This explains why God did not simply step in and save us from the worst effects of our choices. For humans to have a genuine relationship with God it is only possible to do through our own decisions and this requires freewill, and this is supported by Richard Swinburne and Søren Kierkegaard’s example of the King and the peasant. Freewill is a necessary characteristic according to Soren Kierkegaard as he aims to put forward his idea through the tale of the King and the peasant. The parable is that a King falls in love with a peasant girl and does not want to appear to her as a king as she will be fearful and this would not be genuine love, so he decides to disguise himself as a peasant as a way for her get to know him and genuinely fall in love with him. This is similar to the circumstance of God and human freewill.
Pi shows discontent with how people spoke of zoo's being prisons for animals, versus the safe-havens he saw them as. He expresses their thoughts as "..not the way it is" (16). Here one might question that the zoo is a metaphor for religion and animals being humans. Animals have needs to happily survive such as food, water and shelter; humans basic needs for happy survival are hope and some sort of belief. Animals in the wild represent "un-saved souls" and those animals who live within the safety of the zoo represent "saved souls" who are promised love and eternal-care.
Fox does not blame the Christian church for this disconnectedness, but instead believes that the church has, “…either foster[ed] or ignore[d] the continued damage to the earth” (Kinsley 166). The lack of empathy towards groups and beings at the bottom of a hierarchy created and dominated by patriarchy, has in turn created a lack of, “…spirituality of connectedness” and “…strong negative ecological implications” (Kinsley 167). Fox strongly believed a shift in paradigms towards a view of, “…Christ pervading the entire cosmos with sacrality, connectedness and wonder”(Kinsley 168) that emphasizes the sacredness of all creatures, instead of a God only concerned with individual salvation. Fox’s views on a shift in the views of Christianity, I believe, could be extremely beneficial to the modern world. Because so much of the world follows some sect of Christianity, a change in there fundamental views of nature and its place in our hierarchy, would have a huge impact on the entire
Montgomery’s essay Island Of Plenty uses the biblical reference of the Garden of Eden as a contrast to the current world. He also uses a great deal of logic to feed off the common fears of the common person, which develops his arguments about how the U.S. should not share resources with the countries in need. The Garden of Eden, a beautiful self-sustaining world with no fear and no pollution just a utopia printed and fantasized about in the early testament. Montgomery strengthens his argument about the problems of over population by using the biblical garden as a use of imagery. After his harsh opening paragraph on how the world should let those who starve die, he brings up the image of Eden and how perfect it was before man took control
Country life r. “by the stream and o’er the mead” s. Literary setting for us as readers v. Conclusion “The Lamb” is a Christian poem written by William Blake that utilizes a lamb to symbolize and explain how God created everything in the universe. A child, who is asking a lamb where he came from, speaks this poem. However, the child already knows the answer. The purpose of “The Lamb” is to show God’s love for mankind. William Blake, an English poet, wrote “The Lamb” in 1789.
Frost’s point of view towards nature is very respectful and he appreciates it greatly. In the poem “The Pasture” Robert Frost is doing chores in his farm, but he is with a loved one and is inviting him/her to come along and enjoy nature with him. I believe that this poem has a message, life is too short, and nature’s beauty so fleeting, that we should make an excuse to see it as much as we can. In the poem Frost wants to intrigue the character, to come and watch nature with him. He uses phrases like “I’m going out to fetch the little calf, That’s standing by the mother.
Popper wrote the foundation of the principle, but flew went a bit further with it. He was influenced by Popper but Flew applied the falsification principle to religious language and derived the conclusion that religious statements are no more than words with little to no significance. He then goes on to modify John Wisdom's analogy of the intangiable gardener to illustrate his point that religious believers cannot be convinced against God and their belief in him. Flew says that a religious believer is forced to say that “God's love is incomprehensible” when they are faced with the argument that God allows the death of a child due to an inoperable illness. He also goes further to say that “religious believers are allowing their definition of God to 'die a death of a thousand qualifications'” which would suggest that Flew believes that religious believers will use any 'qualification of God' to explain certain happenings in the world.
The Tyger is something more sinister and complicated. Like in this quote “Could twist the sinews of thy heart?/And when thy heart began to beat,/ What dread hand? & what dread feet? (Lines 10-12).” An article by Martin Price, Called Songs of Innocence and Experience, states that “The Lamb, the creator “calls himself a Lamb/ He is meek, & he is mild;/He became a little child.” In The Tyger the creator again is like what he creates… (Martin 17).” Which shows my early statement about Blake’s The Lamb and The Tyger. A similarity between the two poems by Blake would have to be the
Huxley demonstrates how in mankind’s attempt to achieve a utopia, values such as freedom and nature may be given up, creating a ‘nightmarish’ world instead. “A love of nature keeps no factories busy. It was decided to abolish the love of nature.” Through the use of ridicule on how humanity tends to destroy all potential problems as opposed to actually facing them, Huxley displays that if humans continue this trend, then during mankind’s pursuit for a perfect world, nature as a whole may be completely destroyed, as it doesn’t aid the advance of society technologically. Furthermore, Huxley implicates that in order for society to achieve ‘absolute harmony’; one of the major sacrifices that must be made, is out freedom. “We also predestine and condition.” The words “predestine” and “condition” invokes feelings in the reader that lives are being controlled, and that decisions in the world are non-flexible and choices has been relinquished by
Blake reminds the reader that Christ has provided everything from food to clothing to life in general. “The Lamb” was meant to spark a renewal in one’s religious beliefs. In addition, the idea of simplicity and purity in thought is evident in the structure of “The Lamb.” Not only is the poem short in length, but it also makes use of simple word choices. In comparison to “The Lamb” which promotes total faith and devotion to God, William Blake’s poem “The Tyger” focuses on the ideas of religion and creationism versus nature in a more questioning light. “The Lamb” presents creation in a simplistic light of all things being made by God, where as “The Tyger” seeks to understand the motivation behind creation.