Philosophy of World Religions

Question: Discuss about thePhilosophy of World Religions. Answer: Introduction In all cultures there are many stories passed on from one generation to the next. These stories are mostly myths. Myths are basically stories that are relevant to a particular culture and are used to convey stories of mythical events or people. The stories have a way of evoking and stirring emotions in people. The stories are debatable in terms of their correlation to truth and most of them are either completely false or an exaggeration of the actual truth. I have gone through two interesting websites that cover many stories on myths. These include The Ultimate History Project and Ancient History Encyclopedia. The two cover stories that happen to be fascinating, the tale of two Easters and the history of the culture referred to as the Hittite culture. This of course is a matter of personal opinion and my take on the websites and how they have set out to convey the stories to the world and preserve the myths. The Hittite culture is associated with the people who had settled in what is Turkey in the modern world. They are considered as having been major foes of the Israelites in the biblical times. The website is very informative and offers many insights. I have myself not encountered the narrative before but I can totally relate. The importance of the dates is very ideal in as far as rending credibility to the story is concerned. The dates give the story history significance as well. The aspect that grasps my attention is the difficulty of the perceived translation of texts from Anatolia. This baffles me as all pre-historic languages have found their way into present texts but this particular language seems to have escaped the attention of scholars the world over. The tale of two Easters is a slightly different narrative although equally intriguing. The story has its origins in ancient England where we had a king and his queen who observed different forms of Christianity. The end result was that there was and remains doubts on the right date for the Easter celebrations that mark the death and resurrection of Christ. The story is still new to me. As a Christian, I have grown up knowing that there is only one date for Easter. This new revelation definitely makes it a little bit more interesting. The role of myths in demystifying religion has definitely been questioned in my case by these two new narratives. The myths are good for history and I believe they have a role to play in society and the socialization process. Through such stories, we are able to associate closer to the truth of religion. Both stories help to create a distinction what may be considered as sacred in religion or deemed as being profane. The two websites I have picked have offered great insights. My choice was guided by the fact that they also offer content relating to other topics making them authoritative websites. This also means that they are relatively credible and one can rely on the amount of research that has gone into the two stories and their presentation. References Ancient History Enclyclopedia. (2017) Hittites. https://www.ancient.eu/hittite/ Collins, B. J. (2007).The Hittites and their world. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature. The Ultimate History Project (2017) East Meets West: The Two Easters. https://www.ultimatehistoryproject.com/easter-controversy.htmlTop of For Van, M. D. K. W. (2009).Humanism in an Age of Science: The Amsterdam Athenaeum in the Golden Age, 1632-1704. Leiden: BRILL.