Fornication

Lust is a powerful emotion, but it’s a deadly addiction too. Lust can make one do things that could permanently alter their future, such as getting married at a young age. Dreams could be compromised, friendships could be torn, and for the most important part: your confidence and independence could be diminished. The government should set an age limit on marriage due to the effects on the brain, potential career development, emotional complications, and false claims of the entertainment industry…

was the founder of al-Qaeda, the organization that claimed responsibility for the September 11 attacks on the United States, along with numerous other mass-casualty attacks against civilian and military targets. He was a Saudi Arabian, a member of the wealthy bin Laden family, and an ethnic YemeniA major component of bin Laden's ideology was the concept that civilians from enemy countries, including women and children, were legitimate targets for jihadists to kill.[51][52] According to former…

At times when individuals become wrecked by reality, they tend to cast astray from realism and begin to survive within the depths of delusions and illusions. And so because of their choices to elude from the harsh reality, they lose themselves among waves of self-oppression and in the course of time suffer from differentiating what is reality and deception. An individual who fled from her cruel past and the reality that substantially made her the epitome of psychological hysteria is Blanche…

Augustine, a Saint for Our Times. Today we see that selfishness is one of the biggest impediments for some people becoming a member of the Church. We see day in and day out that some people in this age are self-absorbed and self-important. They care for no one, but themselves and their personal gratification. This gratification comes in many forms, but the most prevalent is sex in this hookup culture that we live in. This is exactly why Saint Augustine is a saint for our day. Saint…

John Pagans Anne Orthwood’s Bastard takes place in Colonial America in the year of 1663. Anne Orthwood was an indentured maidservant from Bristol, England that immigrated to the Colony of Virginia with her master; Jasper Cross. Leaving Bristol for the fictitious opportunities that everyone in England expected when traveling to the New World, her indenture was sold to William Kendall to help pay for her voyage to Virginia. William Kendal; who was originally indentured, became the most prosperous…

In the Crucible, written by Arthur Miller we explore the Salem witch trials of 1692. Throughout this play we see the struggles and success of John Proctor and Elizabeth’s rapport. Their views of one another change throughout the course of this play because of the events, or occurrences that have taken place. They went through a time of losing trust and not knowing what to believe, mostly Elizabeth. As you read the Crucible you will get a better understanding of their relationship and the…

Bruce W. Longenecker’s book Lost Letters of Perfamum has been a delightful easy read. This book is both educational and easily entertaining. The book is a fictional account of letters discovered in the city of Pergamum that once belonged to Antipas, the martyr mentioned in Revelation 2:13 who died in Pergamum. These letters inspired what Longenecker produced which is to be although fictional but seems more of a narrative to the history that is going on. Longenecker’s Antipas was a Roman…

venture to decriminalize prostitution. It is the position of this paper that decriminalizing prostitution will create a moral burden on all. Imagine a religious leader whose congregation is largely made up of sex workers; will he still preach about fornication or idolatry? Again this paper suggests that instead of boosting women self-esteem, decriminalizing prostitution will worsen it. Women will now be a commodity bought and sold in the open market. It will erode on the very rights they and…

Love was regarded as a divine obligation. Unlike Christian idea, there was no restriction of choosing lovers (The Ring of Dove, page). However, there should be neither monkery nor overindulgence in sex (Mckay et al. page). Fornication was also a sin (Qur’an, “A Code of Personal Behavior”, sura 17:22-39). Even at a special time, there were still restriction and freedom coexisting. For example, In the month of Ramadan, people could not have sex during the daytime, but when the…

Stratification through Sex Regulation Throughout history the regulation of sex and race have always been synonymously manifested through distinctions and barriers. However, the fifteenth-century to the eighteenth-century, through the statutes, there was an increase development in racial stratification by regulating sex, changing identification, and therefore dehumanizing and subjecting both women and slaves. The excerpt, Virginia Regulates Sex among Servant, Slaves, and Masters and Kristen…