What I Believe on Religion

What I Believe on Religion/Spirituality

This is what I currently, prior to my experience in this class believe about religion and spirituality. When I first started this philosophy class, I wrote a short essay “religion/spirituality how it affects and does not affect my life”. My answer to the question is that it was hard to put into words my religious and spiritual beliefs. I am religious and spiritual I never thought about how it affects or does not affect my life directly. To be a better person, help others, do your best in this life so I will go to heaven. When we die, we really do not want to think that there is nothing.

Now my understanding after the readings in this class on religion and spirituality I am going to discuss how my belief have stayed the same, with the article in Twenty Questions an Introduction to Philosophy “The Will To Believe”. William James talks about the genuine choice must meet three criteria the choice must be live, forced and momentous the live or dead hypothesis, forced or avoidable hypothesis and momentous or trivial hypothesis. William James provides a justification of faith. He shows many ideas on what influences a persons belief of religious faith. In the end he concludes that in certain cases it is not only permissible but also inevitable that your passion, non-rational nature will determine what you will believe.

Live and dead hypothesis, live is a choice that has some emotional appeal to the person who is choosing it. This is an internal and substantial appeal, not a forced appeal. The dead is a choice in which you have no appeal to the person choosing. Live or dead hypothesis makes some appeal, even the smallest to a person’s belief. I agree with these hypothesis when we are young we live our lives according to the beliefs our parents have chosen for us. As we grow older, we find reasons to believe what we want and need to believe. I have come to acknowledge that