Pick one of your GCSE/IB subjects...
What sorts of 'knowledge' and/or 'truths' does this subject convey?
I chose my GCSE Humanities subject, Religious Studies, to answer this question. Religious Studies (in short form, RS) reveals to us the differences and similarities between cultures and religions. We explore their beliefs, morality and ethnicity.
In this course, I studied Hinduism and Christianity. It is quite funny how two different religions based on the same general concept (the belief in supreme power) can be so diverse when it comes to worshipping, thinking, and ‘the way of life’.
I believe that RS is all based on prepositional knowledge. After all, the teachings of Christianity are all based on the bible. Religion is just, let’s say, a group to assist and guide you along one of the many paths to living life. There is no ‘truth’ and there is no ‘correct way’. In religions, everything is based on faith and personal beliefs.
To put it crudely, I think that the ‘truth’ in RS is that every religious person has a different concept to ‘what religious truth is’.
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But if everyone has a 'personal' belief, which one do you think would be the right one? Is there a right one in the first place?
Interesting Andrea and thanks to Shivani for a very interesting post. Is RS all propositional? Where did you learn right from wrong? And having learnt it why did you not always do the right thing?(Sorry Andrea I am assuming that you have done wrong things!)Have some religions got it wrong?
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