… theme for this year’s voice of democracy essay contest. Of all of the freedom’s we have, religious freedom is the most important right any human can hold. Freedom of religion is many things to many people. To one, it is the right of a United…

… 600 B.C. in India. Since then, it has spread throughout the world, to each country and into each culture. As the Buddha, he accomplished many amazing tasks throughout his life, and touched the lives of people everywhere. Siddhartha Gautama was…

… puts it, “He had significant intellectual gifts; yet he showed, beyond intelligence, a wisdom to search out the deep secrets of the mysteries of God.” It was no surprise that Basil grew up to be an excellent ambassador for Catholicism. His family…

… of the asravas. The asrava’s are what binds a person and keeps them ignorant. The root of suffering is ignorance, therefore, the third watch had the largest impact on the Buddha. By meditating on the dependant co-arising witch feeds the asrava,…

… Testament Prophecied Messiah When we look at the most significant people throughout history, one name seems to clearly stand out. That person is Jesus Christ. ¡°Jesus of Nazareth. No other name has inspired greater devotion, evoked greater reverence,…

… lives? Religion has been described as a belief in god.... Belief that is without any reason except that god is there to be worshiped than to be questioned. But another meaning of the word could be the belief of a person in his own self, and has nothing…

… man cannot do without some kind of religion and that he is too weak intrinsically to manage his affairs without taking recourse to some imaginary deities. Life, it is contended, is full of loneliness, burdened with problems, failures and disasters,…

… in our search for happiness, where does our attention normally turn? It turns towards the phenomena of the creation and its material objects. Through these, he says, none of us have ever attained lasting peace and happiness, nor will we ever do so. H…

… Everything that a teacher does is colored by the philosophy he/she holds. Every philosophy has at least the three following elements: ontology-what is real, epistemology-what is true, and axiology-what is of value (good) ethics. So what exactly do…

… if you prefer, I have had occasion to ask myself this difficult question many, many times. With the recent political controversy over the United States Army permitting pagan services to be held on military bases in Texas and around the world, the…