Fundamentalist Christianity

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…

The holy crusades of the late 10th to the 12th century, when you think of the crusades, what do you think? First before we start off the information and what was the crusades and what was the cause of it and what provided to it first take a moment to imagine your view of the crusaders during the time. Do you imagine a valiant and noble warrior coming in from his isolated and peaceful home that was summoned by the calling of the holy leader of the Catholic Church to participate in such a holy…

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). Christian privilege allows religious holidays to be respected under the federal calendar, Christian images and…

Why Muslims Shouldn’t be Banned from the United States On a cold, windy afternoon in October, 13-year-old Malika rushes through the doors of her school as the final bell rings. Her classmates’ jeers and insults echoing around her. “‘Terrorist!’,’Traitor!’, ‘Go back to where you came from!’,” they shout. But this is where she came from. Malika, her parents, and their parents before them were all born here, but her classmates do not care. Malika has done nothing to deserve these foul insults…

1. What is your major? What are you career aspirations and why? How do "moral values and health issues" factor into your future professional/academic work? My major is Health Promotions. My career aspiration is to become an Occupational Therapist. I chose this career because an Occupational Therapist has the pleasure of helping people learn or relearn how to connect with their environment while doing fun activities. Moral values and health issues play a vital role within Occupational Therapy…

Instead of using a personal experience, I want to write this chapter using a story directly from the Bible. In the sixteenth chapter of the book of Acts, we find two men imprisoned for their faith, yet praising God in the middle of the night. During their praises, the plot thickens: Acts 16:25-26 (ESV), “About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them, and suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison…

At face value, the story of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight tells of a knight who is challenged by a Green Knight to show the decline in the knighthood, but that is only the literal interpretation. Throughout the story, there are many parallels to the Christian faith seen. The Green Knight places the young knight in a trial just like God might do to Christians. The Green Knight mentions that if Gawain seeks him, then he will be found which is very similar to when Christ says that if we seek, we…

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…

The Quiet Revolution had a dramatic effect on the Roman Catholic Church in Quebec. Whereas, prior to 1965, the Catholic Church was a dominant cultural and political force Quebec, after 1965 the Catholic Church experienced a dramatic decline in its authority and its role in Quebec society. The people then abandoned the Catholic Church rapidly, and then transferred their allegiance from the Catholic Church to the Quebec state. This created a political vacuum within Quebec, due to the fact that, in…

“Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public” ― Cornel West • God has been the subject of much scrutiny throughout history based on the point of his version of justice. Numerous people call God to be the source of true justice, while others say He is the antithesis of justice and a criminal Himself. God 's sense of justice has been debated for years,while both ethologist and biblical scholars alike, allow themselves to be consumed in this argument. While God has compassed quite…