Langston loses his faith because of how Auntie Reed tells him that “when you were saved you saw a light, and something happened to you inside” (197). Langston takes her word, expecting to see a light and to feel something stirring in side of him. When he doesn’t see or feel anything after he’s saved, he gives up on believing in Jesus because he had believed in his aunt’s words. As a young boy, Langston wanted to see Jesus, who wanted to earn salvation, but when he didn’t see Jesus, when supposedly everyone else saw, he’s finds himself in a position of disappointing himself and everyone in the congregation. So he finally “saves” himself by pretending to see Jesus.
DB Forum Module 4 The Gospel Message 1. In our culture the gospel message is often perceived as just another path that leads to God. People often reject the gospel message because they feel like it does not include everyone. Therefore, if everyone cannot be included then the gospel message has to compromise or it may not be accepted. That thought pattern is rooted in sin and rebellion because the gospel message is centered on repentance of sin and accepting Jesus as Lord.
Since when did Muslims have their own God? I thought Buddha was just a lucky charm or a paper weight, how come some people treat him like a God? If Greek Mythologies are just stories and not at all real, does that mean the stories in the bible are not real either? For some reason, I just know that I shouldn’t voice these questions out loud because people get frustrated and end up getting annoyed and not answer at all. The time came for me to have my first communion; I was to have some study sessions about God as well as a confession.
Movies and TV shows have been portraying Christians as judgmental, mindless, know-it-alls for years. Cartoons like Family Guy, The Simpsons, and South Park, have depicted Christians as ignorant and condemning. Our culture recognizes wisdom and love as virtuous, but in view of the media’s portrayal of Christians, it is safe to assume that believers are not up to par on either of these things. Believers need to reexamine what it means to love God with all their mind and in doing so love others. Believers practicing loving God with all their mind would be a witness to this world and even a way of reaching out in compassion and gentleness we have left behind by burying our arguments in our Bibles and not engaging the questions raised by the lost.
Here and there he will make small references for the kid even though his belief is cloudy. The kid had a lost childhood; if the dad were gone what would he then have a reason to stay alive then for? The father could also have found a presence of God in his son, “If he is not the word of God then God never spoke.” (5) Its obvious he knows about God and was possibly previously a believer, but he has gone literally gone through hell in this toxic wasteland, so he could have lost that connection to Him. Why would God be doing this to us, maybe there isn’t one? It’s hard to know what he actually thinks but through him we see the previous faith being installed in the son.
Salvation Salvation, written by Langston Hughes is an essay, where he retells an experience concerning religion. “I was saved from sin when I was going on thirteen. But not really saved.” It is an experience that will impact how he deals with religion in the future. The beginning of the essay has a tone that makes the reader feel excited, curious and hopeful. In the end, the tone makes the reader feel disappointed, guilty and a non-believer.
Langston Hughes’ essay “Salvation” tries to tell his childhood experience where he loss of innocence and faith of his understanding that Jesus is not real. On the first three sentences, Hughes shows his maturity, but as the essay goes on, his writing represents a naïve young boy. After further reading of the essay, Hughes has effectively portrays his experience through his writing by developing a persona that could be seen from the length of the sentences, diction, and use of detail. Hughes seems to have written his essay where the sentences varied in lengths, but preferably using shorter sentences. It is clear that he intended to fascinate and place the reader in the same shoes as his, with the use of varying length sentences, as the reader
He thought that people believe in God because they have been taught as a baby to believe. Or, as he says elsewhere: “As I said before, I do not think the real reason why people accept religion has anything to do with argumentation. They accept religion on emotional grounds (users.drew.edu).” Russell thought it was fear that made people have faith in religion. As Russell begins his essay he starts with the question of God’s existence. His first criticism is the “proofs of God”.
He is unable to take the "responsibility" of caring for his holy father God, he is "tormented" and constantly "[aching]" of his shame. When he denies to pray for the soul of the dead baby, he feels guilty and goes back looking for the mother. He thinks he is inadequate to continue with his search, he finds the tomb of the baby and a cube of sugar laying above the tombstone. The priest is now left "abandon" and with "despair", he is now waiting for a "miracle" to save him. He is now being tentative because he does not know if he should eat the sugar cube, but his loathsome side ended up taking over, and he eats the sugar cube.
So the same would apply to the red peoples beliefs. In “Salvation” the irony is Hughes ended up losing his faith when the faithful tried to save him. He was a young boy and expected to physically see a man but he did