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POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE EFFECTS OF RELIGION ( HUMSS_WRB12-I/IIIc-3.1 ) LEARNING OBJECTIVES: 1. understand the positive and negative effects of religion 2. appreciate the value of the positive effects of religion to oneself. 3. gather a web-based articles, photos and editorials sho...

POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE EFFECTS OF RELIGION ( HUMSS_WRB12-I/IIIc-3.1 ) LEARNING OBJECTIVES: 1. understand the positive and negative effects of religion 2. appreciate the value of the positive effects of religion to oneself. 3. gather a web-based articles, photos and editorials showing the positive and negative effects of religion. RECAP: Geography of Faith  West Asia or Western Frontier (Abrahamic) Indian Subcontinent or South Asia (Dharmic) Eastern End or East Asia (Daoic) MOTIVATION: "Imagine" by John Lennon "Imagine" Imagine there's no heaven It's easy if you try No hell below us Above us, only sky Imagine all the people Livin' for today Aha aahhaa... You may say I'm a dreamer But I'm not the only one I hope someday you'll join us And the world will be as one Imagine there's no countries It isn't hard to do Nothing to kill or die for And no religion, too Imagine all the people Livin' life in peace You  What do you think will happen to our society if religion does not exist? What do you think is the message of John Lennon's song, Imagine ? POSITIVE EFFECTS 1)Promote Social 4) Explains the Harmony Unknown 2) Provides Moral 5) Gives positive Values Goal in Life 3) Provides Social 6) Gives People sense Change of Belonging NEGATIVE EFFECTS 1) Affirms Social 4) Serves as an Hierarchy Economic Tool for Controlling the Masses 2) Causes 5) Impedes Scientific Discrimination Success and Development 3) Triggers Conflict 6) Obstruct the Use and Fight of Reason GROUP ACTIVITY: INSTRUCTIONS 1) The class will be divided into 10 groups & each group will be composed of 4-5 members 2) Groups will be given 5 minutes to brainstorm right after the groups pick their flash card. ACTIVITY: 3) There should be a presenter from each group to explain why the selected effect is positive or negative. 4) After presenting the, the presenter will go to the board and paste it to the right column. SUMMARY F POSITIVE EFFECTS  Promotes Social Harmony  People from ancient ( to date) believe in the need for intermediaries to communicate with deities. E.g. babaylanes or catalones whose function is to intercede between deities and people, to play ritual, play as healers, act as cultural leader. Xiao or filial piety refers to attitde of obedience, devotion and care for one’s parents and family elder. In Jainism, ahimsa (non-violence) promote social solidarity. No violence to other life forms.  “Faith for Rights” “Our objective is to Promotes Social Harmony foster the development of peaceful societies, where diversity is not just tolerated but fully respected and celebrated,” UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein said in a video message to participants at the two-day meeting hosted by the UN Human Rights Office in Beirut Source: https://cpnn-world.org/ne w/?p=9477  Provides Moral Values Religion provides a system of reward and punishment that administers and standardizes peoples behavior in society. Religion causes people to view morality as a set of objective truths.  Provides Moral Values Every religion teaches its followers to choose right over wrong, good over evil, truth over lies, and live a prosperous life with peace and harmony Source: https://religiousnat uralism.org/ideas/m orality-and-values/  Provides Social Change  Religion can be very effective in lobbying and campaigning for certain social issues using its own moral teachings as the basis of argument. In the Philippines, much credit has been given to the Catholic Church for the success of the People Power Revolution in 1986 when Archbishop Jaime Cardinal Sin urged the people to join the protest rally to oust the dictator, former president Ferdinand Marcos. Mahatma Gandhi’s satyagraha, or passive resistance, which paved the way for India’s independence from the British in the 20th century.  Provides Social Change The Rise for Climate, Jobs, and Justice march in San Francisco in September 2018 source: https://insights. som.yale.edu/in sights/can-faith- power-social-ch  Religion was Explains the developed for Unkown man’s need to have a sense of origin and destination, to discover where they came from and where they are bound to go when they die.  Explains the Unknown The belief in the afterlife has become very important in most religions Hindus - e.g, how they follow their dharma (moral and social obligation) determines what will happen to them in the afterlife: as long as they follow their dharma, they will reap good karma (karma refers to moral consequences of one’s act) which will eventually liberate their souls from bad karma, leading them to attain moksha, or the reunion of Brahman or universal soul and atman or individual soul People were inspired by the stories of Gives Positive Goals in different prophets Life from their own religious affiliations, like that of Moses, Siddharta Gautama, and Muhammad. These people showed how ordinary people like them were given important missions in life, and how they struggled to carry out their respective missions.  Gives People sense of belonging Religion provides people with personal identity as part of a group with similar worldviews, beliefs, values, practices, and lifestyle.  Gives People sense of belonging E.g. In Sikh principle of Seva or also known as Sewa from the word Karseva means “selfless service”. Sikhs are expected to perform work or service without expecting any in return. This is encourage by Guru Granth Saib. By doing so, they are not only promoting good community relations but also paving the way for the moral uplifting of a person, thus strengthening his or her sense of belonging to the community. NEGATIVE EFFECTS  Affirms Social Hierarchy In patriarchal societies the male is the acknowledged authority, and women are expected to nurture and take care of the family and to maintain the family's honor (Assanand et al., 2005; Sagot, 2005).  Affirms Social Hierarchy the Confucian emphasis on the relations between the ruler and the subject, with the former exercising authority over the latter.  Affirms Social Hierarchy caste system in India would also reflect how religion reflects political and social structures since it propagated the idea that people had to be subdivided into certain social classes with particular social roles and that the attainment of moksha (union of universal soul and individual soul) would depend on how they performed their duties based on their designated class.  Causes Discrimination Religious fanaticism can lead to feelings of hatred, which could lead to racism, and eventually violence. Throughout history, religion has been used by colonizers to justify their forcible occupation of territories. In a way, religion has made this worlda more complicated place to live in.  Causes Discrimination In Islam, the practice of wearing the hijab (a head covering worn in public by Muslim women) is considered by many critics as a form of suppression against Muslim women. Women have to cover their body, from head to toe, so as not to attract the attention of men— perpetuating the notion that women are temptations that men should avoid.  Triggers. conflict and Fight Holocaust, (“Destruction”), the systematic state- sponsored killing of six million Jewish men, women, and children and millions of others by Nazi Germany and its collaborators during World War II. In Mein Kampf (“My Struggle”; 1925–27), Hitler further developed the idea of the Jews as an evil race struggling for world domination  Triggers conflict and Fight. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is over who gets what land and how it's controlled. Though both Jews and Arab Muslims date their claims to the land back a couple thousand years, the current political conflict began in the early 20th century  Economic Tool for Controlling the Masses According to Marx, it maintains social inequality by propagating a worldview that justifies oppression. He believed that religion can be effectively used by the ruling class to maintain a social order that is more favorable to them.  Impedes Scientific Success and Development Throughout history, religion has proven to impede scientific development. For example, it has often been said that the Catholic Church used to teach that the world is flat and warned people against going to faraway places if they do not wish to fall off the edge of the earth. Another example would be the claim that the earth is the center of the solar system, also known as the Ptolemaic theory. Aristarchus, and later on, Nicolas Copernicus, proved that the sun is the center of the solar system and all other planets move around it, hence advancing the heliocentric model.  Obstruct the use of reason Ancient religious beliefs and practices which have proven to be inhuman should be replaced with sensible ones. Take the case of the trepanning, or the ancient practice of boring holes in the human skull, a surgical procedure performed on epileptics and the mentally ill, with the belief that through the hole the evil spirit will leave the person. During those days they regard it as an attempt at exorcism, but at present the procedure is just unthinkable. As a student, how do you value the positive effects of religion? In the context of your own religion, among the different positive effects of religion, which one give you the meaning and value? Why ? Why is it important to study the positive and negative effects of religion? Internet workload: 1. make a compilation of positive and negative effects of religion through gathering web-based articles, photos and editorials ). 2. Each member should search and bring one positive and one negative effects of religion in form a ( web-based article, photo and editorial ). 3. Write short description for every positive and negative effects your found explaining the (photos, editorial or any web-based article you found) 4. Be able to present your work as a group in the whole class  Performance Task ◦Gather a web-based articles, photos and editorials showing the positive and negative effects of religion. ◦On one bond paper make a collage about the positive effect of religion. On the other bond paper, make a collage about the negative effects of religion. Write brief explanation for both positive and negative effects of religion ◦Use A4 bond paper. Use 2 bond paper only. Thank you for Listening !