Essay-Religion - Rogelio Manríquez Cobián

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Rogelio Manríquez Cobián
English 6 
Essay about Religion
Religion is a set of postulates, images and verbal stories and / or written with their corresponding cultural practices and rituals about the Divine origin of men and the world. The general meaning of these postulates, images and stories is that men can join, integrate or link to the being that once gave life to the first men, to their ancestors originals And so give them the double possibility of joining or integrating to that being that gave life to their ancestors and to integrate or join together as descendants common of those original ancestors created by him. And the best way to to live integrated to him is to attribute a permanent or eternal life so that he canalways be present in their lives, well only if men feel that they are present in their lives, which is real in the temporary course of their existences, can join him. And by feeling in common that presence in their lives they unite with each other to their around; fact that they insure, reinforce and renew periodically by rendering together worship, where they manifest their veneration and practicing together and also in a regular way certain rites in which they offer the best of themselves or of your assets.
 This means that the original divine being, by offering them the possibility of integrate around you, gives you the possibility to integrate into eternal life that has; that is, it offers them the possibility of suppressing once in their lives what that they lack to be able to live, the lack of the conditions and the means needed to permanently ensure that life, and thus preserve it from indefinitely in time. As it is a complete and complete being, a being that It is not lacking because it is always present at all times of the time, it offers men the possibility of accessing their own fullness of its existence. This possibility offered by the divine being to integrate with him is, then, basically, the possibility of always living without the suffering that naturally causes them those faults and shortcomings that they have in their real lives, is to say, to live free of the sufferings that naturally never desire or crave live or suffer.
Religion, and especially Christianity, has always been in relation to the sociocultural environment in which they live. Today, it appears characterized by secularization, the techno-scientific picture of the world and cultural postmodernism. Despite its failure to adapt to this situation,the religion survives as precategorial "lived world", great stop for humans in a pluralistic, globalized, emotional and moralizing sociocultural context that keeps the question of the meaning of life. Man as a symbolic animal clings to religious experience.
What is the situation of the world today in its relationship with religion? The question is raised by the fact that, for many decades, the current image and order of time in the world are being dissolved under pressure of profound changes, as happened in other eras. The power of change places religious man before a new world that demands a new way of relating to him. Historians used the word revolution to name historical episodes of bloody and violent change. But this is not the case. However, our time could be labeled as revolutionary. While the absence of tragic wars and relative world peace reduce the label of revolution to profound sociocultural change.
Religion, in this case, accumulates educated in a world reconverted welfare society in which information facilitates the disappearance of the mystery leaving faith senseless and the primacy of selfishness detracts from commitments to others. 
Life centered on now immediately the meaning of the event fades and existence runs as the road to nowhere, as a fragmented life.
To sum up, the fact that beliefs endure does not mean that religious practices will survive as they are known today, because culture is transformed and belief, as part of that culture, will also be transformed. Beliefs change and pluralize, giving themselves increasingly "believers without belonging". I think that beliefs should not disappear because spirituality is a man's need, because more than half of the world's population (57%) declares themselves to be believers in some religion, with the poorest countries identifying themselves as the most believers and only 14% of the world's population having no religion, claiming not to believe in nothing.