REL 1000 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Dukkha, Guanyin, Gender Role
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According to bill maher, karl marx, sigmund freud, william james, paul tillich, ninian smart, and. What are the strengths and weaknesses of each theory/definition: bm: religion will lead to the end of the world. Equated religion with stupidity; it was blind faith. Religion had to die or human civilization would: km: (cid:396)eligio(cid:374) is (cid:862)opiate of the (cid:373)asses(cid:863). It assures the poor and powerless that, if they are obedient in this life, they will be rewarded in the next: sf: (cid:862)(cid:396)eligio(cid:374) is (cid:374)eu(cid:396)osis(cid:863). If they o(cid:271)ey (cid:862)fathe(cid:396)-figu(cid:396)e(cid:863) they get a reward. If not, they receive eternal punishment: wj: religion is attempt to harmonize oneself with a transcendent reality. Wanted to capture the positive and negative: pt: (cid:862)(cid:396)eligio(cid:374) has to do (cid:449)ith (cid:449)hate(cid:448)e(cid:396) is of ulti(cid:373)ate (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:272)e(cid:396)(cid:374) to a gi(cid:448)e(cid:374) pe(cid:396)so(cid:374) o(cid:396) (cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)u(cid:374)ity. (cid:863, ns: religion does not have only one dimension. Based it on what it does, not what it is: four function theory.
