Founders of religions

Growing up, I was raised as a Roman Catholic and even the thought of someone being a non-believer was enough to make my relatives tremble. I never thought about religion and God much when I was little but I did have quite negative feelings towards going to Church. It’s probably due to waking up 7 year old me at 6:30am on a Sunday morning to get ready for Church, which to me was standing in a cold building while adults read from a big book. Morbidly enough, the only reason I continued to believe…

Our country abides by the separation of church and state, but this interrelationship in our society creates oppression for underprivileged religions. Just like the other –ism’s we have discussed; religious oppression is also structural and systemic. The privileged religion in our society is Christianity; a religion that has become the “normative” in America. Christian hegemony refers to the everyday incorporation of Christianity through “U.S schools, neighborhoods, and workplaces” (228).…

Our world has many different religions but we are only concentrating on Christianity and Hinduism. They have man differences and little to none similarities from different views to leaders. Many think they are more similar but I’m here to prove them wrong. The obvious difference is they are from a different worldview. Christianity is from the Linear Worldview and Buddhism is from the Cyclical Worldview. Linear Worldview, mostly Christianity, believes in a creator and an event that will conclude…

Everyone has their own world in their mind, and in their mind, an ideal world exists, which called, ‘Utopia.’ In “Harrison Bergeron,” the short fiction written by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., equality forms the utopia for the most of the people. They can live without discouragement and frustration from being different, but it brings tragic results to human beings. This story implies that to achieve a utopia of the world, it should not formed with the equality of people’s abilities; it needs to be accept…

This idea first came from the religion Hinduism as a path to eternal life with their god Brahman. Being at the top of the caste meant you were closer to reaching Brahman than the bottom group of people. If you do not reach Moksha, or life with Brahman, when you die, you will reincarnate…

The Struggle to Stay Faithful What if people were taken to a place where they could not speak or act on their own due to their religion? A place where people were tortured and even died because of what they believed. Would that affect the way the people lived and how much they believed in their religion? If people are exposed to this harsh environment for too long, they will begin to lose the faith that they had built up for so long. This is what the Jewish population had to endure during…

Gabriel García-Márquez’s short story “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” criticizes human nature’s brutal and self-serving tendencies. The townspeople, at first the most apparent representatives of humankind, struggle to understand who the old man is, what kind of creature he is, or from where he has come. Upon further analysis, many elements of the story lead to the conclusion that García-Márquez intends to ridicule human nature by exploring the townspeople 's’ reaction to strange man with…

America is called the United States; hence they’re being so many different people with various belief systems. The idea of religion is guiding people with a faith that will ultimately make them make good decisions. The goal of politics is to better the lives of others. Being that America is invested into religion, politicians used the platform of religion to convince people that if they share the same belief systems, then they most likely have the same morals. For instance, Hilary Clinton…

There are many different platforms in history in which people created magnificent pieces of literature like, Walt Whitman’s O Captain! My Captain! or even the ever popular Rosie the Riveter “We Can Do It” poster, that have such a strong rhetorical impact. This impact also extends past the time they were popular but also into the current age because of the effective context that ethos, pathos and logos are used. Sinners In The Hands Of an Angry God by Jonathan Edwards is one of the most…

share similar values with one another. Where a person is born and who that person is around the most, can influence that person’s values and beliefs. These values can change over time and can continue to change throughout the person’s life. Parents, religion, and educational views can also persuade someone into having different beliefs and values. Hopefully, this essay assist the reader in gaining more of an understanding of myself, Christopher Trentham’s, values are and their origin. Values…