Right here Jack already tries to imply that his choir is more savage than the rest of the boys by calling them hunters. Secondly, Jack once again expresses his need for control by going against the rules that were instilled among the boys in the beginning of the book. Jack says, “Bollocks to the rules! Were strong- we hunt…we’ll close in and beat and beat and beat,” (Golding 99). The excessive control demonstrated by the boys undoubtedly supports the idea that humans are innately evil, and it is also shown in many other ways such as how the boys mistreat each other.
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.
To achieve his end of making his congregants aware of their dangerous positions on earth, in which he states “as they could be cast into hell at any time” he reminded them of the power of God and his capacity for doing away with sinners. Edwards believed that if they were acted like Christians they could be exchanged, human beings were still pitiful creatures, always at the mercy of God. He compares the relationship between men and God by reminding his listeners how it is, “easy to tread on and crush a worm that we see crawling on the earth” (Edwards 300) and how it is much the same for God when he views people. By comparing human beings with worms in “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” Edwards wants his followers to understand that God’s mercy and trying to inspire to be
Gimpel is a man of tremendous character and unwavering spirituality. His character is exhibited when stays with Elka despite her adulterous and treacherous ways. Gimpel’s unconditional love for children that he did not father is possible because of his staunch religious beliefs. In Gimpel’s words, "In the first place, everything is possible, as it is written in the Wisdom of the Fathers (Singer)." It is evident that Gimpel chooses believe what people tell him because he has faith in them just as he has faith in God.
“The Christian Paradox”: The Hypocrisy of America In “The Christian Paradox: How a faithful nation gets Jesus wrong” (Harper's 15 September 2005), Bill McKibben argues that America, a nation which prides itself on its Christian faith, has very little actual understanding of the religion they claim to follow and adhere to. He claims that instead of acting and behaving in a Christian manner, they follow their own creed and their own ideals, far removed from that of Christianity. A creed preached by televangelists and megachurch preachers, one that emphasizes the self above others. This creed is centralized around the idea that “God helps those who help themselves”, an idea that could not be more opposed to the base ideas of Christianity.
“Jesus, or "Isa", as he is known in the Quran, is well mentioned, but with several critical distinctions. According to Muhammad, Isa was not the Son of Allah, only a special prophet, and according to Muhammad, did not die on the cross” (ALLAH). They state that Jesus Christ was replaced by another person and that all Christians are sinners for having faith in the divinity of Christ. Islam, from its beginning has been a religion of hate, whereas Christianity was created on love for one’s fellow man.
Do you agree? Discuss the character and motives of Iago drawing on the examples/evidence from the text that you have collected. Write about 2 pages. I do agree that Iago is the perfect villain as he does not believe in love and has persuaded himself that it is just the “lust of the blood and a permission of the will”, in other words you feel love because you feel lust and you have no willpower to control that lust, so it becomes his possessive goal to prove that one can fight it, persuading the audience that Iago is lost and paranoid. Shakespeare develops him as an amoral character as opposed to the typical immoral driven villain that every audience is accustomed to and this amorality and lack of humanity allows Iago to easily manipulate others and use their weakness against them to achieve what he wants without feeling any doubt or guilt.
Rushdie states the negative elements of religion, through examples such as: the crusades and jihads in the Middle Ages, the conflict-ridden Islamic world, and the smaller disputes between religious fundamentalists and the more progressive types (431-432). Although these few problems originated from religion, Rushdie fails to mention the numerous positive aspects faith has brought to the world. In doing so, he has provided neither a real nor a valid argument but a simple-minded bashing of all religious belief. While religion has caused some tragedies it has also brought about much of the good in the world. The Middle Age religious conflicts were truly a terrible time for all major religions.
“Will to Power” is a section that is parallel to “Thoughts on Life” because is discusses an individuals will to become powerful and make a personal stand for themselves. In “On Interpretation” he shares his view that there is no fact in the world because everything is an interpretation. As you can see all of these sections have a possible relation to Christianity and their set of beliefs. A particular problem I notice with Nietzsche’s aphorisms is that it creates an image for the reader to portray a Christian to be a weak mined helpless being. He basically degrades the entire Bible by saying that there is no fact in the world and everything is an interpretation.
Some of Marx’s best-known obitera are about religion. It is ‘the sigh of the oppressed creature’, ‘the illusory happiness of men’. It is ‘the reflex of the real world’ and best of all it is ‘the opium of the people’” (Turner, 1). Durkheim, on the other hand, spoke a great deal on religion. In Elementary Forms of Religious Life, he specifically defines “a religion is a unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things, that is to say, things set apart and forbidden-beliefs and practices which united in one single moral community called a Church, all those who adhere to them” (Durkheim, 47).