Religious Philosophy Course Lesson 21

MY VIEW: MASTER OF RELIGIOUS PHILOSOPHY LESSON 21

                                                     Food for Thought

• Critics, and some academics, have sometimes maintained that it is this focus on the internal self that has prevented societies where these religions are predominant that has resulted in their lack of material gain and progress. They accept the notion that it is this psychological focus that has removed any emphasis on scientific, educational, or economic advances. What are your thoughts? Do you think that emphasizing the "inner you" that that necessarily precludes social or scientific advances?

Answer: I don't go in line with the Critics, and some academics. Though these people may have been affected negatively due to this psychological focus; the whole issue boils back to how the mentors handled the issue of psychological training. Why? Because every human has a lot of wealth embedded within from creation.  Looking within and believing in oneself enables one to maximally utilize the God given potentials. And such can be taught via psychological focus.

 

• If, as we saw earlier in the course, that it is true that religions have tended to focus on one of Russell's 'three great problems' at the expense of the other two, which of these problems seems to you to be the "most important"? Ignoring for the moment the specific religions this indirectly indicates, do you believe the world would be better off if it adopted the views of the Western Ecclesiastical religions (i.e. the natural problem), the Eastern Ecclesiastical religions (i.e. the social problem), or the Southern Ecclesiastical religions (i.e. the psychological problem)? Why?

Answer:  The "most important" is the one that handles the psychological problem because if a man thinks aright, he will most likely behave aright towards everything on earth. The problem with the Southern Ecclesiastical religions is just what I have mentioned above- "how the mentors handled the issue of psychological training. Why? Because every human has a lot of wealth embedded within from creation.  Looking within and believing in oneself enables one to maximally explore and utilize the God given potentials. And such can be taught via psychological focus"

 

 

Thanks,

Yours in Him,

Ikpenwa, Chizoba Gabriel

Universal Life Church