There are many religions throughout the world. The list goes on and on and will continue to grow, this goes for the whole world, not just here in America. Many people sometimes consider religion as a superstition, especially in most schools across the whole of the United States. When religion is brought up inside a public school in the United States it is either ignored entirely or asked to never be spoken of again. Besides this unfortunate fact, religion has shaped everything there is to shape in history. Religious beliefs across the world are growing stronger and larger. It is also turning into many controversies rather than a good thing like uniting mankind under many beliefs. Religion should unite the people not destroy them because of their differences. This is a fact that some people believe but not many follow.
The Judeo-Christian paradigm in Western Civilization is what happens when both of these religions were brought to the Western Civilization from the European area. When these religions were brought over this dramatically changed America forever, it was a new chapter in Her history. Over the many years that people had been coming to America and colonizing it it has changed into a world where there are many different religions everywhere you look. This is ok though because it proves that people are starting to think for themselves about what seems to be right or what is wrong. Human beings are the only living things that have the ability to self reflect, this shows that we have to learn what is right or wrong. If we do this that means we can think for ourselves what is right of wrong in our lives. We have the power to make decisions. We also have the power to make that decision and choose what religion we want to follow. This may be good or bad, there are examples of both throughout the course of history. For example, wars have been fought and peace has also crossed the minds of many people because of the fact that religion exists.
What has been changed the most in America because of religion is politics. There are people called democrats and republicans, which are two totally different things because of the fact that religion exists. Republicans tend to be old fashioned, an example of this would be that they do not like President Barack Obama just because he is black and from a Muslim background (note: he has never stated that he follows this religion personally but it was followed within his family). The democrats tend to be more on the "laid back" side. They go with the flow and support Obama because there is nothing wrong with growing up with a Muslim background. They also support him because he is not trying to take over our country and change it he is simply trying to do better and support our country every step of the way.
The cultural and religious beliefs that have shaped America over the past 200 hundred years are the Christian religion and its culture. They have changed America by shaping its politics and general way of living. Christianity is the biggest religion that is being followed here in the United States. Our politics are based off of it, according to the way that the democratic and republican parties work. Our culture is starting to tell us that this is the "best" religion out there and it is to be followed by everyone. This is the way that Christianity is being portrayed here in the United States. History is starting to repeat itself, like when the Europeans came here and started to change the natives’ people religion by force. The same thing is happening again now because this is how religion is being portrayed, just without the force.
The relationship between these beliefs and the culture, politics, religious tolerance and race relations in the United States in 2010 is hard to explain. Race relations in the United States in 2010 is thought of to be cacausion people follow Christian beliefs, people from the Asian area follow Buddhist, Muslim, or Hindu religion. All other people are supposed to pick and choose. The bigger and major religions are trying to get everyone they can to follow their religion. It is important to understand that every human being has the right to choose the way they will continue their life. Even now there are some parents that will let their teens explore the different religions that exist. The parent may want their child to choose the same way of worship as them but should understand that it is ok to choose different.
The cultural religious beliefs of one group have confronted and impacted the religious beliefs and cultures of another group. This seems to happen all the time. Throughout the entire world history there have been so many wars and battles fought that have been sparked by cultural religious beliefs. This usually happens because one will believe in Saints and another one won't, just as an example. Or another example will be that one believes in heaven or in God in general and the other won't. The key word here is believe. It's all in belief and the faith that people carry with them. It causes so many outbursts. There are so many examples that can be used for the confrontation started by religion. The question is, is there really a God? If so, what is he like? This is the question that people have been asking for eternity.
The clash of Western religious thought and culture impacted the Indigenous communities of New Mexico and the Southwest by changing the major religion that is followed here. Christianity is the religion that is being followed here in the Indigenous communities of New Mexico and in the Southwest. The clash of the Western religion doesn't exist but it has sparked the new fire that of passion and worship that is Christianity. The word clash isn't the appropriate word that should be used here; the word that should be used is passion or maybe even belief. The West has truly brought over the religion that has become America.
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