Idolatry

The Pledge of Allegiance to school children is merely another part of their morning. While it does unify Americans under one flag and one promise, it actually excludes certain groups of people, specifically those who are not members of the monotheistic religion the nation was founded with: Christianity. Fortunately, this could be solved by revising the pledge. However, should the pledge be recited at all? The Pledge of Allegiance was written in 1892 by Francis Bellamy, who actually did not…

Religion is something in people’s lives that alters their thinking about everything around them. Religion, specifically Christianity, is very prevalent in the novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë. Throughout the coming of age novel, Jane is influenced by religious figures she comes across: Mr. Brocklehurst, Helen Burns, and St. John. She is also challenged by worldly desires that require her to choose between pious principle and personal passion such as becoming Mr. Rochester’s mistress and…

He stated that Orthodox Jewish thinkers will not remove life support for life is not man’s to end. This is due to the preservation of life being taken as seriously as idolatry, adultery, and murder. This is also due to the preservation of life being taken as the highest virtue above all else. He also states that artificial nutrition and hydration are viewed as supportive care, being on the same level as washing and grooming…

“Although the Lord hath given the earth to children of men, the greater part of it [is] possessed and wrongfully usurped by wild beasts, and unreasonable creatures, or by brutish savages, which by reason of their godless ignorance, and blasphemous idolatry, are worse than those beasts which are of most wild and savage nature”. This was used as reasoning…

Hrotsvitha wrote liturgical plays that were never performed on stage and became the first medieval woman to write about female spirituality. The main themes Hrotsvit emphasized her writing on was the virginity of woman. In her plays, “Hrotsvit constructs a world in which women’s chastity and asceticism become sources of power and direct links to God and Christ in which male lust is the fault of men, which is seen as un-Christlike” (Wetmore 18). Gallicanus is a satire that focuses on male lust…

What does it mean to be Catholic? There is an infinite amount of answers to that question. If you were to ask author Robert Barron, he would start speaking of Catholic doctrine. If you were to ask author Andrew Greeley, he would start speaking of culture, story and community. Lastly, if you were to ask Dorothy Day, she would start speaking of following Jesus and helping the poor. What it means to be Catholic is a mixture of all three of these individuals, Catholic doctrine, stories and community…

Over five hundred years ago, cleric Diego de Landa approached an abandoned society lost in the jungles of Central America. His findings led him to make assumptions of these people he marked as savages. De Landa denounced these people as “idolatry, divorce, sacrificial, and slave traders” (qtd. in Gibson 13). Nearly three centuries after de Landa’s account, the U.S explorer John Lloyd Stephens noted his discovery of an altar among the ruins of a Central American city called Copán, with the…

The Republicans responded on August 21st with an editorial published in the Aurora penned under the pseudonym “Hancock”. It claimed the nation’s “idolatry” of Washington had continued for too long and American’s “should have no other God than one.” Such religious language marked the beginning of Washington’s fall from infallibility. These criticisms provide important context for the pamphlet campaigns of 1796 because it expanded the growing divide between the proto parties, and set a precedent…

Introduction Can love and destruction be two faces of the same coin? Can God be ‘holy’ and ‘just’, yet hate and hold vengeance? Perhaps the most pivotal argument between skeptics and Christians today is that of the character of God. Most theologians hold true to the character of God as revealed through the Holy Scriptures. They believe, every jot, letter, and tittle are inspired and meaningful; revealing the character of its author. This, however, is harder in some instances than others. Some…

childhood friends elopement just to have Demetrius 's attention for a short time. While the first description of Demetrius is that he had “Made love to Nedar’s daughter, Helena, / And won her soul. And she, sweet lady, dotes, / Devoutly dotes, dotes in idolatry / Upon this spotted and inconstant man” (1.1.4). This view of his dishonesty is repeated when Helena says “For ere Demetrius looked on Hermia’s eyne, / He hailed down oaths that he was only mine” (1.1.9). Already the audience is told…