1. What religion do you practice and how did you come to practice it?

2. The frequency and types of prayer the person engages in?

3. How often do you worship? Why do you worship? What do you preform during your
worship services?
4. What do you believe is the best lesson your religion teaches?
5. What do you most disagree with about your religion, if anything?
6. What is one thing about your religion that affects your daily life and family
life?
7. What does your faith teach about the nature of God or ultimate reality?
8. What does your faith teach about the truth of the human person? (ex. You are not
who you think you are.)
9. What does your religion teach about the nature of the world?
10. What is your favorite religious text or passage? What is one story/message from
this text that you remember having a strong impact on yourself?
11. Do you try to tell others about your religion? How might someone better
understand your faith? In your opinion, what is the most common misconception about
their faith?
12. Areas where your faith comes into conflict with modern culture?
13. Have you ever questioned your faith?
14. How are you raising you children in this faith, if you have any?
15. What are your beliefs on the after life?

SERVICE QUESTIONS:
16. What does your religion require or encourage regarding service to the
community? What do you do? Why is this service work an important expectation in
your religion?
17. Some examples of how your religious community benefits from providing service
to those in need.
18. What kinds of attitudes, values and behaviors does your religious culture
encourage?
19. What are some elements of service that your community might be neglecting?
20. Ways to serve that you would like to explore in the future.

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example:

What is your name? First name is fine. Melanie

1. What religion do you practice and how did you come to practice it? I am a
Methodist Christian - I used to be Roman Catholic. I love many aspects of
Catholicism but I have a bit of a problem with the doctrine of papal infallibility.
2. The frequency and types of prayer the person engages in? I pray a couple of
times a day, casually. I pray more formally in church, especially on communion
Sundays.
3. How often do you worship? Why do you worship? What do you preform during your
worship services? My family attends church once a week. We enjoy the messages from
the pastor and appreciate what he teaches, the music, and the fellowship with other
Christians. We sing hyms, listen to our bell choir and regular choirs, and we have
a beautiful pipe organ that is pretty impressive. We put a lot of focus on children
in our services as well, and I really like that.
4. What do you believe is the best lesson your religion teaches? Love God and love
your neighbor as yourself.
5. What do you most disagree with about your religion, if anything? I don't have
any disagreements about it.
6. What is one thing about your religion that affects your daily life and family
life? We make family decisions based on Christian principles. We also give money
and time to causes that are generally religion based.
7. What does your faith teach about the nature of God or ultimate reality? God is
totally holy and omnipotent.
8. What does your faith teach about the truth of the human person? (ex. You are not
who you think you are.) We are children of God and made in His image.
9. What does your religion teach about the nature of the world? The world is made
to glorify God.

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Questions on Religion
What is religion?
We define religion as a system of symbols, beliefs and practices focused on
questions of ultimate meaning.
According to Durkheim, what are the elements of religion?
Durkheim observed that all religions divide the world into sacred and special realm
and a profane or ordinary realm. He suggested that society itself is the true
object of worship and that various cultures develop various symbolic
representations of society.
What are the functions of religion?
Religion functions to promote social solidarity strengthen the normative structure
of the community mark life events and explain life's uncertainties.
How is religion related to social conflict?
Religion also contributes to bitter and often bloody conflict and a tool of
exploitation. Elites use religion to justify their exploitation of the masses and
to distract the masses from awareness of this exploitation. As Marx and Engel have
shown religion often helps sustain social class inequality which eventually leads
to revolution. Religious groups often fight and divide. Religious figures are
frequently found at the front of social movements such as those for civil rights,
peace, nuclear disarmament and liberation from the tyranny of dictators.

What are the types of religion?

The various types of religions hold various objects to be sacred and or
supernatural. In simple supernaturalism an impersonal force of nature is regarded
as sacred whereas in animism the sacred resides in spirits of the animals and
natural phenomena.Totemism is a form of animism in which an animal or plant is
worshipped as a god and ancestor. Theistic religions focus attention on a sacred
god or gods. Ethical religions focus on principles held to be sacred.
What are the types of religious organizations?
Religious organizations tend to fall into four types.Ecclesias are state supported
whereas denominations are not and must compete with other religious organizations
emphasizing lay leadership and a return to the true beliefs of the dominant
religion. Cults are often small but they are distinguished primarily with a claim
to new revelation often made by a charismatic leader.
What have sociologists learned about cults?
Cults typically have not become large denominations. The public is extremely wary
about the acts carried out by some cults.
How has religion become politicized?
Religious leaders increasingly take political positions.
What is animism?
It is a belief that the sacred and resides in spirits found in people and other
natural phenomena, such as wind and the rain.
What is a cult?
Cult is a religious organization that claims a unique new revelation.
What are ethical religions?
Religions that do not worship a god as such but rather promote a moral code or
belief.
What are religious symbols?
Objects, images and words that take meaning from sacred things that they represent
and that may become sacred themselves after repeated assoc.

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Does God exist?

Objections to the existence of God
Notes or features of God
Does the soul exist? Is it immortal?
Objections to the souls existence and immortality
1) Objection: Nothing immaterial exists in man
2) Objection: the soul isnt immortal
Are all religions good, Are all true?
Is the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ a historical fact?
Is Jesus Christ God?
Has Jesus science some limits? Did Jesus know everything?
Does heaven exist?
Does hell exist?
Does purgatory exist?
Origin of the Church: who founded it?
Power and the Church
The soul of the Church. Must one belong to the Church in order to be saved?
The authority and the subjects in the Church
Are the Ten Commandments a bond? Must one follow them in order to be saved?
Does sin exist?
Is the faith without deeds enough to be saved?
The miracles. Do they exist?
Is the Holy Shroud genuine?
Is the Blessed Virgin Gods mother?
Is the Blessed Virgin our mother?
Had Jesus any brothers and sisters?
The right wage. Is the market wage always the right wage?
The right price. Is the market price always the right price?
Aid to the poor. Is it a mortal sin to not always help them?
Theft in case of necessity
Is it necessary to avoid overpopulation in order to feed everyone?
Does reincarnation exist?
Does the man come from the ape?
The errors of Jehovahs Witnesses
Can moral law change?
Homosexuality
Freemasonry
May divorced people, living irregularly together, receive communion?
Must one imitate Nature?
On why women cannot be priests
Marxist Communism
Can a Christian be a Marxist? (as in the case of some liberation theologians and of
Christians for socialism)
Abortion
Does an objective moral order exist?
A comment to the sentence: Nothing is good or bad, there are only things that are
good or bad for you
Why does evil exist? Does it come from God?
Relationship between love of God and love of our neighbour
Divine Providence
Is our Lord Jesus Christ really present in the Eucharist?
A Miracle on The Eucharist
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(* answers based on reason, common sense and Catholic faith)