Celibacy

In today’s time, people are watched by the government through security cameras and cell phones. Unlike in the novel 1984, people were watched through telescreens and were allowed no individuality. People think having thoughts is not a privilege but compared to the novel 1984 it is. In the novel having thoughts was not allowed, Winston took a risk by buying a diary and keeping his personal thoughts in it. It was very dangerous seeing that the government could have come in and killed him at any…

to discover more about myself as well as learn exactly how I can use my gifts and personality to better serve Christ in ministry and throughout my life. The results of these three tests, my INTJ typology; my spiritual gifts of music, writing and celibacy; and the fact that I am more suited towards jobs involving arts and communications, can ultimately be utilized as tools of understanding as I continue to grow mentally and spiritually during this current phase of my life. According to the…

The reading for this week consisted of Tanya Erzen’s Straight to Jesus: Sexual and Christian Conversions in the Ex-Gay Movement. Erzen’s work is an ethnography of individuals at “New Hope”, which she states is the oldest ex-gay organization in the United States (Erzen, 2006). Erzen excels at providing historical and social context in her writing along with her ethnographic findings, giving the reader a well-rounded basis to form their opinions from. The “ex-gay” movement is one that is widely…

AVATAR brings to view many different belief philosophies and customs which have also been observed within the Aboriginal and Jain spiritualities. Practices of beliefs such as animism by the na'vi and use of elders are aspects which are very much prevalent in the Aboriginal spirituality. The na’vi mindset of avoiding all unnecessary violence and general life conduct also follow closely to the jain beliefs of ahimsa and the Five Principles of Jainism. These parallels between the na’vi belief…

Megan Reid is an Assistant Professor of Religion at the University of Southern California. Reid states from the beginning of her book Law and Piety in Medieval Islam that the goal of her writing is to show culture effecting law in the Medieval Islamic world using primary sources such as treaties, law manuals, and biographies. Reid uses manuals of law, fatwa collections, chronicles and obituaries to show what it meant to be a good medieval Muslim. The author states that she wants to show how…

become a rational, self-conscious being cannot count against killing it at a stage when it lacks these characteristics - not, that is, unless we are also prepared to count the value of rational self-conscious life as a reason against contraception and celibacy. No infant has as strong a claim to life as beings capable of seeing themselves as distinct entities, existing over time” (Singer 1993). This statement provided goes completely against Immanuel Kant’s perspective on the topic. Singer does…

When tough decisions are brought up there is a thin line between right and wrong when it comes to morality. Morales are principles concerning the distinction between right and wrong or good and bad behavior. While we have been reading Richard Matheson’s novel, I Am Legend we have been discussing the morality of Robert Neville’s actions and decisions about his own survival. From one perspective, Neville must do whatever it takes to ensure his own survival and therefore his actions do not concern…

There are significant differences and notable similarities amongst the Catholic Church and the Lutheran Church encompassing aspects of historical events and figures, key beliefs and values, practices and authority. Significant historical events and figures in the Catholic Church include the Great Schism (splitting of Western, Eastern and Orthodox Church) and the Great Western Schism (saw the Catholic Church break off into Protestant Churches including the Lutherans, Calvinists and the Church…

she felt degraded and unworthy of her husband, expressing to him that she was a disgrace. This indicates that women cared about their worth to men, and unfortunately that is credited by whether or not they were virgins. The prominence of a woman’s celibacy being her only value is implied when Lucretia commits suicide because she could not live anymore, if she was no longer a virtuous woman, even though she did not lose her virginity…

But, the one thing that holds them back is the law. Many states in the U.S banned homosexual marriage due to the fact that marriage between man and woman has been around for the past millennia. Lots of people thinks that same-sex marriage is one of the reasons that and that it supposedly wrecks the balance between traditional marriage and the balance between man and woman that’s supposed to equally balance the differences and family to create a brand- new creation to create man and woman as…