Chapter 4 Culture and Religion

Q: How would you define the appeal of the religious/cultural traditions discussed in this chapter? To
what groups were they attractive, and why?

Personally I am Catholic but I am not sure that any religion appeals to me. For the sake of the blog I will do the best I can describing what I find as "appealing" in the chapter. I do want to start by saying that I do believe in God being a higher power, but I do not believe in symbolism worship. I worship the most high, not material things or material symbols. This is where I believe some issues within religions arise. Christians seemed to be the most unorganized religion discussed in this chapter. Due to geography and doctrinal differences, this actually makes sense to me. I do think the geography and subtle differences allow Christianity to be more attractive or appealing. For those who can become a part of a Christian Church, location is key and it seemed like Christians covered a lot of ground for their followers. We also learn late in the chapter that Christianity also conducted an internal hierarchy system to keep affairs in order. Whether that system later became corrupt is for another post.  Buddhism was a topic that caught my eye in this chapter. I do like how Buddhism tried to never resort to conflict or violence even during disagreements. I do believe that this would be very appealing especially when Christianity kind of has a history of conflict. The expansion of the Orthodox churches is a perfect example of how Christianity differed and how these differences let to conflict.

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