Karen's answer

WHY WE SHOULD ALLOW THE DEATH PENALTY TO CONTINUE IN MALAYSIA?

• So that the rate of criminal will decrease
• To show that the seriousness of the criminal
• Show justice for the victims
  

Grace's ans

Why we should allow death penalty to be continued in Malaysia?

1. Capital punishment is dealing with a person who is capable of premeditated, cold-blooded rape or murder.
2. Death Penalty is not cruel or unusual in comparison to the act. If you kill someone then, by extension, the punishment of death is not cruel or unusual it is simply of the same caliber of your crime.
3. It can help to reduce the rate of criminals.
   

Karen Tan's answers

(1)What are the disadvantages of religion?
=it divides when it is supposed to unite many wars have been waged because everyone has a different name for basically the same God only the metaphors are different.
=people who are evil use the church to cover up their badness. That is it part of their pretense. outwardly they appear to be Christians, for examples, because they go to church. But on the inside, they are far from it.
=too much self promotions and showing off.
=it will make a person feel over confidence that having a religion everthing will be fine.
=cause hate of those outside your particular flavor of religion, segregates people, censors people, spreads lies regarding science to protect itself
(2)How can religion unite people?
=having the same idea and opinion of unite
=discourage doing wrong deed but encourage doing good
=encourage people to be patient and tolerence in order to prevent misunderstand but to unite
=religion enable us to have a same beliefs and this can make us live together although we are from diferent races.
=religion made us to be a better person so that we can communicate and live well with others and finally it unite us.
(3)How can people intrepret religion differently
=different people have different thinking and beliefs.
=some people maybe influence by others so their thinking also will be different.
=they have no actual information about religion
=different religions have differents beliefs
=each person defines God and spiritually as well as religion differently.

After watching the video, give three examples of how we will recruit a suicide bomber?

- most of them are having stress and think in a negative way

They have too much problems and do not get support from their parents and peers.
- influence of environment and lack of love
They may influenced by the surroundings which encourage violence in their countries and always use violence to solve problems.
- influence of religion
Some of them are having misunderstandings of their religion and they get to the wrong path and kill themselves.

Michelle Ting's Answer

(1)Disadvantages of religion are:
-causes people to fight against each other because they believe that their own religion is the only true one (example: Israel and the middle east)
-Require people to take time off and analyze the religion, thus decreasing productivity
-Prevents scientific research because it is often the opposite of the teachings of a religious text (example: Darwinism and creationism)
-Acts as a limitation (e.g. Jehovah's witness followers have to refuse life saving blood transfusions or, Muslims cannot consume pork which is a cheap source of protein)
-A religion's law maybe different from a country's law.

(2)How does religion unite people:
-Discourages evil doing amongst believers, thus creating a 'nicer' society (example: Islam tells its believers to cut off the hands of those who steal)
-Discourages fighting amongst a religion's own believers (example: Romans 4 : do not fight with other christians)
-Gives people a common factor, thus increasing the feeling of requirement of a person to do good deeds in the name of the religion
-Removes other barriers that render people unable to blend together (ae: race, colour)
-having the same idea and opinion of unite

(3)How can people interpret religion differently:
-Different feelings at the time of analysis of religious text (how you feel will affect your judgement. Example: the book of Mormons is derived from the translation of glyphs supposedly found by its founder, John Smith)
-No literal meaning to many religious text, leading to multiple translations. (example: while christians believe that Jesus is the savior mentioned in the book of Isiah and Joel, many Jews do not believe so.)
-The interpretation of a religious text is often submitted to the ability of the interpreter's resources at the time of interpretation
-Different settings at time of interpretation of text
-The possibility of the interpreter providing false information

michelle_hii's Answer

1. What are the disadvantages of religions?

• Too much competition within the church.

• Too much self promotion and showing off.

• Making it like a club status and everyone must meet a certain criteria to help or even fit in.

• Too many self-righteous groups that leave out some of the people due to their economical status-quo in a community.

• Too many programs that are not effective for everyone.

2. How can religions unite people?

• by believing their God

• celebrate the religious festival together

• participate in activities organized with them

• having the same aim to achieve it together

• giving moral support to each other
  

3. How can people interpret religion differently?

• Belief in something sacred (for example, gods or other supernatural beings).

• A moral code believed to have a sacred or supernatural basis
  

• Prayer and other forms of communication with the supernatural.
  

• some emphasize the personal, others the social; some the beliefs, others the uses; some the structures, others the functions; some the private, others the public; some the mundane, others the transcendent; some the truth, others the illusion.

• Someone belongs to a religious community if the person believes in that religion.

gRace's answer

1. What are the disadvantages of religions?

• It divides when it is supposed to unite. Many wars have been waged because everyone has a diferrent name for basically the same God. Only the Metaphors are different.
• People who are evil use the church to cover up their badness. That is, it's part of their pretense. Outwardly they appear to be Christians, for example, because they go to church. But on the inside, they are far from it.
• there is discrimination and different ways of teaching in schools.
• lack of multicultural awareness.
• cultural destructions will happen due to different view of different religions.

2. How can religions unite people?

• united by the love of the God
• religions put people into categories on the basis of caste, colour and creed.
  
• through activities organized. (eg. camp)
• through festival visiting
• they have the same thought and will aim for the same things

3. How can people interpret religions differently?

• Different levels of education, understanding and training may lead one person to hear it one way, and someone else, another.
• All people are different, their experiences will be different and hence their religious ideas will be different.
• Communication is a difficult task, even when the backgrounds, language, culture and shared experiences of the people communicating are identical. When various differences are thrown into the mix, misunderstandings multiply.
• different religions have different point of view
• have week sense of religion and make them interpret religion differently