Salvation by Langston Hughes is a prime example of believing in something that will never come. This essay took place in Hughes church when he was a child. There was a ceremony to bring all the church children “into the fold”. Hughes was told that Jesus would come and save him. He believed it because his aunt told him that Jesus saved him before. He never came so he lied to his aunt about being saved by Jesus because he didn’t want to hurt his aunt. Thus the main meaning of this essay is disillusionment with organized religion and many other things.
In the second sentence of the first paragraph Hughes states “But not really saved.” This is an important part of the text because it shows the falsehood of religion throughout the text by showing …show more content…
Disillusionment is when you feel disappointed about discovering that somethings is not as true as one believes it to be.
On npr.org a religious leader speaks on America’s Disillusionment with church and came up with ideas that closely resembled some of Hughes in “Salvation”
He speaks about how the people that call themselves atheist and agnostic has doubled in the last seven years and how young adults are losing faith.
Both Hughes and this religious speaker Rev. Gary Hall have the same views on disillusionment about children losing faith and organized religion is starting to lose its creditability. In the interview he states that “One of the things that survey say pretty strongly is that the people who are religious continue to have very strong desires to pray, to do important social justice work and community work with people, but they don’t see the church as the place to do that.” This almost prove that churches are losing its credibility because this survey was done, people don’t see the churches as a place to do community work or social justice work. I agree with Hughes and Rev. Gary Hall because I’ve had many friends who were religious turn atheist and kept it hidden from their parents because they didn’t want to be looked at a certain
In the second sentence of the first paragraph Hughes states “But not really saved.” This is an important part of the text because it shows the falsehood of religion throughout the text by showing …show more content…
Disillusionment is when you feel disappointed about discovering that somethings is not as true as one believes it to be.
On npr.org a religious leader speaks on America’s Disillusionment with church and came up with ideas that closely resembled some of Hughes in “Salvation”
He speaks about how the people that call themselves atheist and agnostic has doubled in the last seven years and how young adults are losing faith.
Both Hughes and this religious speaker Rev. Gary Hall have the same views on disillusionment about children losing faith and organized religion is starting to lose its creditability. In the interview he states that “One of the things that survey say pretty strongly is that the people who are religious continue to have very strong desires to pray, to do important social justice work and community work with people, but they don’t see the church as the place to do that.” This almost prove that churches are losing its credibility because this survey was done, people don’t see the churches as a place to do community work or social justice work. I agree with Hughes and Rev. Gary Hall because I’ve had many friends who were religious turn atheist and kept it hidden from their parents because they didn’t want to be looked at a certain