Blasphemy

If found guilty, blasphemy was punishable by death. Death by stoning! That worth mentioning because when we think of a death sentence today we think of lethal injection. But this was far worse than being injected with something and falling asleep. This was violent, painful…

The sixth commandment of the Bible states that “thou shalt not kill.”: Certainly, this makes capital punishment wrong. Capital punishment was not made to promote killing but it stands as a god-ordained action for human government. According to the author of The Biblical Truth about America's Death Penalty, Dale Recinella, everyone is deserving of death. The criminal laws that were given to man by God were made to work with a community for both victims and offenders, leading us to ask if certain…

Christians and the crusades. Jews and the Samaritans. Muslims and terrorists. Every religion has moments in their history in which they go against the basic teachings in their holy text. These moments in history are captured through the art forms that were popular during or after the time they were happening. For example, Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice is a play that captures these moments of hypocrisy as it concerns the Jews and the Christians. Many critics look at this play in a new…

“They will throw them into the blazing furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” Many people have heard these words uttered from Jesus himself in Matthew 13:42, however many different depictions of hell have been asserted. In Dante’s Inferno he travels through the depths of Hell and describes what exactly it will look like and feel like and ultimately be like. However is this depiction actually accurate? In multiple areas Dante’s inferno seems to build off the biblical…

high standards as to the way in which a Christian is to conduct his or herself both publicly and privately. Calvin associates certain wrong doings with different suiting punishments. Calvin identifies many offenses but the most striking include blasphemies, contradiction of the word, songs and dances. One type of punishment that Calvin uses in response to these sins involves paying a sum of money. For example, Calvin states that people “who have blasphemed, swearing by the body or by the blood…

crime is that he and his sailor pals trespassed on William Ashby’s property and “vandalized” his land by illuminating his new house with Jack-o’-Lanterns on All Hallows Eve. The Puritans of Wethersfield see this as “ was an outrageous piece of blasphemy” (147). His day of public punishment included sitting in the stocks “from one hour before the lecture till one hour after”(149). He also had to pay a fine of forty shillings, and he is exiled from Wethersfield;if he will get “thirty lashes at…

According to the Bible, Pharisees were the group of lawmakers in the Jewish church. They were very involved in lawmaking, including the law that Moses received from God, however they went to the extreme to make sure the people followed them. Along with being against Jesus’ teachings, The Pharisees were known for being the "Disciples of the Wise". Pharisees were simply common people of a town. However, with their sophisticated scholarly interpretations on the Bible, they were respected on a…

All the wicked individuals who deliberately commit the undeniable and unforgivable sin of disposing of their pure recyclables into the devil’s snare of the landfill shall be cast into the fiery inferno of hell. The burning fires beneath them shall smother them with toxic fumes of burning plastic to cleanse them of the terrible sin they have committed before God. The devil’s snare grows deep and wider as the sins of the human race claw at its edges. The sinners look down before it with no remorse…

Confessions starts off by Rousseau telling us how he grew up in Geneva, Switzerland. Even though he was a bit of a trouble maker he was very kind at heart. His dad also has a knack for getting in trouble and when he get into trouble with the law, that forces his dad to flee Geneva forcing Rousseau to have to move in with his cousin to study Latin and build illegal aqueducts. Rousseau tries his hand at a few professions as an apprentice, but he's just not a fan of the working life. A mysterious…

The books, God and Man at Yale by William F. Buckley and Children of the Alley by Naguib Mahfouz, are both political by showing the struggle between the people who have power and those who do not. In Children of the Alley, Mahfouz shows the struggle between poor people and powerful people that live in a society with no justice system. Mahfouz also critiques religion's role in trying to create justice, and equality. In other words, Mahfouz is critiquing politicized religion. Mahfouz shows there…