Religion of the Heathen (Book Review Sample)
If everyone could use reason when they think, there would be no need for guessing why one sensation followed another. If we smell smoke, we don't have to guess that there is a fire somewhere because the words "fire" and "smoke" will already be connected by a rule, one causes the other. It's when we don't think scientifically that we are led into guessing, and making up connections between our sensations that may not be true. One easy way to explain things that we don't scientifically understand is to say that an invisible cause made it happen. And if what happened seems to make us happy, and we want to have it happen again, we may think that the invisible cause did it to make us happy, and we need to do something to make the invisible cause to do it again. Now we have Religion. What does Hobbes say are the "designs of the authors of the religion of the heathen"? What did these "authors" (the ones who made up the stories about the invisible causes and how to make them do things we like) want to accomplish? Were they trying to be helpful? Were their stories always helpful
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Introduction
The chapter describes the existing differences between religion and manners. People are never contented and therefore always seek for wealth, power, and prosperity. This essay seeks to find out about the authors ideologies about the designs of religion of heathen. Furthermore, it will address the significance of the chapter in relation to religion.
The author states that religion essentially has its background only in men. First he states that the design of religion is people’s desire or anticipation of knowing root causes of things and situations. People are inquisitive into the causes of situations and events they experience to explain the causes of their evil or good fortune. Secondly, from people’s consideration of the inception of things makes them think that there must be a cause that initiated the thing. The natural cause of religion is anxiety of the future. From the anticipation of the unknown future, people endeavor to secure themselves against the evils they fear as well as procure the good they anticipate and not to be in a perpetual solicitude of the future. Being anxious about the future makes individuals fear the strength or power of the unknown and invisible things. They perceive them as incorporeal, and they do not know how they influence things, but they still honor them as they do to men. Moreover, the author adds that the four things make up the ori...
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