Rosiah binti Omar

Week 3- Religions and Superstitions

I think that I agree with Karl Marx. Religion guides us to stay on the right track. There is no religion who taught their follower to become evil, thief, rapist, or murderer. Religion is a very important aspects in our life, without religion we will lost and don’t have any aims or goals for our life. However, in the case of Umuofia, I think their native religion stunts their development because they seem to follow what their ancestor’s believe. They don’t want to take any paradigm shift towards their life and religion. If they can think better, their life would be more valuable.

            The new religion which is Christianity, had brought the changes and development to Umuofia. All the people in Umuofia can think before taking any actions or decisions. As the new religion came, they banned all the things that not good for themselves, for example, before the Christianity came, they killed the twin baby but now they can accept the twin baby in their community.

            I think that superstitions and religions affect the development of a country because that set of belief help to sustain positive aspects of individual behaviour that enhance productivity. The new religion also creates the human capital who have many good behaviour and positive thinking.

            One’s belief affects the nation in terms of politics and culture because one’s can change the whole world only using his mind and power. They can spread the bad propaganda and slander about someone or something that can affects others.