Celibacy

I knew of God, at least what my parents told me at a young age. I will never forget the feeling I had when I was baptized. I was 6 years old. I remember having a tingle all around me, and I knew something was real. This feeling was not made up. I still sometimes think about that tingle and what it meant to me. I was a part of something greater. After that time, I wondered around aimlessly attempting to find that connection with someone else. I drifted away from my calling. I knew the right…

In another essay, The Virgin and the State, Ortner tackles the background and evolution of the pureness ideology of women held within many cultures. While the idea of purity had been around any many societies, the biggest surge in the idea of women having purity begins with the formation of stations and stratifications in society. When states begin to form from hunter-gatherer societies, distinct roles and ranks in society start to emerge. People are divided by wealth, power, and ranks. To rise…

The Catholic Church benefited from the Council of Trent in the Reformation because it addressed issues and complaints. Through this council, the Church enforced celibacy, provided education and training seminaries for priests and stopped the sale of indulgences. Celibacy was enforced by the Church in an attempt to restore integrity because many clerics, including Pope Alexander VI, had children (The editors of encyclopædia britannica). This benefited the Church because…

define a girl’s future. “explores the embrace of celibacy by Sarah Prentice and other Great Awakening "Immortals" who sought ultimate purity and rejected dominant gender paradigms of authority and sexuality. Celibacy flew in the face of long-understood mandates from God that demanded sexuality within marriage” (Sex and Sin.) The article talks about how being raised as a woman in the colonial era you had to be very closed off and classy in a way. “Celibacy flew in the face of long-understood…

Protestant Church follow after Martin Luther, meaning they do allow Priest who are not married to marry. They do not impose celibacy at all. b) The Orthodox Church does not refute a celibate priesthood, that is after all why the priest-monks (monks that are also priests) exist. Celibacy is on a voluntary base and never to be forced upon anyone. c) The Catholic Church does impose celibacy on its priest. Recently some of Eastern Catholic Church has allowed for their priest to marry. The Latin…

Ephrata’s foundation lies on a theology drawn from many different sources, constructed in a complex way, and defying easy explanation or understanding. Even in Conrad Beissel’s day, the thinking and motivation behind the distinctive lifestyle of Ephrata was a matter of speculation and rumor for supporters and detractors alike. Member Michael Wohlfahrt told Benjamin Franklin the community was still learning when Franklin proposed Ephrata publish a creed to silence suspicious critics. “From time…

Romeo and Juliet set the modern day standards of what romantic love is, with some even willing to go to similar tragic extents in the name of this intangible feeling. Why is love so powerful? Is it natural for us to lose ourselves in this fiery passion? And what do world religions speak of such emotions? The notion of romantic love can be defined as the desire to feel emotionally connected to someone else, often described as “the other half” or a “soul mate”. Biologically speaking, such desire…

1984 by George Orwell paints a terrifying picture of a society in which the government has control over every single aspect of the lives of Oceana’s citizen’s. The Inner Party will utilize their secret police, called the Thought Police, to arrest and ‘vaporize’ anyone they believe has a thought which could pose a threat to their control, effectively erasing any record of this person's existence. Big Brother, the leader of this government, has his face plastered everywhere, so the citizens can…

The two Western Culture legacies would be Judaic and Christian Traditions. They both explain rigid gender roles and different types of behaviors that are considered acceptable/appropriate for both males and females. For both Western Cultural Legacies men are more likely to be expected to go out and initiate dates with women, and women are expected to be timid, sweet, clean, and to please her husband, etc… And Men are considered to be “macho” and play sports, and to go out and flirt with women.…

• “Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm”: Sigmund Freud’s theory that a woman has not achieved sexual maturity unless she’s experienced sexual pleasure in her vagina. Enforces heterosexual views of sexuality and enforces the belief that women need men to achieve orgasm; a myth maintained deliberately by men. He also mentions that “if a woman is unable to achieve sexual pleasure even though she has an adequate partner, shows her frigidity and her need for psychiatric assistance”, this statement enhances…