Brenda's Ans

1. WHAT ARE THE DISADVANTAGES OF RELIGION?
-Cultural destruction

-Problematic discrepancies present cultural values

-Conflicts between practitioner of different creed

-Conflicts between supertitious belief

-Conflicts between adherences and atheists

2. HOW CAN RELIGION UNITE PEOPLE?

-People believing In God

-Festival open house (eg: Christmas Day)

-Organize activites (eg: perform)

-Religion teach people have to love and protect each other so they will be united

-When people take the same in religion as if its a same in spscies they can united

3. HOW CAN PEOPLE INTERPRET RELIGION DIFFERNTLY?

- Different religions have diffrent belief

- Every religion transfer different message (bible) to their believer

- Beliefs are largely unproven and non-factual as a result people may interpret aspects of their

religion differently and have different view of religion

- Don't have a strong sense of religion so they may interpret religion differently

- The cultural of race and living are different so the religion are differently

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Religion Factors of gangsterism

From a very early age children can become members of or affiliated with a religious group because of their parents' commitments or decisions. They are introduced into that religious group's beliefs, norms and patterns of life. Conflict can occur for some students when they want to undertake a different religious or spiritual quest – which may also include a rebellion against any belief – to that of their family.
Some religious groups believe that theirs is the only true religion. This can lead to members of those religions being less accepting or tolerant of other belief systems. Members of these groups can be unwilling to find out about other belief systems. This situation sustains prejudices and stereotypical images.
In school communities discrimination and prejudice flourish when the interests of minority religious groups are not incorporated into the curriculum and whole school environment. Marginalising members of belief systems leads to intolerance, hostility and tension.
Religion has increasingly been recognized as a resource for treating additions. Operation Recoil, launched in October by police and related services in the Western Cape, had some effect in its early stages but did not decisively reduce overall gang activity drug- trafficking. More seriously, gang organization continued to operate on a secure basis throughout the Western Cape, especially in the working-class areas of the Cape Flats. According to the police Gang Investigation Unit, over 130 gangs are operating in the region, with anything between 30 000 and 80 000 active gang members. The U.S. government has begun funding religious addiction recovery programs as part of its faith-based initiatives.

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Introduction

Gangsterism is common in a developing nation such as Malaysia and we have heard a lot about it occurring in schools. It has been reported that in developed countries, schoolchildren are increasingly involved in gangs.
To curb this social ill, parents, educators and society at large should be aware of what is going on among our youths. Though there are various psychological and physical factors that cause a person to choose to become a gang member, here are some basic suggestions for parents/guardians to help nurture their children with love and respect.

Drugs

Have we lost today? Not at all. High-rate cocaine use is not commonplace. The National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA) reports that less than 5 percent of high-school seniors used cocaine within the last thirthy days. Of course this survey misses young people who have dropped out of school and miscounts those who lie on the questionnaire, but even if we inflate, the NIDA estimate by some plausible percentage, it is still not much above 5 percent. Medical examiners reported in 1987 that about 1500 died from cocaine use; hospital emergency rooms reported about 30000 admissions related to cocaine abuse. (Contemporary Moral Problems, James E. White, page 398)

Violence

Worldwide, violence claims the lives of 1.6 million people each year. According to a recent report by the World Healt Organization, 14 percent of all deaths for males in 2001 were due to violence, and 7 percent for females. Men were responsible for more than three-quartes of all homicides, with men ages 15 to 29 having the highest rates.
According to the lobbying group Handgun Control, "more Americans were killed with guns in the 18-year period between 1979 and 1997 (651,697) than were killed in battle in all wars since 1775 (650,858).An American dies from a gunshot wound every eighteen minutes. Of the 60,000 Americans to die from guns in the last two years, 1500 died accidentally, 15000 committed suicide and 11000 were murdered. Arguments about the contribution of gun availability to violent gun deaths often depend on empirical claims that are difficult to verify. Supporters of gun ownership most often appeal to particular interpretations of the Second Amendment to the U.S constitution and its stipulations about the "right to bear arms." Critics of such claims point out that this had to do with the need at the time for an armed militia as an internal protective force and that the same conditions do not now apply.