Many thought once again if God let this happen, and let it happen for everyone to see he must not exist. Many felt as though God would not allow such harsh and painful doings to someone so young and innocent, and he would not let it be so everyone could see. Many people’s faith was lessened because of the harsh conditions of the environment. The Jews were forced out of their homes and did not knowing where they were going. This challenged the faith because faith is about not knowing but trusting in God that you will be safe.
Baldwin doesn’t agree the white man is the devil, but “according to Elijah, that [he] failed to realize that the white man was a devil was that [he] had been too long exposed to white teaching and had never received true instruction” (Baldwin, 66). Baldwin was given the opportunity to become an influential part of this Islamic movement, but Baldwin does not agree with what they preach and believe. Upon leaving Baldwin “wished to be able to love and honor [Muhammad] as a witness, an ally, and a father” (Baldwin, 78), but “…would be strangers, and possibly, one day, enemies” (Baldwin, 79). Because he was so opposing to the movement’s principles to be best friends with the leader of the movement would be seen as contradictory. Being friends with Muhammad would be like Martin Luther King, Jr. befriending Malcolm X.
By sinning and keeping it secret, he was breaking two of God's most important laws: Do not commit adultery, and do not lie. Lying not only caused Dimmesdale emotional pain, but it also appeared physically. He became weak and frail, barely able to hold his head high. Roger Chillingworth had been Hester's previous husband, before he sent her ahead to America. When he learned of Hester's betrayal, he was furious.
The FBI and The Bureau of Tobacco and Fire Arms failed to recognize the nature of millenarian beliefs because David Koresh viewed his delusions as reality of life. I think that the government didn’t think the beliefs are real because the beliefs were bizarre. Also, another reason the government didn’t take the Davidians serious because they were in cult. The ATF contributed that this event was a lot of troubles that caused a lot of people to die for a good purpose. Likewise in the First Amendment people want the government to take religious beliefs very serious in order to not cause another epidemic from happening
In this quote Okonkwo is speaking with Obierika, one of his closest friends, about the slaughter of Ikemefuna. Okonkwo questions him why he did not join in with the other men to help with the sacrifice. Obierika uses the excuse that he was busy, and Okonkwo accuses him that he is not following the will of the Oracle in helping them. Yet, Okonkwo knows that he too did not want to partake in this ritual. He simply was not strong enough to say no because he believed that this would show weakness inside of him.
The King Philip War significantly shifted the puritans’ attitude toward the Indians. The war not only inflicted pain and death upon the puritans, but also threatened the colony’s stability. The puritans thus became hostile toward the Indians and came to view them as enemies that needed to be eliminated in order to protect themselves as well as this “city on the hill”. In addition, John mentioned in his account that only a very small number of Indians were being converted to Christianity. The failure to convert the Native Americans to Christianity perhaps is another reason that changed the puritans’ attitude toward the Indians.
The death of Thomas Becket is split between the 3 people, the king, Becket and the knight. The king was blamed for some of the incident as Henry didn’t order the murder but it was clear he wanted it done. So he should be more carefull about what he says. Also the king wanted power and was greedy and selfish which is bad it its self but he wanted the churchs power and so put a non-religius man in a place of 2nd in charge of church this was very
Lemon continues by saying that “building a mosque at Park 51 is an extraordinary circumstance” and this is a very heated issue because many people lost their loved ones on 9/11. Patel mentioned that Muslim Americans were also amongst those who lost their loved ones but many Americans only seem to forget this and focus on the other religions victims. Incorporating what Lemon has said, it seem like he doesn’t want the mosque to be built next to ground zero because Muslim were apart of the 9/11 attack. Just because a small group of Muslims blew up the twin towers doesn’t mean that all Muslims are evil and heartless and they should be punished by refusal of constructing a mosque near ground
This war was also considered inconvenient at that time. Also it corrupted almost every soldier’s mental state; because their families have claimed they have never been the same since. The current Iraq war follows similar guidelines. President Bush started the same problem with our soldiers but instead of it being the swamplands he invaded the desert lands of Iraq. Also he brought the idea of terrorism which is not worth fighting for.
This is because he doesn't want other people to go down this road. He wanted others to follow the ways he did to come clean and join the Nation of Islam. In addition, Malcolm X had found out that his teachings that he had learned from Elijah Muhammad were false. Malcolm spoke to the people about how he was mislead. This shows that he was honest about his misjudgement of information and how he expected to change it.