Abrahamic religions

“What Would Jesus Do?” (WWJD) is a pop culture phrase that some Christians - and even some non-Christians - employ to direct their moral compass. As illustrated by many tales in the bible, Jesus is selfless and always does what is right, even when it seems more beneficial for him to do what is wrong. So by asking yourself WWJD, you really ask yourself what is the right thing to do in any given situation, using Jesus as the model for morality that guides your actions. Your professor miscalculates…

Deductive Thinking Theory: The theory we are looking at here is the fact that all men are mortal. Hypothesis: There are two indisputable facts about the existence of human beings that every man kind is confronted with. Every human being is sure to die someday even though we pretend to act normally. The first one is axiomatic and the second proved by existence of mankind. Men live for few years and has never been content with this few years’ existence. Human kind on the other hand is a thinking…

moral compass because my decisions should not be influenced by others. My own moral compass is what I will use when I am making important choices in my life. I also came to realize that it is okay and even encouraged to question things within my religion. It means that I am getting closer within my relationship to God. By recognizing my relationship with God, I am better able to strengthen and grow from it. I know now that I do not necessarily have to agree with everything my church does and or…

Despite all of Descartes’ past educational and travel experiences, he decides he must first study himself and his soul to start over. Descartes decides that he needs to discard all of his current positions, even if they may be right, because he did not trust what he was taught and what others and society taught and thought was the truth. Descartes explained how he discarded his current positions and started fresh, “…I learned not to believe anything too firmly of which I had been persuaded only…

are what you eat. If you eat not healthy food therefore you are not healthy. This idea ties into what we have learned throughout the semester, what we eat makes us up. The food that we eat not only makes us up but it tells others about our culture, religion, gender, and history of our life. Food has been part of our life since we were born, but people do not see the underlining details. The fact that food brings out our culture and tells a lot about ones culture is one of these powerful…

Peace and Religion in H.D.’s Trilogy Trilogy, by H.D., focuses on the interweaving of mythologies in order to create a new type of religion. A book of poems, written during the time span of 1942-1944, places a great emphasis on war and peace. This new religion tried to reconcile the world back to a time of peace by drawing its attention to the ancient, sacred religions of the past and combining them to form a new religion. H.D. acts as a prophet for this new religion. In the section “Tribute…

This is because human nature is to do everything you can to achieve what you want in life whether it is morally right or wrong. If a person’s self interest is to rid the world of a certain ethnicity or religion, he might take to killing people in order to reach his goal. This is morally wrong, but it is in his self interest to do so. Hobbes claims that fear and hope propel humans in their quest of life and this is true, because of the fact that people will…

but also of World War 2 itself. Some of these themes include the theme of darkness, not just the title of the story, but the physical and non-physical senses of the word. Another of these themes includes faith, particularly in Judaism, but also religion all across the world as they pertain to various ethical and moral decisions. Throughout the novel, Elie continually fights his own morality. In the height of the Holocaust, Elie, as a small child, and his father were taken to a concentration…

I believe that AT&T should mandate a diversity policy because it will be able to make sure that there is respect between employees, employers and even coworkers. I believe that they should mandate a diversity policy because it means that the employees, employers and coworkers would respect one another nonmatter their religious views, gender, sexual orientation, race and color. I believe that even though Albert Buonanno an AT&T employee believes that his religious beliefs keep him from signing…

a husband and wife. Children are what we strive for, and we need to keep the wonderful world we live in today striving with people and loving families so the children do not get discouraged. Although we are in a free country and we can choose our religion we should live how God wants us to. Marriage in the world should be how it has been forever; kids should be able to have parents like the majority of the world has it, a man and…