Essay Course 10

BRAINSTORMING:

Religious beliefs and life´s hope, freedom religious and laws, how the decisions of parents affect their children.

Chosen Idea: Religious beliefs and life´s hope.

I chose this idea, because I think some religious beliefs, disagree with the topic of human integrity, life´s quality and preservation or protection of the life. Because of this situation, could lose inocent lives, for example, parents involves in their beliefs and ignore all ways and options that they have to improve the quality of live or save the life of their children.

EXPLANATION MAIN IDEA:

Often, the topics of health and beliefs are disagree. One reason is because in the religious level, the trend is leave all things and all decisions in God´s hand, but in the medical level the main objective is to save the life above all things, but some religious groups forget, that they must do their human part (like go to the doctor and ask for help), and God does the divine part (for example, a miracle).  Because of that, sometimes loss the life of many people, and if they leave their beliefs only for a moment, would save many lives.

For example, the members of the religion “Jehovah´s witnesses” don’t receive blood of other person because according to a verse in the old testament of their bible, Jesus said that can´t receive blood of another soul, and neither can´t eat any food cooked whit animal´s blood. Similarly with other religions, for example some people is disagree with organ donation because they believe in the flesh resurrection and with that, all our organs must to resuscitate, as well for that, many people decrease the probability to save or help other lives.

I think this people ought to, stop and think a little about their ideas, and to realize if their thinking was another, and if they leave a little of their beliefs, might to save many lives.

Is for the previous reasons, that some religious beliefs can  decrease life´s hope in some people, as may be, in the life of their children or their relatives, because reject any medical treatment that could save their lives or,  just do the doctor´s job more difficult.

Javier Sábata, is a Spanish philosopher, enter at debate between religion and health, stating than the religion (beliefs, faith) and the reason (science) are opposites, and for he, religion, beliefs and faith are property of the private space of each person, but the people insist in interfere with this beliefs in the public space (Sábata, 2009).  This affirmation is true in some situations, for example, when the parents interfered with their beliefs in the doctor´s job.

Finally, I think that this debate between religion beliefs and health will be open for a long time and will be difficult to research some agreement between both topics.