Is Seeing Believing? or is Believing Seeing?

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Each and every minute we live our lives, for those who are not blind, we are seeing whatever is before us, unless we are asleep. Seeing has many purposes for us, as humans. And it is crucial to many aspects of our lives.

Throughout Darsan: Seeing the Divine Image in India, written by Diana Eck, she explores how sight is essential to Hindu culture. Going into the physical representation of God and how it is important.

Sight can be related to religion because of our visual perception of God. This visual perception is held sacred to many differnt cultures. As a Christian myself, there are so many images of Jesus Christ all throughout churches. This allows individuals to to form a picture in our head of what Jesus would look like in person. This is very symbolic to each and every believer whether or not they are part of the religion of Christianity. 

Seeing plays such a crucial role in so many different aspects of religion that religion would not be the same without sight. It would many perspectives of many different aspects of a various amount of religion throughout the world. 

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