Damnation

get her killed and in the shockingly low amount of time that she has spent with him, she trusts that Romeo will come to get her. Not only is her faith in Romeo one to make her kill herself, but also one to make her mother like figures as “ancient damnation! O most wicked fiend! Is it more sin to wish me thus forsworn… so many thousand times? Go, counselor! Thou…

On July 1741, in Enfield Connecticut, a puritan man delivered a sermon that is still well-known to this day. The man was Jonathan Edwards, and the sermon he gave is called “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.” He uses many rhetorical devices to help get his point across to his people. The sermon is very repetitious, mainly discussing God’s wrath against sinners and hell. The purpose of his sermon was to help his people and sinners to avoid the wrath of God and to convert them into Christians.…

The early Middle-Age poem, “The Dream of the Rood”, attempts to reconcile the vast differences between Christian and Pagan beliefs in order to attract Germanic Pagans to the Christian faith. In other words, the poem supports elegiac beliefs with heroic values to make the Christian faith more appealing to those who still hold on to their ancestral Pagan beliefs. The unknown poet draws on heroic elements of wealth, fame, and honor to enhance the Christian story of the crucifixion. Other Pagan…

John Brown descended from Puritan ancestry, although it is unknown exactly who his ancestors were. Brown himself believed that his first paternal ancestor came to America on the Mayflower and was named Peter Brown. There are several other theories stating that Brown’s ancestors settled in Connecticut or Massachusetts later on. Maternally, there is speculation about when his family migrated to America, but his mother, Ruth Mills, was also of Puritan descent. The Puritan principles that Brown’s…

Torture, for most people using this word usually brings up bad meanings or memories. I think sometimes people will avoid this word or using this word because it makes them uncomfortable. One definition is “intense physical or mental suffering, something that causes pain or to inflict pain upon; to cause to suffer” (Webster’s Standard Dictionary). That does not sound pleasant, other definitions aren’t any better. Another dictionary says it like this “anguish of the body or mind, the infliction of…

and abandonment (Kushner 25) – Louis foreshadows his justification for his actions: “…it should be the questions and shape of a life, its total complexity gathered, arranged and considered, which matters in the end, not some stamp of salvation or damnation which disperses all complexity in some unsatisfying little decision – the balancing of the scales…[Justice]…is…

Jesus makes racist remarks “It is not meet to take the children’s bread, and cast it to dogs” (Blackburn page 12). Jesus also states that mental illness is caused by possession by devils “Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?” (Blackburn page 13). Blackburn argues that Christian apologists will defend the New and Old Testaments, just as Muslim apologists will defend the negative attitudes towards women and infidels Blackburn page 14. Blackburn is showing…

Bram Stoker’s ‘Dracula’ and Oscar Wilde’s ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ both divulge into the theme of faith and doubt. The presentation of faith differs respectively between the authors in alignment with their contrasting perceptions of nihilism versus Christian divinity, as does the use of doubt as a manipulative device in opposition to the intrinsic doubt of nature itself. Doubt and faith are primarily introduced in two different lights. Stoker adopts the convention of the supernatural to…

When the Census results are released later this year they’ll demonstrate that more than a third of Australians are now non-religious. Jumping from 23% in the 2011 Census to as high as 38% (which was the number recorded in a 2016 Ipsos poll), the inexorable march towards a non-believing majority will then be undeniable. Evidently, neither school chaplaincy and the increasingly evangelical Bible classes in state schools, are arresting the freefall in Christian beliefs. Soon classes in Secular…

Selfish ambition is the brother of pain. Spain’s presence in the Americas was the epitome of this. From 1469 and onwards, Spain voyaged to America in search of gold and converts (Freire). Although one of these reasons sounds noble, both caused many people years of pain and death. As shown by Bartolome de Las Casas’s testimony, the occupation of the Americas by the Spanish and their reasons for being there led to more harm than good for the natives. The reasons that Spain came to the Americas, in…