Church, Sect, and Cult Essay

The organization that lately re-titled itself “the Islamic State” has existed under several names and forms since the 1990s. Its legend is an epic of how modern terrorism progressed, from a religious and political ideal into an obliterating-cult. The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is a properly-armed group that is a threat to the global security. ISIS, whose merciless members delight in murdering innocent people, must be destroyed before its fanatical followers carry out further…

written because Paul was worried he was losing this congregation to rivals to his authority, in particular, a guy named Cephas, who apparently was such a good leader of his congregation that the congregants were starting to forget that Paul founded the church in the first…

(Stempsey 212) This quote directly relates to the first painting The Entombment of Atala, the women Atala gave up her life so she would not be tempted to break her chastity. This is interesting that this one suicide was allowed. Although in the Catholic Church, decades ago had penalties for suicide which were that the person who had committed suicide could not be buried in a Catholic cemetery, but now according to Stempsey “The most recent ecumenical council, Vatican II, does not speak of…

He turned a little sideways in his chair to drink his mug of coffee. At the table on his left the man with the strident voice was still talking remorselessly away. A young woman who was perhaps his secretary, and who was sitting with her back to Winston, was listening to him and seemed to be eagerly agreeing with everything that he said. From time to time Winston caught some such remark as 'I think you're so right, I do so agree with you', uttered in a youthful and rather silly feminine voice.…