If rituals did not exist, we would have to invent them. We need ceremonies and rituals to help us define ourselves socially and culturally.
Rituals are the defining element of the identity of a group of people. Performing rituals aim mainly at delivering a certain concept or a specific idea. Therefore, performing rituals is vial for a better understanding of not only ourselves but also our purpose in this world. Thus, I mostly agree with the statement regarding the significance of rituals and religious ceremonies because of the following three reasons:
Firstly, rituals cannot be invented simply by practitioners just because its intentions are ambiguous, especially, these sort of ceremonies that require human sacrifice. For instance, there was a disguised ceremonial event aiming at the sacrifice of children, after decades, it was discovered that the designer of this ritual was a doctor and all the sacrificed children had their organs sold. Thus, humans generally are too untrustworthy to be responsible for creating something critical such as rituals. Their personal desires will definitely have a great influence on their ideas and actions.
Secondly, religious rituals, that were originated from bygone religions, particularly Judaism, Christianity and Islam, which have the greatest popularity in our world, serve as a purge of hearts of any unwanted feelings. For example, the pilgrimage season in Islam directs Muslims to do some rituals such as fasting, charity and praying. Each one of these rituals have a meaning that is inflicted directly into the heart of the worshipper. Fasting gives us an idea about every day’s life of the poor, so we can later feel them and be gentler with them. Charity teaches us to give those, whom are in need. Because life is always interchanging, the strong should aid the weak. Praying is asking the God for our desires, it is about submission and surrender to the creator, that inspires an eternal peace in the heart of the worshipper.
Finally, religious ceremonies are unique to each community. For instance, the middle eastern society, who its majority is Islam, has some unique characteristics, such as the unconditional respect of women, which arose precisely from Islam. It is noticeable in Gulf countries, that women have special privileges, they have the priority in shopping, parking, driving and even governmental bodies dedicate special places for women. On the other hand, a community that worships a cow or a monkey, will have a different influence. Certainly, the animal will be more protected and holy.
All in all, inventing rituals are not of our responsibility, rituals shall be flawless and when it is made by man it becomes vulnerable to mistakes. However, rituals are essential part of any society. It defines ethics, behaviors, identity and allows a better understanding of the purpose of humans. Thus, rituals’ importance cannot be questioned, yet it is too complex and sensitive to give a decisive answer to this matter.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 116, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'this sort' or 'these nulls'?
Suggestion: this sort; these nulls
...s intentions are ambiguous, especially, these sort of ceremonies that require human sacrif...
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Line 9, column 432, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... give a decisive answer to this matter.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, firstly, however, if, regarding, second, secondly, so, therefore, thus, for example, for instance, sort of, such as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 26.0 19.5258426966 133% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.4196629213 72% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 14.8657303371 108% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.3162921348 106% => OK
Pronoun: 37.0 33.0505617978 112% => OK
Preposition: 51.0 58.6224719101 87% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 12.9106741573 62% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2423.0 2235.4752809 108% => OK
No of words: 458.0 442.535393258 103% => OK
Chars per words: 5.2903930131 5.05705443957 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.62611441266 4.55969084622 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.98379841054 2.79657885939 107% => OK
Unique words: 268.0 215.323595506 124% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.585152838428 0.4932671777 119% => OK
syllable_count: 770.4 704.065955056 109% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 6.24550561798 176% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.38483146067 46% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.2370786517 114% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 23.0359550562 82% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 64.2944549523 60.3974514979 106% => OK
Chars per sentence: 105.347826087 118.986275619 89% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.9130434783 23.4991977007 85% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.0 5.21951772744 134% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 17.0 10.2758426966 165% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.83258426966 62% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.245173258104 0.243740707755 101% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0616095172864 0.0831039109588 74% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.048172933512 0.0758088955206 64% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.12766822164 0.150359130593 85% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0480933850288 0.0667264976115 72% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.4 14.1392134831 95% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 48.8420337079 90% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.1743820225 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.4 12.1639044944 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.72 8.38706741573 116% => OK
difficult_words: 149.0 100.480337079 148% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 11.8971910112 101% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.2143820225 86% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.