Assignment

While I was reading Asma why we need religion, what stuck out to me the most was the section "Developing EON Perspective". In this section the author exclaimed on how religion helps reduces anger and other negative emotions by prayer, meditation, and other techniques(190). This caught my attention immediately because I grew up having severe anger issues, and there were times when I would explode and try to fight any and everyone who even looked my direction crazy. A way I coped with my anger was prayer(when I found God myself) and meditating when I didn't have access to a basketball and rim. When I said found God for myself, what I meant is that growing up religion was kinda forced upon me and I didn't really understand who God was and why everyone thought he was so important until I had to do time somewhere and I couldn't depend on nothing but God himself. Another example this section talked about was guardian aggression and vulnerability. Basically he exclaimed that as the guardian, we feel that it's a must that we protect the people we love from any danger that tries to come their way and if we have to show anger and rage then so be it. I'm overprotective over all my siblings because I've seen how cruel the world can get, and I wouldn't want them to see and go through the things I had to, so I feel that it's my priority to protect them from whatever the world tries to throw at them. Just like in the story when they were in China and a car drove very close to his son's stroller. Asma walked on the street and punched the side mirror clean off as an act of anger because we want to do harm to anyone who tries to bring harm to the people we love most.