involved with religion, but also will not promote one religion over others. And around the world, religion plays many different roles in society for example religion group played a big role in civil right movement. **
 * __Analysis__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">this will help me to write about American Culture, Where they religion came from and how group churches are important to a society. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Some devout people feared that the lack of an established, or state, church would destroy religious sentiment in the nation. However, exactly the opposite occurred. With all religions free to practice equally, the United States became a hotbed of religious expression and experimentation. Over the course of history, a variety of new religious groups emerged to attract people dissatisfied with their current faith. The list of religious groups that originated in America includes, among others, Mormons, Christian Scientists, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and the Nation of Islam. **
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 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">"Preface to 'Are Religion and Science in Conflict?'." World Religions. Ed. Mike Wilson. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2006. Opposing Viewpoints. Opposing Viewpoints in Context. Web. 12 Feb. 2014. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Summary: Both religion and science are ways of explaining the world. Science utilizes the scientific method, which involves making observations, using the hypotheses to make predictions, and testing the predictions by experiment or further observation. Religious explanations of the world are based on holy writings, and faith. Through these, people you learn how and why the world was created. During the last centuries there was an argument between knowledge and belief, and science thought it was time that belief should be replaced increasingly by knowledge. There was a number of scientist who have claimed that their understanding of the world. According to the article during the sixteenth century, for example, astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus said that Earth travel around the Sun but was denied by church, and His writings were condemned by the Church as heretical. In 1633 Italian scientist Galileo Galilee faced trial before the Inquisition and was forced to renounce his belief in Copernicus's theories. He was spared capital punishment because he recanted, but he spent the remainder of his life under house arrest. Notably, Galileo did not believe science conflicted with religion, saying "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use." Nearly three centuries later, Albert Einstein echoed Galileo's words: Everyone who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the universe—a spirit vastly superior to that of man, and one in the face of which we with our modest powers must feel humble. In this way the pursuit of science leads to a religious feeling of a special sort, which is indeed quite different from the religiosity of someone more naïve. the article suggest that two-thirds believe in God. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Analysis this will help me to tell the difference between science and religion **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">It may seem surprising that individuals who know the most about science are often the least troubled by its possible threat to religion. Possibly, the more scientists learn about the world, the more they realize how little they know, which evokes a sense of awe and humility, an openness to religious explanations. Other people of faith, however, believe that the teachings of science undermine religious faith. In this chapter, the authors explore whether science and religion are in conflict. **

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 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">"Religion and the environment." Environmental Encyclopedia. Gale, 2011. Opposing Viewpoints in Context. Web. 12 Feb. 2014 **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Summary: this article suggest according to the Bible we must have respect for our nature, and be kind to the animals. We human must respect and protect the natural environment and other life forms appears throughout the sacred writings of the prophets and leaders of the world's great religions. But those things are infrequently observed or practiced, but many Christians Feel that they are more relevant today than ever. Also the Bible teaches that in a devastate nature, the Lord's creation is being destroyed and the sacred trust as caretakers of the land over which humans were given is violated. According to the source the article destroy entire species of wildlife are not justified by the Bible, that means we should treat animals with kindness and to animals to "be fruitful and multiply" and fill the earth. This movement will have a huge potential in the world it will improve and protect the natural environment and the welfare of humans who rely upon it. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Analysis this will help me to write about the environment we are living in, and animal torture **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The religions of the East have also recognized and stressed the importance of protecting natural resources and living creatures. Buddhism and Hinduism have doctrines of non-violence to living beings and have teachings that stress the unity and sacredness of all of life. Some Hindu gods and goddesses are embodiments of the natural processes of the world. Taoists, who practice a philosophy and worldview that originated in ancient China, strive to live in harmony with the tao, or the natural way of the universe. Many other religions, including the Bahá" and those of Native Americans, Amazon Indian tribes, and other indigenous and tribal peoples, stress the sanctity of nature and the need to conserve wildlife, forests, plants, water, fertile land, and other natural resources. **
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 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Shoemaker, H. Stephen. "Cults and Religions Have Important Differences." Cults. Ed. Roman Espejo. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2013. Opposing Viewpoints. Rpt. from "Ten Marks of a Religious Cult." [|__staging.nambtest.net__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. Opposing Viewpoints in Context. Web. 12 Feb. 2014. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Summary; This article suggest that we have a mixture of good and bad religion in all of us.Such as the horror of the David Koresh cult tragedy [in which nearly one hundred people died during a 1993 siege near Waco, Texas, this is a way of being more vigilant to false religion in us all. And unhealthy religion is the kind of religion unhealthy persons have. But we should also say that we are all vulnerable to false religion and unhealthy spirituality, some more than others. According to the article there are ten marks of false or “cult” religion, “cult” is a term that is use to label any religious group that is wrong. for example, a Godlike leader Paul and barnabas are the Greek gods Zeus and Hermes, and they begin to worship them. Paul and Barnabas show their integrity by being horrified at this worship. and second mark of false is an escape from reality. Reality has to do with the truth of things, truth which can be validated by other people. Cult religion provides few "reality checks." A reality check is when you go to another person or to a group and say, "I'm not sure I'm perceiving things correctly. Would you test my perceptions with me?" Cult religion is characterized by false perceptions. According to the article there was a poet named Eliot and said this phrase "Humankind cannot bear very much reality." Good religion helps us bear a bit more so we might live more healthily. False religion helps us to flee reality. It traffics in magical thinking. Magical thinking imagines magical solutions to problems not based in reality. It says, "If I do or say this, I can get God to act in this way or the world to respond in this way." Which I think is true, I've been in a couple churches where I see the pastor put his hands on top of somebody’s head and telling them to say things. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Analysis this article will help to write the difference between cults and Religions **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">There is mixture of good and bad, true and false, healthy and unhealthy religion in all of us. Powerful unhealthy personalities have the capacity to victimize people when they use religion to prop up their cause and justify their claims. As [French philosopher Blaise] Pascal said hundreds of years ago: "Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction." **
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 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Wainwright, William J. "Religious Experience." Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Ed. Donald M. Borchert. 2nd ed. Vol. 8. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2006. 401-404. Opposing Viewpoints in Context. Web. 12 Feb. 2014. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Summary :Religious Experience, The majority of the discussions of the nature of religious experience are a reaction to Walter Stace, who believed that mysticism appears in two forms. Extrovertive mysticism is an experience of nature's unity and of one's identity with it. Introvertive mysticism is not a different unity that is devoid of concepts and images; it appears to be identical with what others have called "pure consciousness”.There are two types of introvertive mysticism-monistic (pure consciousness) and theistic. The latter is a form of mutual love that unites God and the mystic in an experience without images and with very little, if any, conceptual content. perhaps most are visual or auditory but not physically **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The source suggest that the principal forms of mystical prayer in Christianity (quiet, rapture, and full union). **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Analysis this article will help me to identify religious beliefs and practices in religious feelings **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Richard Gale, on the other hand, argues that religious experience lacks the authority of sense experience. The only way of establishing religious experience's cognitively is by showing that the tests for it are similar to those for sense experience. Arguments for religious experience's cognitive validity fail because the dissimilarities are too great. Alston and Wainwright contend that these dissimilarities can be explained by differences in the experiences' apparent objects. Gale objects that explaining the disanalogies does not explain them away and that there is a "tension" or "inconsistency" in claiming that the tests are similar (as they must be if the defense of religious experience's cognitivity is to be successful) and yet different in nature. The first point is dubious. Only relevant disanalogies count. The point of Wainwright's and Alston's explanations is to show that the disanalogies are not relevant—that is, that the features that tests for sense experiences have and tests for religious experiences lack are not ones we would expect the latter to have if religious experiences were veridical perceptions of their apparent objects. **