Christian belief and practice in the poems by Ron Rash and Robert Morgan cause tension among human beings due to the human experience differing from how belief makes it out to seem. Belief causes the world to seem more perfect than what is understood through human experience and leads one to believe nothing bad can happen to a good person, although experience dictates that it happens daily. Tension can arise in many ways such as from experience dictating that earth’s vices are alluring and addictive, while belief interprets it as foul and rotten. Belief can also cause the world to seem much easier and just than what an individual may learn through human experience. One may too find tension in the ethereal and unseen aspects of belief that doesn’t
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While Christian belief strongly goes against fornication, the human body craves it naturally as an instinct to preserve the human species. These instincts along with other pleasures known through human experience are subconscious and at times very hard to control or even limit, which leads the person toward tension with their Christian belief system. Belief can cause a confusion between human experience and belief, leading the individual to a choice between ethereal and worldly satisfaction or as Ron Rash puts it in Revival “all our other pleasures” (12). In essence this tension is a struggle between worldly satisfaction and satisfaction in the afterlife based on …show more content…
The death of a wife and unborn child is a good example of an unfair situation where according to belief one would assume them protected and watched over. Many bad experiences such as this cause tensions with the individual and belief due to questions of why and to what purpose was this done. These feelings of remorse or hurt bring about tension such as in Ron Rash’s White Wings where he states “inside the church doors he swore/ never to pass through after” (13-24). With experience taking no sides and sparing not even the purest person, people begin to question whether the belief they hold is truth or
While Christian belief strongly goes against fornication, the human body craves it naturally as an instinct to preserve the human species. These instincts along with other pleasures known through human experience are subconscious and at times very hard to control or even limit, which leads the person toward tension with their Christian belief system. Belief can cause a confusion between human experience and belief, leading the individual to a choice between ethereal and worldly satisfaction or as Ron Rash puts it in Revival “all our other pleasures” (12). In essence this tension is a struggle between worldly satisfaction and satisfaction in the afterlife based on …show more content…
The death of a wife and unborn child is a good example of an unfair situation where according to belief one would assume them protected and watched over. Many bad experiences such as this cause tensions with the individual and belief due to questions of why and to what purpose was this done. These feelings of remorse or hurt bring about tension such as in Ron Rash’s White Wings where he states “inside the church doors he swore/ never to pass through after” (13-24). With experience taking no sides and sparing not even the purest person, people begin to question whether the belief they hold is truth or