God Is Not Great

The idea of trinity has been an ideological anomaly for many Christians around the world. It is not a Christian idea; Trinities of gods existed in other cultures as well, including, but not limited to, those of Siberia, Persia, Japan, Scandinavia, and Mexico. In Rome they were Jupiter, Neptune, and Pluto. In Babylonia and Assyria, they were Anos, lllinos, and Aos. Among Celtic nations they were called Kriosan, Biosena, and Siva, and in Germanic nations they were called Thor, Wodan, and Fricco.…

The Great Gatsby Final Essay What is Modernism? How does The Great Gatsby fits into the Modernist Genre? Modernism is the veto of truth; it believes that science will save the world. Modernism is also an era of failure, mistake and setback. People are engaged in doing wrong things to others and to their life as well. All they want is to discover new and valuable things for example, money, jewelry, big houses, etc. Modernism happened in the Jazz age or roaring twenties, this period is all about…

“To Rule or Not to Rule” Gods are almighty and powerful beings that stand on the shoulders of mortals and commanding them at will. Who deemed them rulers of the land? Ovid’s Metamorphoses, is a collection of mythological stories carrying the same trend- transformations. In the stories of “Daphne and Apollo” and “The Rape of Proserpine” a God has turned a mortal into a new physical form due to pettiness or protection from another god. In both instances, the gods at fault were told no or simply…

then give my insight on whether or not his solution is successful. The problem of evil in the world is a haunting thought that reside on everyone’s heart once in their lifetime. For years, great thinkers, philosophers and theologians tried to come up with answers to why evil exist in our world. Among these great thinkers is Boethius, a Christian theologian and a philosopher. In his book, Consolation of philosophy, Boethius discussed the problem of evil in the world, and attempts to solve it.…

particularly significant in how we should view worship. The way that we worship, as Pentecostal Christians as apposed to Anglican Christians is very different as they are very focused on works and religiosity do not have as much of a relationship with God. In my own experience growing up in an Anglican school I observed Anglicans version of worship for many years. Being involved in the church I have seen how they worship as a…

The existence of God has been an argument that society has been fighting for years, along with other debates within them. If you believe that God exists, then the argument would be whether or not Jesus Christ is his one true born son. The cosmological argument only deals with the fact that the universe is created by a great designer. Some say that this argument is illogical because one can simply not know whether or not that there is an intelligent creator, and the universe could create itself…

motifs that I thought were the most important were humans being made perfectly in the first attempt, an angry god punishing humans or another god, and women being created after men. Several cultures’ creation myths describe humans as being made perfectly in the first attempt. The god or powerful being only needed one attempt to create what the god then viewed as “perfect”. This motif is a great example of how many cultures view themselves as perfect when humans are first born. These cultures…

Atheists say that a God who is all-powerful, all-knowing and perfectly good shouldn’t allow evil in the world. Why should there be evil is created all that we know? After God flooded the world and this is where we learn of the story of Noah and Ark, God said that He wouldn’t interfere with the affairs of humans because that is why He flooded the earth on the first place. Evil was gaining too much of a foothold in the hearts of humans. God loves us and because it hurt Him so much to have killed…

Gods of Metamorphoses: Orderly Regulators or Brutal Predators? Ovid’s ever-present theme of change in Metamorphoses is reflected often in the reader’s fluctuating perception of the gods throughout the epic. Two perspectives of the gods are presented in the weavings made by Minerva and Arachne in Book VI; Minerva weaves a symmetrical, balanced portrayal that praises the gods and the order they believe they represent in their power to punish humans, while Arachne’s finished product portrays…

making him the king (The Life of Charles the Great. 268-69, #6). Charlemange also went on to Start wars with the Saxons and restrained the Bretons before being in war with the Bavarian (The Life of Charles the Great. 270-71, #9-11). Charlemange was involved in…