Running head: ARTICLE REVIEW: RESPONSE 1
Article Review: Response
Lydia Wray
COMS 560
Liberty University
ARTICLE REVIEW: RESPONSE 2
Article Review: Response
Dennis, your article review this week was very interesting. I choose to review the same
one as well, however, your review and outline of what was written shows a great deal of
understanding. We all know and understand that religion has been used as a form provocation for
many acts and wars that have happened. When you stated that “Helmick surmises that modern
skepticism is a result of the violent historical record mankind has in the name of his god” (Call,
2018, paragraph 1), it shows that your understanding and overview of this article was very
detailed and you understood the concept on how religion has been used to only “add more fuel to
the fire.”
Djupe, Neiheisel, & Sokhey (2017) state that “as the story of religion in American
politics is increasingly being sold as the Christian Right agenda—one that is
generally portrayed in a negative light—it makes sense to think that people
without readily available benchmarks (the disaffiliated) would use available cues
to evaluate the status of religion in their lives” (paragraph 40).
Concluding that using religion within a conflict should be the exception and not the rule, shows
that no matter what, any issues we may have with others, religious views should not be brought
into the fight. James 1:3 proclaims that “because you know that the testing of your faith produces
perseverance” (NIV) shows that a conflict can test many, but having faith will always produce a
resolution.
ARTICLE REVIEW: RESPONSE 3
References
Call, D. (1 February 2018). Thread: CALL_Does Religion Fuel or heal in Conflicts. Liberty
University COMS 6560
Djupe, P. A., Neiheisel, J. R., & Sokhey, A. E. (2017). Reconsidering the Role of Politics in
Leaving Religion: The Importance of Affiliation. American Journal of Political Science.
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