Essay on Religion as Symbolism

In the chapter “Religion as Symbolism”, the authors have argued that there is much more to the interrelationships that bind different people together as persons. According to the authors, in its outward form, if our religious life’s panorama is selected mundane information that symbolizes more than mundane, then the observers’ or students’ task of religion to get knowledge about that information and to consider it as its role in our lives, not in themselves. Primarily, their concern is not the scriptures and doctrines and rites and institutions and prayers; but somewhat, what this does to a child or a woman. The authors have argued that in the history of humanity, the most powerful symbol without any question or doubt is a concept ‘God’. Like other human symbols and other religious symbols, the concept ‘God’ has demonstrably intended different things to different groups and persons and ages, however, this concept is a most considerable symbol.

Human life is more than just a little complex. It has folds upon folds of behaviors and different aspects which don’t seem to reach an end. An eye is unable to see the depths of a human life and even with different technologies and modern tools, it is difficult to be understood. The past is like an avalanche of happenings, events, and situations leading one to another. All of them are connected and the same could be said about the interrelationships which keep us bond by strong bonds. With the depth of mysteries, the involvement increases and it feels like drowning and drowning without a proper and specific end. In behaviors and the attitudes, religious symbols and codes are included which makes humans what they are. Without the involvement of such codes, humans would not be humans, they would evolve definitely into something else. Life has been shaped by many diverse things such silence, Quran, and a figure.

A very important aspect of a religion is the entity, the major figure that seems to shape the whole religion. The concepts of God can be found in almost every religion and different concepts are made according to different communities. No doubt, different studies substituting the possibilities of a God are also present. However, they don’t seem to shape the life of a human at all. Studies and theories are morphed and the same cannot be said about the highest figure, the designer. Buddhists, Christians, and Hindus, they all have their own symbolic figures and the codes which shape their life. Symbolic figures and codes in different religions seem to give purpose to the followers which they are unable to find on their own. The codes shape their behaviors, their attitudes, and their beliefs. Meanwhile Voltaire was a secularist who was quite professes and he definitely didn’t have the time for thinking about Gods and their stories. The legacy is the same and it simplifies the concepts but when it comes to Hinduism things get tough. There are many varieties of beliefs and they, by far, defy Christianity. The difference between two is quite wide. [1]

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