In Lara Buchak’s essay, Can It Be Rational to Have Faith? , she asserts that everyday faith statements and religious faith statements share the same attributes. She later states that in order to truly have faith, a person ceases to search for more evidence for their claim, and that having faith can be rational. Although she makes compelling arguments in favor of faith in God, this essay is more hearsay and assumption than actual fact. In this paper, you will see that looking for further evidence would constitute not having faith, but that having faith, at least in the religious sense, is irrational.
According to mahatma gandhi the word “Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into” (“Mahatma”). This can be seen in Elie Wiesel's memoir night through himself. As the memoir opens we learn that he was 15 during ww2 and that him and his father were put into a concentration camp. Elie Wiesel's, night, i belive experiences his loss of faith through this holocaust.
Not just faith in themselves, but in God. In Night, the main character Ellie stopped having faith in God, and that took a huge toll on his survival. He thought there was no reason to believe, “Why should I sanctify His name? The almighty, the eternal and terrible Master of the universe, chose to be silent. What was there to thank Him for?”(Wiesel 33).
One example of faith in “The Crucible” would be Abigail Williams believing John Proctor still loves her even when he denies their relationship. When Proctor comes to the Parris’s home to check on Betty, Abigail begins to accuse him of still having feelings for her. She is convinced that Proctor did truly love her because of the way he acted when she was around him and when Elizabeth fired her. Abigail has faith that Proctor did not want “to put her out” but his wife is the one who wanted her gone. Proctor continues to reject any relations between them until admitting “he may think of her softly from time to time”.
“It isn't fair how I doubt him, and I wonder if he'll ever gather that my loss of faith extends further than I'd ever known it would, severing lines of trust and leveling my confidence like a city-flattening tornado.” “(Webber).” This quote by Tammara Webber shows that no matter how much faith you have before in some situations it may go away in an instant making you not only wonder just how much faith did you lose and the lines of trust that was broken, but also how much you now doubt your god making you slowly grow as a new person gaining confidence as you start to go through more and more soul crushing hardships that make you think at what cost. Hard experiences that make you do and believe things you never thought you would of in your
Faith influences everyone; whether it be faith in a god, a person, or one's own self, faith is ever present. It is one of the most powerful things in all of history; it migrated thousands of people, killed millions, and influences laws in every society. During World War II, the Nazi party of Germany killed up to 6 million people of the Jewish religion. Some of these Jews maintained their faith while they were being killed, some started to break from it, and many lost it completely. If their god was the reason they were being persecuted, how could they have faith in him?
“I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes i’ve been closer to Him for that reason” - Elie Wiesel. Elie Wiesel explains how he hasn’t lost his faith and that it is even stronger since the events of the Holocaust and his anger towards his God. Elie’s constant struggle made him not only lose faith but even become numb to all the constant pain around him.
The question must be asked, however, is faith actually realized without trevail? The writer of Hebrews writes, “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” (11:1) Therefore, without hope...faith is inconceivable. Within the memoir, Night, Elie Wiesel, a young man portrayed as having a strong faith, once exposed to the horrific dehumanization and murder of millions of men, women, and innocent children throughout the Holocaust, ceases to have hope and loses faith in his
In life, faith can not be proven; therefore, your faith in something can be taken away. For example, with age the belief of mystical characters such as unicorns and mermaids are taken away and the faith in a person can go away once they lie about something. In the heartbreaking memoir Night by Elie Wiesel Elie, a Jewish child that was deeply religious, was gradually stripped of his faith by his experiences during the Holocaust. Hitler and the Nazis were responsible for brutally killing millions of Jews in attempt to exterminate the Jewish race and Elie manages to survive the excruciating time. In the beginning of the memoir Elie is very religious and even interested in mysticism.
When Abraham’s son, Isaac, became of age to be married, he sent his “servant to search out and find his son a wife from a good family that would join him in devotion to God” (“Isaac and Rebekah”). This reveals
I can relate to having faith because I often put trust or confidence into someone or something when I’m having a struggle in my life. When I was younger I didn’t really know God. Once I found out about God, I immediately learned having faith in him is one of the most important decisions anyone can ever make. Once I made that decision to maintain my trust in him I noticed that many things started to fall my way. In the novel, Eliezar also questioned his faith several times but always turned back to putting his trust in God because he knew what was right.
Kierkegaard believes that the existence of God could not be proven by reasons. However, he did not think that it was rational to believe in God, but to have faith in God. In Kierkegaard reading I disagree in his perspective because I believe that a person should have faith to believe in God and his existence. I also disagree in how he believes in faith of God, but not in God itself.
We have studied over twenty authors, but some of my favorites include Thomas More, Immanuel Kant, and Soren Kierkegaard. In 1516, Thomas More wrote Utopia. In 1785, Immanuel Kant published, Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals. In 1843, Soren Aabye Kierkegaard published, Fear and Trembling. All three authors are very different in their backgrounds and views.
Faith is believing there is light when all one can see is darkness. Throughout Hamlet, Shakespeare uses belief as a guiding force for his characters. They are defined by their faith, or lack thereof, and their beliefs lead many of their actions. In this time period, so many people had horrible lives, faith in an afterlife was the only hope in which to keep living. The concept of an afterlife based on how one behaved in life is a defining characteristic of many religions, and Shakespeare uses this belief as the ultimate decision-maker in many character’s actions.
First, in Genesis, Abraham was tested by sacrificing his son, Isaac, to be the offering at Moriah (Genesis 22). However, God stopped Abraham from slaying his son when he was prepared to do so. A ram was provided by God and it was sacrificed instead of Isaac. The second event was the origin of the Passover which is recorded in Exodus. It was about the deliverance of Israelites from slavery and Egypt by God who brought them to the promised land (Exodus 12).
