Criticism of the Bible

significant inaccuracies”. This is one of the most commonly read and loved poems in American history. It is about an American patriot, but it is told in a way that Longfellow choses to write it, not always recording what really happened. The biggest criticism is that it gives Paul Revere all the credit for making the ride alone, while three riders collectively performed it. “LISTEN, my children, and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the eighteenth of April, in…

drive her blood pressure so high that she has a heart attack and (presumably) dies on the street. In “Good Country People,” a young girl named Hulga feels as if she is above everyone in her family, and longs to leave them far behind, until a young “Bible salesman” named Manley Pointer visits her home in the country. Julian in Flannery O’Connor’s story “Everything that Rises Must…

human race continues because of folly. In such a way, Erasmus, uses the personification of Folly to be able to criticize those who claim themselves to be devout Christians and the overall Christian perspectives of his time, However, through these criticisms, Erasmus brings forward truth behind the foolishness of blindly following and truly not knowing, through the constant reference to the cliche “ignorance is bliss”. Throughout the piece it is clear that Erasmus is allowing “any reader who is…

As a child, she looked for clues in her late mother’s bedroom, but found none except for a single maple leaf tucked inside a page of the Bible. After leaving her father’s home for a job in the city, she ends up marrying a man after he told her she resembled a maple tree without knowing her name. With her husband, Maple continued to search for what her name could truly mean, why her mother…

fail to realize is that the arts give believers another opportunity to honor God and utilize our gifts and talents for Him. Other people's creativity can also help us even when we don't realize that they do. In C.S. Lewis’s book, An Experiment in Criticism, he wrote that “Good reading, therefore, though it is not essentially an affectional or moral or intellectual activity, has something in common with all three” (Lewis, 138). Just like love, the arts allow us to escape from our own self into…

through a time of intellectual movement that helped ignite the French Revolution. Moliere’s Tartuffe (1669) and Voltaire’s Candide (1759) are two stories both received heavy criticism and censorship because of their ideals against religion. In this time era, it was difficult to write stories and share beliefs that were not in the bible or shared by the king. Both these authors challenged the authorities and questioned the social class system. Tartuffe was a play filled with humorous satire that…

The historian and author John Dickson, one of Australia’s advocator for Christianity, has dedicated his career trying to present the Christian faith to the public in a clear, measured and respectful way (Centre for public Christianity n.d.). John has devoted himself to support and strengthen Christian values by contributing with a vast amount of academic work and historical research; which has brought flawless evidence to one of the World’s most controversial beliefs that have shaped our world…

Many classical pieces of widely disseminated world literature, such as the Bible, nurtured a universal patriarchal culture that remains prevalent today. Some would argue that this patriarchy, supposedly founded on the principle that women are physiologically and intellectually inferior to males, suspiciously resembles a fear-induced endeavor to control the female race and society as a whole. One common method of control relies upon the dictation of what females can or cannot do with their bodies…

King starts out polite, therefore keeping the highly respected priests from ignoring his claim. "But since I feel that you are men of genuine good will and that your criticisms are sincerely set forth, I want to try and answer your statement in what I hope will be patient and reasonable terms". King continues being respectful then slowly builds until he is hypocritical. "But despite these notable exceptions, I must honestly…

Not everything is meant to be taken literal, not even the Bible but most definitely not Marx 's Communist Manifesto but because of its literal meaning millions lay dead for no good reason but for the spread of Communism. In Marx 's manifesto it stated "You must, therefore, confess that by "individual" you mean…