The Importance Of Religious Symbolism

Since the human community emerged, some questions have always been difficult and interesting for all people. Actually, most of these unanswered questions are related to whether heaven, hell, the life after death, reincarnation etc. exist or not. If we collect all emphasized topics under one title, it should be called as religion. Different religions exist on the world and all of them have their supporters. Those people express their religious beliefs mainly with the help of religious symbols. However in our modern world, in many societies these religious are banned by the authorities because of different reasons. To be frank, despite religious wearing and symbols are requirement of religions, use of all these symbols depends on the opinions and choices of individuals, so people have their right to use them. Although, religious symbols should be free mostly, in special cases there ought to be some limits to …show more content…
Accordingly the main symbols are Star and Crescent, the Star of David and the Cross. These religious symbols are used all over the world by a great number of people. While many countries have ban against these symbols to be used in public places, according to Pew Research analysis, 64 of 196 countries over the world have religious symbols on their flags. While half of those 64 countries have the symbols of Christianity, only 33 percent of them include Islamic religious symbols. Nevertheless, Israel is the only country which has Jewish symbols on its flag. Despite United States is a secular country which means that the religion is separated from government and there is not any symbols on its flag, some states has religious imagery on their