PSC 170 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Mount Kinabalu
5/1/18 – PRAYER, PART 2
Which of the following is an empirical statement?
a) Whoever trusts in Jesus will have eternal life.
b) Eer perso’s fate is deteried kara.
c) Oe’s et life ill e defied ho oe ats in this one.
d) People believe in God b/c God created people w/ a need for faith.
e) None of the above.
According to Smith, which of the following is a central purpose of religious practices?
a) To help practitioners communicate w/ or align themselves w/ superhuman powers.
b) To be spiritual.
c) To get into heaven.
d) All of the above.
Which of the following is a religious superhuman power?
a) Superman
b) Karma
c) God
d) Roxanne, Jehan, and Matt
e) b and c only
Attributing Events to Superhuman Powers
• Violation of the sacred Mount Kinabalu in Malaysia.
o Demonstrates the human propensity to make religious attributions of events.
• Not always negative events. Many times attributed to miraculous and good events.
Great Fortune or Misfortune
• When an event requires power beyond known human agency, gods or other superhuman
powers may be an intuitively satisfying explanation.
• Seven from Heaven
o Septuplets born and survived.
o Seen it as a miracle that the babies survived and were healthy.
Chile Mining Accident (2010)
• 33 miners trapped underground for 68 days. All survived.
• Some thanking God for the rescue.
• "We want the world to know that we're not alone, that we have our government, our workers,
our companions sacrificing their days and hours and moments that they could be enjoying with
their families."
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