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Term Paper Title	Name: Pravin Prathapan
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Name: Pravin Prathapan
Student Id: 31361
Assignment-Essay 3- Religion-Why do we Believe?
Job Due: 3rd March 1999

     God sees without eyes, feels without a skin, tastes without a tongue, grasps without hands, walks without feet, flies without wings, smells without a nose and thinks without a mind. He has no beginning and no end. He is everywhere. He is the support of everything in all the worlds. He is wisdom, power, beauty, bliss, mercy, fame and renunciation and every other good quality imaginable. God has no parts, no limits, no actions, he dwells in every heart and has no boundaries. He is purity itself and has no desires. He is the silent witness of all that is taking place, and knows what is going on in every mind. He is truth, love and peace. He is the highest being. (Dharmaratnam,64). If man were to be asked the most important question, to which he would be given the correct answer to, it would definitely have to be if whether there really was a God. For generations' man has only dared-silently-to question god's existence. Those who have dared to speak out have found themselves shunned from society, some not as lucky. What would it matter anyway? Would knowing change our lives so drastically that the answer would be worth yearning. What is religion? What do we gain from it? Do we gain at all? Although man has had his mind clouded with misconceptions of his religions and blames it for all the war’s and famine and suffering that it has caused due to the fighting among followers, the naked truth remains that it is not religion that has brought this upon them but it is religion that teaches man the three most important virtues of  life which are truth, love and peace.
Reading any daily newspaper would show us the wars and killings that are going on solely based on the conflicts of religion. Hundreds dying every day just because they pray to different gods and believe in different religions. Followers of  Islam fighting with the Jewish warriors over wars that could be settled amicably if only they tried their best. Ethnic cleansing in some countries are claiming the lives of thousands of innocent women and children everyday. But are these catastrophes caused by religion. Is it the fault of the bible, the Koran or the Bhagavad Gita ?
     All religions contain a mixture of truth, the first important virtue , which is divine, Truth is the law of slavery and death (Kafridge, 28). Every religion teaches its disciples to be truthful. They teach them to be true to...

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