Hum 1270 Week 1, Question 1
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Nemitt Sopraseuth
Dr. Davis
HUM-1270-W02
18 September 2023
Weekly Essays: Weeks 1-3
Week 1
1. Why do you think people believe in God? (This may pertain to people today or in the past). You
might start by making a list of reasons for belief. The parameters of a definition for God in this first
question can include the notion of a higher power, ultimate reality, universal source (force), supreme
entity, or spirit(s). Why do people belong to organized religions? How about the whole issue of
disbelief?
What are the reasons for people not believing in “the divine” or some type of ultimate
reality? Could some of the reasons (and reasoning) for belief be similar to those who opt for
disbelief (atheists) or for skepticism (agnostics)? Under what circumstances would the reasons for
faith or disbelief be different?
Belief in God is subjective, whether it be consciously or subconsciously, a plethora of
reasons can be made for why one does or doesn’t want to have faith in God’s existence. If one
were to ask people for why they believe in God, results would vary from person to person. Some
may answer with self-assurance while others may grow their first bout of skepticism. Upbringing
is one major factor that warrants focus, some like myself, have been born into being taught about
God via Catholicism, and never thought to look at it with any scrutiny until years later. Inversely,
I gained a desire to learn about other faiths such as Buddhism once I began to understand that
others around me had piety within different faiths. This understanding was developing, learning
about how faith shapes one’s moral compass or bestows upon them the will to either live or
attempt to understand what’s beyond their life.
Individual factors aren’t the only reasons for one to take up belief in a faith, many follow
a similar belief, resulting in the formation of bonds and communities. These communities are
what form the backbone of organized religions and allows those that are devout to have a sense
of belonging, able to be directed by the same values and principles and are more likely to have
similar solutions for a given problem. Organized religion is not only formed for their inclusivity,
they also can refine one’s religious observance, able to further understand any connection of their
faith made within scriptures and myths, allowing further integration of it to one’s life.
Despite much development being made for the building of religious communities, there
will still be individuals who choose not to believe in a God for many reasons. Many reasons are
similar to those for why one believes in God, such as upbringing, where it begins to differ
however comes from our interpretations of how one answers the supernatural phenomena about
the world and its existence. Scientific reasonings for why life exists doesn’t provide any concrete
evidence in the existence of God in a sense, so it’s natural that some group that don’t believe in
God would be at odds with those that do, contrasting information is liable to create disagreement.
Even if one were to disregard the use of science, others can disbelieve simply under the
viewpoint that if there is evil in the world and why would God allow it if he existed. Common
reasons for belief and disbelief overlap in a way, They are both are rooted in concern and desire
to understand and explain the existence of how our world came to be, while some don’t look to
this topic with much depth from either side, discussion is frequent enough for religion to be
worth teaching about to students and other individuals.
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