141信仰不信仰 请拍o(∩_∩)o

theopenwindow

141 It is more harmful to compromise one's own beliefs than to adhere to them.

Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position.

提纲：
（+）坚持信仰的好处，让我们有自己观念来看待世界，不会迷失。
（-）极端的坚持信仰，会沦为工具，人是信仰的工具，信仰成为政治的工具。
（+）理性对待信仰


In this world today, a lot of people, includeing many great human leaders, are all averring that the world is a planet lack of belief, and we should reconstuct our belief. However, what really should come to our mind is not the simple question whether to adher to or compromise one's beliefe is more beneficial. What' on earth our belief and why we believe it are really crucial.


Admittedly that sticking to belief is very important to the degree that belief is the way with which we are considering the world and how we view incidents around us. Without a certain and clear belief, one may get lost how to explain what's happening. Especially in the rich material world, without strong belief, where to go is really a big problem. Imagine, how a person lack of belief will confront things around him(supposed to be a guy). For example, when he saw Jastin Bieber became one of the most famous singers at such a young age, fame, brightness, money and admiration from others represent one's success in his eyes. Then he'll get yourself to try every effort to be a singer or something else in the bright stage where you consider a resource of fame and richness. When you see a news that after helping an old woman slipping down to get up, the gentle young man was accuted of harming somebody deliberately and got published, you think that to be a nice guy is not wise, and you start to become a callous one in the world. Like all said above, one, who has no belief and cannot judge rightness from fault, will get strayed in what are happening in the image, but never try to ask why, never retrospect his spirit to find the answer. Never consider what brings success to Lady Gaga, what success means to himself, and why there appears such being who returned evil for good. But if one has belief, all this will be questions in the mind, and adhering to the belif of himself, he can find his own answer, but never give up to what the image tells him. And even we can imagine a society, a country filled with such people without belief, the whole value system will collapse as a terrible result.


Now, you can see how important owning a belief means to us, even to a whole society. But can we simplly conclude that sticking to one's belief will surely be less harmeful than to compromising it? Let's talk about the same question after getting back to history of religional wars, especially the Crusades for example. The military arms of the Roman Empeor invaded large land and other countries which didn't the share the same belief with Rome. People got murdered, and the serene Muslim World get distorted and got in in huge disaster because of Roman's adhering to their belief. We can see this is an example of extremely adhering to the belif, even forcing others to belief what they don’t trust. However , invaders forgot the instinct truth of Christ, to love, to tolerent, to the opposite, they brought sins in the name of 'adhering to belief'. At this case, the belief became a tool of politic but never the real method to consider the world. So that is absolutely to haste to the conclusion adhering to belief is beneficial.


So how after all should we consider the 'belief'. First we need be clear that so called belief is not a simple shape, an image, but a kind of mind with which you agree. A clear belief never comes to the world once one was born. Even the one is a christan because of the family, only after you know what god means in the <Bamble> and believe such a way to explain the world,this can really become your belief. In the life, every one is experincing many things, happiness,sadness, fortrune and bad luck. Through every step, we will have a chance to respect our belief and meditate over and over. So a really belief can be checked by the reality, but never be forced to trust. We can't own a belief just to adhere to the belief , or we will be the tool of the 'belief'.


Above all, what's essential to be answered is not the question whether to compromise or to adhere to, but we should clear what the real belief is and be ratianl to it. Only in this way can we find a real place for ourselves in the world and have a true perspective to observe the world.

竹林中人

这个题该怎么发散比较好，我一直没想好，关于这个relief我们要怎么去具体化呢？

theopenwindow

所以我就把Lady Gaga，恩将仇报的老太太和十字军东征都吆喝出来了，不知道前两个放在第一部分的论述里，读者会不会觉得牵强，自己写的就判断不好这个论述力度如何

theopenwindow

嗯！确实是很好的修正和充实，你提的第三点还是对上一段很好的补充和反思~~确实不错噢