Download Religious Studies The positive and Negative effect . A reflection and analysis base on wha and more Essays (high school) Religious studies in PDF only on Docsity! Article video: Politics and Religion | Game of Politics and Religious Conflicts In the World Reflection : Religion is teaching people to behave in the best ways possible ,in a few words is to be perfect, just like angels but obviously people are not angels. When you fail to do what God has ordered, you start hating yourself. You begin to accept the idea that you are indeed a bad person, corrupted and unworthy. And once you do so, your mind becomes filled with hatred and bitterness . Once you start hating yourself, you are bound to start hating others too. When you accept the idea that you are a sinner, you start seeing those around you as sinners. As a result, you fear that those you meet want to harm you they are also evil, ill-willed, enemies of yours. You have grown up conditioned to believe what is right and wrong according to a religious dogma, and you’ve been taught that to doubt the religion you were born into means to go to hell, naturally you become afraid of seeking knowledge. You stop searching to find truth, and hence to educate yourself and grow as a human being. To blindly follow a religious or any other ideology simply means to restrict your perception, suppress your thoughts and emotions, and live in insincerity, to live in pain and misery. Many people choose to follow a religious dogma, even though they’re suffering from this choice, simply because religion frees them from personal responsibility. Faith and trust in a higher power, is a defining characteristic of the way many people live and make decisions. A person may base a number of life choices on