When artists portray images revolving around religious icons the image may turn into something highly controversial. It is true that the constitution does give Americans freedom of speech as well as expression but there is always a fine line between pushing the envelope and burning it and sometimes these artists burn it completely. The artist who constructed the image for the Blake Prize for religious art constructed an image of the portrait of Jesus with the face of Osama Bin Laden. The image’s controversy is one that deserves analyzing because of the context of the image as well as the reaction to the image. Throughout the analysis one must keep in mind that this image was meant for a contest of religious art.
The Puritans wanted to remove all practice and rituals of Catholicism from Europe. John Winthrop and fellow Puritans were frustrated with religious activities in England, “All other Churches of Europe are brought to desolation and or sinnes”. He believed that the Church was corrupted and that the lord “Frowned upon us, doe threatens us fearfully”. Winthrop believed that England was invaded by evil and ran by a corrupted Government, and that the roots for religious learning were being disturbed. They feared to live in such sinful society, because they believed that God predestined people to salvation and others were damned for the rest of time.
I have had friends who I consider brothers died in Iraq because of suicide bombers and I have had friends ridicule and harassed because they are Muslim. I have learned to accept people from all walks of life, it does not matter what religion, skin color, or background. To me all are created equal, and I am tired of seen many tied because of what they believe is the right thing. Palestinians kill Jews, Jews kill them, Americans kill Muslims, Muslims kill non Muslims. It is an all out War right now because of Religion, and we need to stop and think what we are doing to our planet and people.
The Taliban believed that ruling an area must be done with violence and they imposed a strict version of Sharia Law, because of this the population of Kabul were terrified of them because of the strict and violence consequences if you did not obey to their rules. The Taliban then started making contact with the terrorist Osama Bin Laden who was responsible for the 9/11 attacks on the US. Because of this the Us then asked that the Taliban handed over Osama Bin Laden to which they refused, therefore an international coalition of forces invaded Afghanistan and then took back Kabul. However before these forces invaded Afghanistan there were no leadership at all which resulted in very low levels of political and human security. In late 2001 a democratic vote was held in which Hamid Khazai was elected president of Afghanistan, which therefore straight away helped the security of the area because there was a leader who would contribute to the development process.
The communists always tried to suppress religions anyway possible and because of Ngo Dinh Diem being Catholic and in charge of South Vietnam at the start of the resistance to the North. They felt it was a smart move to wipe as many of them out as they could. The Vietcong and North Vietnamese also had the goal of causing “…an uproar in the world and in the US….” Due to its Vietnamese cultural, historical, and political heritage, Hue was a center of international attention. The communists’ occupation and massacres there served their intents of gaining superiority at the negotiations, and especially of threatening the American people, causing them to worry about their military relatives in Vietnam up to the point of urging the US government to promptly bring
This power that the nuns and priests had effected the Indians greatly, some of them paying with their lives. As stated by Mary Crow Dog, “I know of an eleven-year-old on another reservation who hanged herself, and in our school, while I was there, a girl jumped out of the window, trying to kill herself to escape an unbearable situation” (351). The Christian religion was sometimes strict and intolerable to outside beliefs. This inadaptability to foreign concepts creates a barrier against compassion and compromise of Mary Crow Dog and other Indians. The use of Catholicism and flawed human nature created a self-righteousness of the
When Barbara found out she was pregnant another time, she felt an abortion would be the best decision because she had little money to support her and her son already, and her mom said that she would not help her daughter with to have another baby. Barbara went through with the abortion, and even though she was set on the idea we could see that she was going through both physical and emotional pain both during and after the procedure. The story of Imaculee was also another insightful story. In this novel we learn that Imaculee was a young girl when the genocide in Rwanda broke out. The Hutu people were killing the Tutsis just because they were Tutsi.
Subsequently, he goes to the grave still holding onto his dignity and beliefs. God cries for the people such as Thomas Putnam, the girls, and even Danforth for killing their fellow sons of God over religion. In the modern day, we hear about the Taliban in the Middle East, which reminds me of what happened during the Salem Witch Trials. Hopefully one day, the human race will be able to have religion without it being radical, and more people will think and like John
People start accusing others when they are afraid of the consequences. The girls, being afraid of getting condemned, started accusing others in order to save themselves. Not only did they not have enough information to support their claim, they also caused the suffering of others. Mrs. Putnam accuses Goody Osburn of murdering her babies on page 49. She exclaims, ‘’I knew it!
But, it is also believed that even though the different ethnic groups are fighting against each other, they show a common hatred for our country. The terrorist groups have been accused and declared as taking these unfriendly attacks because of the religious and ethnic diversity around the country. But, when they see that Americans, people of different race and from another country, try to interfere with their own lives, they do not like that. There were several instances where representatives from different “religious groups” would meet under the supervision of American troops and a suicide bomber would set a trap and take them all out. Even though these people are trying to resolve their differences, it seems as if the terrorists don’t see this and just look as it as that people who are not supposed to be here are interfering with our business.