U.S. President Harry Truman’s decision to help Israel become a sovereign country has many pros and cons. Nazis had oppressed Jews for several years, and when they were finally liberated, the U.N. felt they deserved to have a country of their own. The president’s studies of the Bible influenced him to believe that the Jews should immigrate to Palestine and divide it so that the surviving Jews can have their own sovereign country, Israel. However, this choice has advantages and disadvantages, as one might expect. One disadvantage to Truman’s decision to support Israel in becoming a sovereign country is that U.S. relations with the Arabs can be affected.
There are several reasons why the Jews were as hated as they were, are, and will continue to be. The Jews refused to assimilate regardless of which culture, religion, or nation tried to entice or threaten to kill them. It is a pattern in history that regardless of the situation there always seems to be hate for the Jews. In the early years of Christianity the Christians saw The Jewish nation as a threat to their religion. The Czars were afraid of losing power so they created laws to persecute the Jews as well.
Antonio has treated Shylock very rudely and disrespectfully, even calling him a “dog” because of his religion, and now he is coming to him for money. Shylock uses this bond as an opportunity not only to get revenge against Antonio for all of his wrongdoing, but also to achieve more respect in the Venetian community. In addition, in Act 3, Scene 1, during Shylock’s speech to Solanio and Salarino, he declares, “If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility? Revenge. If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example?
Jewish Sects Sects had a lot of the influence upon the religion. Most of the members of the Sanherdrin wee Sadducees. While they were concerned with stability of Jerusalem they favored the torah and the first five books. They did not believe that the other books of the Old Testament were authoritative. Also they did believe in angels or the resurrection from the dead because these documents were not well documented in the Pentateuch.
The first point is that Judaism was clearly affected by Hellenism, in good and not so good ways. It’s hard for cultures that are too dynamic not to penetrate one another when they are side by side, as long as both sides at least attempt to keep an open mind about what’s better for people as a whole. And the real truth if you ask me Judaism as a culture and as a religion was kind of alongside the ideas of Alexander the Great and the Greek culture. The two were not in love with each other, but there were significant similarities. At the same time, Judaism was not overly compromised or changed at a deep level by its interface with Hellenism.
These allow for moral disengagement through a gradual process of detachment in which individuals or groups are placed outside the boundary within which moral values operate (Waller, 2006). These processes also involve a tendency to perceive the world as just and fair. “Just world” thinking (Lerner & Miller, 1978), is the belief that the world is just and those who suffer must have deserved it. Victims of genocide are therefore excluded from the moral universe, so moral values no longer apply to them and they are seen as deserving of their fate (Woolf & Hulsizer, 2005). For example, following World War II there were some who questioned whether Jews were partly responsible for the Holocaust as they were “weak”, “allowed it to happen” and “gave in” (Waller, 2006).
He was repulsed even though the man had actually moved home because he knew he was dying. Even though Jerry was raised in a small, conservative community Jerry’s comments were what was repulsing. The hard headed, pea brained Jerry could not understand that homosexuals are everywhere, even in 1987. The only difference is that today we do not feel the need to hide as much, though obviously there are still places where today I wouldn’t vocalize the point that I’m gay. But In 1987 gay marriage was not being thought of, there was no place in America where homosexuals could marry, this gave Jerry more ease in being adamantly opposed to this AIDS positive homosexual who moved home to die.
6. Circumstantial Ad Hominem- In question number 6 the writer says that Christians are against the Jewish Figurines, because of them having Anti opinions. In their own case it would be ok to have figurines that relate to their own believing. Begging the Question- Also in question number 6 I believe the writer begs the question by thinking the reason for the people against the figurines are all Anti- Semitic, really there is not any evidence to assume this. 8.
The Pharisees and Sadducees accused him of not following the Jewish law because they felt that what he shared with the people was going against the traditional Jewish scripture and they felt that he deserved to be punished. I found this very unfair, just because Jesus had his own way of going about things and it wasn’t “their” way they felt that he was wrong. Now a days we all have our own views and opinions and we definitely would not have been hung on a cross nor would we have been treated as he was. I felt that his punishment was very serious, whether he was the messiah or not, no one deserves to be put to death for something of that matter. When I read that the crucifixion was a punishment that was usually given to people who committed crimes of thievery and other serious cases I became a little more upset.
After reading Romans 1-8, I never would have thought you could find these subjects in these scriptures. I basically saw the subject matter based around the character of how some believers treat other cultures outside of their race. I figured that Paul was just trying to get the Jews straighten out from mistreating the Gentiles, and not allowing them access to salvations, but I know understanding that there was a correlation between what Paul was writing and the subjects at hand. Paul was basically showing us that we had a sinful nature that our identity was in God, which we should have a serving relationship with others outside our race that we should not give into the cultures around us and we should not conform to the civilization that we live in. I fully understand now how these subjects can affect our everyday lives.