Blasphemy

Euthanasia a prevalent topic recently on the serious uprising of our nation’s political and clinical concern. Blasphemy! Who are we to decide who lives and who dies? Is something most religiously inclined politics or theologian would ask bout topics like euthanasia and abortion. Questions Regarding death and dying have recently become popular topics for discussion by lawyers, theologian, politicians, philosophers and the public. Is euthanasia murder? Should steps be taken toward legalization?…

In the novel Fahrenheit 451, there is a serious issue being handled. The world surrounding Montag and his life continuously rejects the idea of someone being different. The books being burned in the book represent the whole idea of someone thinking differently. No matter what, society keeps on wanting for things to be the same and not change at all. Each individual person prefers to be comfortable with being a copy of what others want you to be at the expense of your own happiness. Once, in the…

Bola Tinubu: The Poor Cant Wait Any Longer By Sunday Njokede Former Lagos governor, Mr. Bola Tinubu had told protesters who gathered at his Ikoyi house to be patient that their miracle is on the way. If you flip the coin to the other side: Tinubu and his family are living large in Nigeria as the Italian Mafia. The Lagos politician has no moral ground to decide who should make sacrifices. Not when, he and his family are living fly like the Gambino crime family. What is hotter than this? The…

conveyed in this excerpt do not originate from some religious righteousness; it originates from a place of bigotry and avarice. His distaste for Joan originates from the lack of reverence for the Church and political action, not any fact base claim of blasphemy or heresy. There is yet another fascinating aspect of Joan’s religion and her political influence in Saint Joan as described in the following quote. “…Joan of Arc… understands herself to be a religious activist who interprets her will as…

Gender discrimination, or more of a response to receiving gender equality, is shown in the literary work of “the Reasons that Induced Dr. S[wift] to Write a Poem Called the Lady’s Dressing Room”. This work is a reply to Jonathan Swift’s “The Lady’s Dressing Room”, which describes his experience in a Lady’s dressing room. It goes on to describe a woman as some horrid animal, and this experience ruins women for Swift completely. The writing of this poem is in such a negative slander and shows the…

In the textbook Tort Law the authors write, “The common thread interweaving most torts is the notion that socially unreasonable conduct should be penalized and those who are its victims should be compensated. Of course, determining what is unreasonable is a formidable task, because reasonableness like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. The overall goal in defining reasonableness is to balance the plaintiff’s need for protection against the defendant’s claim of freedom to pursue his own…

including rejecting Moses even with the presence of the Tabernacle. c. Even today, you (the Sanhedrin) resist the Holy Spirit, persecute and murder prophets (Jesus), and disobey God’s laws just like your ancestors of the past. d. Accused of blasphemy against God, Stephen used God’s words and God’s history to show how it was they who were not obeying God, not him. Ever since Abraham, the people have resisted God’s chosen people (here I am assuming Stephen is counting himself as a chosen…

Young Goodman Brown: Dancing with the Devil Suppose a person was given the opportunity to do something they have always had wanted to do, and no one would find out. Would they, even though they knew it was wrong? The idea of good verses evil is a common controversy found in literature because it is a relatable conflict of wanting to do something even though it is the wrong thing to do. In the story, “Young Goodman Brown,” author Nathaniel Hawthorne writes about Goodman Brown, a Christian man…

of this can be found in the movie Jesus of Nazareth. At 1:46:52, characters of Jesus of Nazareth are shown going against Jesus when he said that the Kingdom of God was upon them. When they heard this, they reacted to Jesus’s claims as if it was blasphemy and they begin to not believe him. They then proceed to tell him he cannot touch the scroll because of his “dirty hands.” This can be concluded as an example of people following the “path of darkness” being that they are going against everything…

founded upon any biblical truth that I can support. Based upon some of my research and arguments that were presented in “The Word Became Flesh.” Thomas Streilferat, stated that, “Belief in one God is so deeply rooted in Judaism that this would be blasphemy of a departure from monotheism would have been a psychological impossibility. He surmised that the supplanting of erroneous doctrine began to creep into the church by men who refused to be led by the inspiration of God. (1 Tim 3:16) This…