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Belief System

This document discusses religious belief systems and worldviews. It states that religion consists of a sacred set of beliefs that form a coherent and comprehensive system that addresses major human concerns. It provides examples of common religious beliefs like belief in God, immortal souls, and universal justice. The document also notes that a worldview encompasses a wide range of phenomena and concerns, like the meaning of life, death, the origins and end of the world, ethics, and humanity's place in the world.

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Belief System

This document discusses religious belief systems and worldviews. It states that religion consists of a sacred set of beliefs that form a coherent and comprehensive system that addresses major human concerns. It provides examples of common religious beliefs like belief in God, immortal souls, and universal justice. The document also notes that a worldview encompasses a wide range of phenomena and concerns, like the meaning of life, death, the origins and end of the world, ethics, and humanity's place in the world.

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Give an example of a belief system or

worldview (HUMSS_WRB12I/IIIa-1.1)
Religion is the pursuit of
transformation guided by a sacred
belief system.
Motivational Activity:

In the context of religion, the learners will list down 10


things they believe in by completing the following
statements. They will observe their own belief system.
1.I believe in/that
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2.I believe in/that
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3.I believe in/that
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4.I believe in/that
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5.I believe in/that
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6.I believe in/that
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7.I believe in/that
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8.I believe in/that
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9.I believe in/that
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10.I believe in/that
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Religion contains a worldview.
worldview - refers to a set of beliefs that is both coherent
and comprehensive.
Examples of religious beliefs:
 are the beliefs that humans have immortal souls.
that there is a God or gods.
 there is universal justice in the world in which wrongdoings
shall be appropriately punished and good deeds shall be
appropriately rewarded, if not in this world, in the afterlife.
First, religion consists of beliefs.
Beliefs generally refer to assertions, claims, or
thoughts about things that are held to be true.
Beliefs are, strictly speaking, mental states that
advance claims or knowledge about the world,
and are expressible in the form of statements
(or propositions).
Second, a set of beliefs forms a system when these beliefs
are coherent; and they are coherent when they are
consistently interrelated.
Being interrelated, the beliefs in a system influence or affect
one another.
For instance, the belief that humans are free and thus are
accountable for their actions is related to the belief that there is
universal justice; or the belief that human life is sacred, as it is
a creation of God or animated by a soul, is related to the ethical
principle that it is wrong to destroy a human life.
Belief system
 is comprehensive when it accounts for a wide
range of phenomena (or events in the world) or
when it deals with a wide range of human
concerns.
Religious belief systems are comprehensive
in this light for they address a wide range of
human concerns.
For instance, they address concerns about :
what makes life meaningful?
 what happens after death?
 how the world began and how it would end?
 how humans ought to deal with one another?
 why there are various human races and languages?
how humans ought to regard their natural environment or its
nonhuman members?
 what is the right attitude towards wealth, authorities,
spouses, money, sex, worries, knowledge, sufferings, and so
many others.
• A set of beliefs that is not comprehensive is not a
worldview.

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