World History Lesson 5

1. ANGELIQUE PAULA JOYCE L. DIGNOS
T-II

2. FIX ME
GAME!
INSTUCTION: Arrange the jumbled letters and
give its definition/explanation

3. IABMPST

4. BAPTISM
- IS A CHRISTIAN
SACRAMENT OF
INITIATION &
ADOPTION

5. AIIGGLMNSV

6. ALMSGIVING
-the practice of giving money,
a witness to fraternal charity.
A work of justice pleasing
God.

7. AAADMNR

8. RAMADAN
- 9th month of the
Muslim calendar. One
of the most sacred
times for muslims

9. AIST

10. SATI
Hinduism tradition, it
refers to the ritual
suicide/killing of
women, especially
widows, following their
husbands’ death

11. POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE
EFFECTS OF RELIGION

12. OBJECTIVES
▪Identify the effects of religion: positive and negative;
▪Provide evidence that religion brought about an event
in history; and
▪Explain that religion can have positive or negative
effects on society.

14. Each group are given 5-8 minutes to prepare. Analyze and discuss with your groupmates the
message of the song. In your cartolina, do the ff. task per group. Paste a collage pictures about the
positive and negative effects of religion.
After 5-8minutes, each group representative will present their output promptly.
▪ GROUP 1: Discuss and write 5 possible consequences if there’s no religion.
Write 5 positive effects of religion.
▪ GROUP 2: Discuss and write 5 possible consequences if there’s no religion.
Write 5 positive effects of religion.
▪ GROUP 3: Discuss and write 5 possible consequences if there’s no religion.
Write 5 positive effects of religion.
▪ GROUP 4: Discuss and write 5 possible consequences if there’s no religion.
Write 5 negative Effects of religion.
▪ GROUP 5: Discuss and write 5 possible consequences if there’s no religion.
Write 5 negative effects of religion.
▪ GROUP 6: Discuss and write 5 possible consequences if there’s no religion.
Write 5 negative effects of religion.

15. mins

16. ➢POSSIBLE CONSEQUENCES IF
THERE’S NO RELIGION
➢POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE
EFFECTS OF RELIGION

17. POSITIVE EFFECTS OF
RELIGION

18. Religion Promotes Social Harmony
▪ Religion believes in supernatural beings and powers.
▪ It practices a set of rituals and ceremonies rites of passage
and rites of intensification.
▪ It also regards religious leaders such as priests, priestesses,
and shaman in high esteem.
▪ These characteristics help advance social harmony by
assimilating and stabilizing cultures and nations.
▪ EXAMPLE
▪ In ancient Philippine society, spiritual leaders were called
babaylanes whose function was to intercede between the deities
and the people; they act as healers and cultural leaders of the
community

19. Religion Provides Moral Values
▪ By providing moral values, one is able to distinguish right
from wrong, good from evil.
▪ It also provides a system of reward and punishment that
administers and standardizes people’s behavior in society.
▪ EXAMPLE
▪ In ancient societies, before planting, farmers would perform a kind
of ritual, led by their spiritual leaders to ask for blessings from the
deities so that their harvest would be bountiful.
▪ When calamity destroyed their crops, they would interpret it as a
sign that they must have done something wrong which displeased
the deities, they would again perform a ritual to appease them.

20. Religion Provides Social Change
▪ In the Philippines much credit has been given the Catholic Church for
the success of the People Power Revolution in 1986 when Archbishop
Cardinal Sin urged the people to join the protest rally to oust the
dictator, former president Ferdinand Marcos.
▪ Another example would be Gandhi’s satyagraha or passive resistance,
which paved the way for India’s independence from the British in the
20th century.
▪ Satyagraha advocates the belief that nonviolence of the mind can lead
to the realization of the real nature of an evil situation and that by
refusing to cooperate with evil, truth can be asserted.

21. Religion Reduces Fear of the Unknown
▪ Religion was developed from man’s need to have a sense of origin and
destination; to discover where they came from and where they are
bound to go when they die.
▪ Religion provides answers for phenomena and questions that science
or reason cannot explain.
▪ The belief in the afterlife has become very important in most religions
because it has become the basis for their daily conduct or how they
live their lives.
▪ EXAMPLE
▪ The Hindus, regarding how they follow their dharma (moral and social
obligation) determines what will happen to them in the afterlife as long as they
follow their dharma, they will reap good karma (karma refers to moral
consequences of one’s act).

22. Religion Gives Positive Goals in Life
▪ People were inspired by the stories of different prophets from their own
religious affiliations, like that of Moses, Siddhartha Gautama, and
Muhammad.
▪ These people showed how ordinary people like them were given important
missions in life and how they struggled to carry out their respective
missions.
▪ Moses was ordered to liberate the Hebrews from slavery in Egypt and lead
them to the promised land.
▪ Muhammad was chosen to challenge the supremacy of the ruling class in
the desert by preaching equality and founding the Islamic religion.
▪ Siddhartha Gautama gave up his wealth and power to find the solution for
sickness, poverty, old age and death.
▪ Their narratives give people a sense of meaning in life; that they are not
placed in this world without a purpose.

23. Religion Gives People a Sense of
Belonging
▪ Religion provides people with personal identity as part of a group
with similar worldviews, beliefs, values, practices, and lifestyles.
▪ It provides communities with prospects to recognize and offer vital
action and service to provide the needs of the larger community.
▪ Members of a religious community can have the assurance that they
can rely on other people’s help in times of need.
▪ They can also expect to have people rejoice with them in times of
success.
▪ Religion can provide a sense of personal identity and belonging.

24. NEGATIVE EFFECTS OF
RELIGION

25. Religion Affirms Social Hierarchy
▪ Some religions affirm social hierarchy often favoring men
and as a result perpetuate the notions of class or gender
discrimination and oppression.
▪ EXAMPLE of religion reflecting the hierarchy of political
structures
▪ The Confucian emphasis on the relations between ruler and
subject, with the former exercising authority over the latter.
▪ The traditional caste system in India would also reflect how
religion reflects political and social structures since it propagated
the idea that people had to be subdivided into certain social
classes with particular social roles.

26. ▪ Religious fanaticism can lead to feelings of
hatred, which could lead to racism and
eventually violence.
▪ Religion can be a source of discrimination, or
the prejudicial treatment of different
categories of people or things, especially on
the basis of race, religion, age or sex.
▪ In Islam, the practice of wearing the hijab ( a
head covering worn in public by Muslim
women) and burqa (a covering of the whole
body from the top of the head to the ground)
is considered by many critics as a form of
suppression against Muslim women.
▪ Women have to cover their body, from head
to toe, so as not to attract the attention of
men- perpetuating the notion that women
are temptations that men should avoid.

27. Religion Triggers Conflict and Fights
▪ Wars have been fought in the name of religion and this
phenomenon continues up to the present time.
▪ In Palestine, the Jews are in conflict with the Muslims;
▪ In Kashmir, it is the Muslims against Hindus;
▪ In Sudan, it is the Muslims opposite Christians and animists;
▪ In Indonesia, it is Muslims against Timorese Christians.
▪ These are only some of so many wars being fought in the name of
religion, which means that so many resources are being wasted
and millions of lives are being lost.

28. Religion as an Economic Tool for
Exploiting the Masses
▪ Karl Marx, a German philosopher once said, “religion is the opium of
the masses.” This is in relation to his critical approach to religion in
which he proposed that the bourgeoisie keeps the proletariat in
control through religion.
▪ According to Marx, it maintains social inequality by propagating a
worldview that justifies oppression.
▪ Whether one is a Christian, Jewish or Muslim, religious teachings
justifying one’s acceptance of oppression as a normal part of life on
earth as a means to get an everlasting reward in the afterlife can be
seen as a bourgeois tactic to maintain the status quo where they reap
more resources and power in society.
▪ Thus, in Marx’s conflict theory, the abolition of religion is needed to
liberate the masses from their oppressive state.

29. Religion Impedes Scientific Success
and Development
▪ EXAMPLE
▪ it has often been said that the Catholic Church used to teach that the world is
flat and warned people against going to faraway places if they do not wish to
fall off the edge of the earth.
▪ the claim that the earth is the center of the solar system also known as
Ptolemaic theory.
▪ Aristarchus, and later on Nicolas Copernicus proved that the sun is the center
of the solar system and all other planets move around it, hence advancing the
heliocentric model.
▪ Religion-based mortuary practices can also be detrimental to public health and
sanitation.
▪ example, during the cholera outbreak in the Philippines in the 19th century, the
Catholic practice of having the dead body of cholera victims be brought first to
the church for a Mass was seen as one reason why the cholera epidemic spread
rapidly. Liberal-minded people at that time believed that it would be much safer
and hygienic to bury the dead immediately instead of exposing the dead bodies
by observing religious practices

30. Religion Obstructs the Use of
Reason
▪ Ancient religious beliefs and practices
which have proven to be inhumane
should be replaced with sensible ones.
▪ Take for example, the case of trepanning
or the ancient practice of boring holes in
the human skull, a surgical procedure
performed on epileptics and the mentally
ill, with the belief that through the hole
the evil spirit will leave the person.
▪ During those days they regard it as an
attempt at exorcism, but at present the
procedure is just unthinkable.

32. 12,000 x 0.10= ?
12,000 x 0.10= 1,200

33. ASSESSMENT
A. Instruction: From the given choices match the statements with the given positive or negative
effects below. Write the letter of the correct answer in your journal.
A B
_____1. Religion promotes obscurantism.
_____2. Religion is a source of discrimination.
_____3. Religion gives a sense of purpose in life.
_____4. Religion sets notions of right and wrong.
_____5. Religion makes good people do evil things.
_____6. Religion should be susceptible to progress.
_____7. Religion gives a sense of origin and
destination.
_____8. Religion integrates and stabilizes cultures as
well as nations.
_____9. Religion provides people an assurance as to
where spirits will go when people die.
_____10. Confucian emphasis on the relations
between the ruler and the subject, with the former
exercising authority over the latter.
a. Religion affirms hierarchy.
b. Religion provides moral values.
c. Religion sets positive goals in life.
d. Religion promotes discrimination.
e. Religion promotes social solidarity.
f. Religion obstructs the use of reason.
g. Religion Triggers Conflict and Fights.
h. Religion reduces fear of the unknown.
i. Religion gives people a sense of belonging.
j. Religion obstructs scientific success and
development.

34. B. Read and Understand the statement.
Write at least 3 sentences each question.
1.Do you agree that sometimes religious conflicts are
being used for political reasons? Explain.
2.In your own opinion, can religious conflicts be
avoided? If yes, how?

35. RUBRIC FOR COLLAGE
CRITERIA DESCRIPTION POINTS POINTS OBTAINED
ORGANIZATION The concept was clearly and creatively
conveyed.
10
CONTENT The pictures were appropriate to the theme 20
VISUAL
PRESENTATION
The idea was clearly presented based on the
pictures and words used.
20
ASSIGNMENT 2
Choose three positive effects and three negative effects of religion and give specific examples of each based
on your personal experience or knowledge. Cut pictures from magazines or newspaper which reflect the said
effects and make a collage on a 1/8 illustration board.

36. RELIGION IS NEVER THE
PROBLEM; IT’S THE
PEOPLE WHO USE IT TO
GAIN POWER