Volume 10, Issue 1 , December 2021, , Pages 115-136
Abstract
One of the fundamental social changes in the modern world is the decline of religiosity and believing in God. Numerous factors contribute to this retreat of the sea of faith. An important factor in this event is the family; which has usually attracted little attention. Statistical and sociological ...
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One of the fundamental social changes in the modern world is the decline of religiosity and believing in God. Numerous factors contribute to this retreat of the sea of faith. An important factor in this event is the family; which has usually attracted little attention. Statistical and sociological evidences prove the idea that the atheism is tied to this important factor. This article examines this question in a descriptive-analytical manner that if the family is so important and its decline leads to the decline of believing in God, why is that? By examining different probabilities and speculations through statistical and sociological data, it has reached this result that nonmarriage, life without children, freedom from family bondage, theoretical or practical atheism of parents, absence of father at home and contradiction of religious treatment of parents have a great role in turning away all members of the family, especially children from God and religion.
Meaning of life is an important topic in philosophy, ethics, biological philosophy, philosophy of religion sand psychology. Although this topic is new and appeared after Modernism, it has a long history in theistic religions and is associated with the issue of human being, his life and the world have ...
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Meaning of life is an important topic in philosophy, ethics, biological philosophy, philosophy of religion sand psychology. Although this topic is new and appeared after Modernism, it has a long history in theistic religions and is associated with the issue of human being, his life and the world have an ultimate end and this world is the best world. The ‘meaningful’ is a central concept in the ‘meaning of life’ discussion, and includes many cognitional, tendentious and functional aspects. These aspects are interwoven, and meaningfulness or un-meaningfulness depends on them. Each aspect has some superabundant, visible and invisible results. Some of cognitional, tendentious and functional signs and outputs of meaningful life are: proper justification of evils and hardships, hope, self esteem, amenability, optimism, tranquility.
