The Parthenon Greek for "maiden" built in 447 BC is the most preserved and highly influential building of the Roman era. This structure really captures the Greek's idea of humanism because it is a physical embodiment of their values and beliefs. The Parthenon, unlike the Egyptians who built pyramids for the dead, celebrated life on earth rather than the afterlife. As a result of the architecture being served as a sacred shrine dedicated to Athena the goddess of wisdom and war, treasury, and a civic meeting place it united religious and secular domains. The Parthenon was built according to human proportions. The design of the building is so critical and complex that it took modern architects thirty years to restore when it took the Greeks about
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For example, in the Middle Ages, they believed that man are born as sinners. They believed that we were born from “the itch of the flesh in the heat of passion” which will stain our lives. Therefore, we will be against God and even our own selves, and in the end, our bodies will forever be food for worms causing us to forever carry the stink of rottenness. Also, since we are fuel to fires that will burn forever bright our sins will just lead to more sins instead of repenting. This is a despairing text because it gives no hope of ending the cycle of sin or any hope of redemption. Moreover, after analyzing the text, I concluded that the Pope stresses the imminence of death and probability of damnation to scare the people of the church to repent for their sins and live in the path of God and God only, so they won’t meet the consequences of divine punishment, and torment in an afterlife for their actions (sins) that were committed on earth. Lastly, this doesn’t contrast with my ideas a lot because I believe that yes, you should make good decisions so you won’t suffer the consequences of sins, but I can’t fail to mention that the extract was very blunt and brutal and portrays humans as a seething lump of
For example, in the Middle Ages, they believed that man are born as sinners. They believed that we were born from “the itch of the flesh in the heat of passion” which will stain our lives. Therefore, we will be against God and even our own selves, and in the end, our bodies will forever be food for worms causing us to forever carry the stink of rottenness. Also, since we are fuel to fires that will burn forever bright our sins will just lead to more sins instead of repenting. This is a despairing text because it gives no hope of ending the cycle of sin or any hope of redemption. Moreover, after analyzing the text, I concluded that the Pope stresses the imminence of death and probability of damnation to scare the people of the church to repent for their sins and live in the path of God and God only, so they won’t meet the consequences of divine punishment, and torment in an afterlife for their actions (sins) that were committed on earth. Lastly, this doesn’t contrast with my ideas a lot because I believe that yes, you should make good decisions so you won’t suffer the consequences of sins, but I can’t fail to mention that the extract was very blunt and brutal and portrays humans as a seething lump of