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Unit 3 Religion
  • History of Religion
  • Mr. Young
  • Sociology

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I CAN
  1. Define the word religion
  2. Explain how religion is used for good purposes in
    the world
  3. Analyze why people twist religion and use it in
    bad ways

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Where to Begin?
  • Religion can encompass a vast and broad spectrum
    that is hard to define
  • Comes from Latin word religare (reback and
    ligare to bind), or being bound
  • This can be by choice, or sometimes by being
    forced

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Why Study Religion
  • Religion has always been with us
  • It answers some of lifes most important
    questions
  • It helps a person to define those things that are
    sacred in their lives
  • It helps people explain those things in life that
    are unexplainable

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Religion and the Social
  • Religion is the tie that binds a community
    together through various forms of beliefs and
    practice. It is an institution that contributes
    important ideas to society at large it also
    connects with specific aspects of non-religious
    social life, like economics and politics
  • http//www.studyreligion.org/what/index.html

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Misconceptions of Religion
  • You have to be religious to study religion
  • Studying religion is impractical
  • Religion is a good way to study the culture of a
    past society
  • It also helps to gain great insight and knowledge
    into that culture
  • Religion can teach good values and morals, even
    if you are not religious

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In the Name of Religion
  • Abortion Clinic Bombings
  • Holy Wars (Crusades)
  • Terrorism and Suicide
  • Mass Suicides
  • Adulteries and Affairs
  • Power, Money, Fame

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Abortion Clinic Bombings
  • Some of these are done in the name of religion
  • Army of God- anti-abortion group that promotes
    the use of violence against abortion clinics
  • Key members- Eric Rudolph
  • Pled guilty to bombing at least 4 places, killing
    of at least two people
  • On FBIs Top Ten Most wanted list

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Army of God Manual
  • "Beginning officially with the passage of the
    Freedom of Choice Act - we, the remnant of
    God-fearing men and women of the United States of
    Amerika (sic), do officially declare war on the
    entire child killing industry. After praying,
    fasting, and making continual supplication to God
    for your pagan, heathen, infidel souls, we then
    peacefully, passively presented our bodies in
    front of your death camps, begging you to stop
    the mass murdering of infants. Yet you hardened
    your already blackened, jaded hearts. We quietly
    accepted the resulting imprisonment and suffering
    of our passive resistance. Yet you mocked God and
    continued the Holocaust. No longer! All of the
    options have expired. Our Most Dread Sovereign
    Lord God requires that whosoever sheds man's
    blood, by man shall his blood be shed. Not out of
    hatred of you, but out of love for the persons
    you exterminate, we are forced to take arms
    against you. Our life for yours - a simple
    equation. Dreadful. Sad. Reality, nonetheless.
    You shall not be tortured at our hands. Vengeance
    belongs to God only. However, execution is rarely
    gentile."

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Army of God
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Army of God Videos
  • http//www.youtube.com/watch?vpcFjrSelcKY

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Crusade Videos
  • http//www.youtube.com/watch?vW8n0qAH7nzIfeature
    related

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Holy Wars (Crusades)
  • Started around 1090 and lasted till around 1300
  • Crusade literally means, Going to the Cross
  • Idea was to free Jerusalem and the other holy
    places from the Muslims
  • Only two successful crusades and also had two
    childrens crusades (useless)
  • 3rd crusade between Saladin and Richard the
    Lion-heart

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Crusades
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Terrorism and Suicide
  • This can be found in todays society with the
    Radical/Extreme religious groups
  • Feel that killing themselves and other infidels
    are the only certain way of getting to heaven
  • Usually brainwashed since a very early age
  • Will be in the name of a religion, but most
    religions do not teach about killing one another

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Terrorism
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Religious Terrorists
  • The individual believes that they are under
    attack
  • Evil is going to destroy their world and they
    must act

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Cont.
  • 2. Convinced that God wants the evil destroyed

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Cont.
  • 3. Violence is the only way to resolve the
    situation, and it is good in this case

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Cont.
  • 4. Become convinced that God has chosen them for
    this task
  • Dont necessarily want to kill or die, but it is
    better to die doing what is right than live as a
    coward
  • http//www.youtube.com/watch?vNsU1yyGZENsfeature
    fvst
  • Monty Python Part 3 (523)

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Cont.
  • These perspectives are nurtured by a community
  • The community supports them and people are more
    willing to do things in a community than by
    themselves

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Omar Hammami Video
  • http//www.youtube.com/watch?veHVuvD4RsC0
  • Documentary (45 minutes)
  • http//www.youtube.com/watch?veG5f2eZXy64feature
    related
  • Commentary on Doc above (5 min)

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Omar Hammami
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Mass Suicides
  • Will sometimes occur in radical religious groups
    or in cult settings
  • Feel that by doing this they can escape the
    present world and enter into a realm/afterlife
    that is better
  • Usually has a charismatic group leader with
    charismatic beliefs

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Jim Jones and Jonestown
  • Jim Jones and Jonestown- 918 members were killed
    by drinking red cool-aid or cyanide, largest mass
    suicide in history
  • https//www.youtube.com/watch?vLuJpTO9YU4M

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Heavens Gate/Hale-Bopp
  • Heavens Gate mass suicide- believed an alien
    space ship behind Comet Hale-Bopp and if they
    died they would be on it, 39 in all
  • In 1996 bought 10,000 worth of alien abduction
    insurance
  • http//www.5min.com/Video/The-Heavens-Gate-Mass-su
    icide-in-Rancho-Santa-Fe-California-120001572

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Heavens Gate Video
  • http//www.youtube.com/watch?vnh35j2S68DQ
  • http//abcnews.go.com/Archives/video/march-26-1997
    -heavens-gate-cult-suicide-9702192
  • http//www.youtube.com/watch?vIzWpfq103q4
  • CNN Remembers (5 min)
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