Numinous can cause people to believe in god as they think that they have seen, spoken or even touch a God like person. This gives the person proof that a person who looks over exists and may cause them to believe in them. If I saw a “vision” of a person that was how I imagined God to be like I would start to believe in Christianity. A numinous can be a very powerful cause of a belief. Many people do not trust the people who have seen these numinous and people just say they have seen God may not convince others that there is a God creation and all the other things in the bible. The human nature needs to see proof to believe in an idea, that is why the sciences were created to explain and give people the proof they need to be able to believe in an idea.
Conversions are when a person changes a religious belief. Many things can cause conversion. Mostly are caused by the environment around a person. Friends from a different religion can make a person change their religion or convert them. Children are also force fed their religion by their parents, school. These people force the individual into their religion and not let them have choice it the religion they believe in. The child grows up and they have their own choice in these matters they many think that their religion is wrong, they then have no religion and then find one to find what they like. Many priests try to convert people to their religion by preaching to them if the priest succeeds in converting someone the priest has led an individual to believe in God.
Miracles are many of the reasons that people start to believe in God. They believe that the action they just saw was a sign, message or miracle caused by God. This proves to the person in question that there is a God looking down on us and starts to go to church and believe in a religion and God. People like numinous do not believe the person who has seen the miracle as they fell that there is no proof that they really saw a miracle.
Prayer is part of a religion but it is the way many people believe that they communicate with God. Prayer can be a way to reflect and talk to God about the way you live your life. This constant talking with a so-called God who the person paying to may not believe in him but this constant paying may change their view and led them to God.
“Religious beliefs enrich human beings and the communities they live in”
Religious create and enrich the world around us. Whole cultures have been built on religious beliefs. Religion affects everything around us from the builds we live in to the government that looks after the county we live in. Schools are one of the most heavily affected areas of our world that is influenced by religion. Religion enriches our lives by tell us what we can be taut at school what we do and many other things. Religion gives people something to live for, it gives them purpose in life, something to live for. For the community religion is what the community is built around, the church is mostly the centre point for a village town or any other settlement.
Religion can also separate a community and divide humans. Many things, much of it by people’s religious beliefs, course racism. I have heard of whole communities being split by religious beliefs. Much conflict and wars are over religious beliefs. Killing many people this killing causes huge distress for people. Terrorists are caused by religious wars and then events like 9/11 are caused killing many people and spreading terror.
I feel that religious believe do enrich people’s lives if it is a passive belief. Also if people are sensible and allow people to have their own beliefs and not complain that it is different to their own.
