Jesus

Surely everybody, who knows who Jesus Christ is, have been taught and have heard of how he was crucified on the cross for the sins of mankind. Well, while I was reading, I began to realize that Christ being crucified on the cross is being pictured throughout the whole book. In fact, the murderer uses the process of the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ as his plans for his killings. Each step he used in killing his victims is similar to what happened to Jesus. However, the fullness of true compassion…

Jesus Christ is without a doubt one of the most polarizing figures in history. His life and work have changed the course of the world and the fate of millions. Within his own time, Jesus was a controversial figure in the viewpoint of the Jews and the Romans. To the Jews he was a blasphemous heretic, To the Romans, he was a dangerous inciter of Judaic nationalism and rebellion. In the modern era, Jesus is hailed as the leading figure in Christianity and the role it took in history. Many factors…

Professor Poole’s intentions on the assignment, ‘Stepping on Jesus’ was not to provoke outraged, but instead to lead the students on developing critical thinking minds. We as students have been socialized to only hold certain thoughts and beliefs in which it creates a barrier on the access on becoming better critical thinkers and having our own independent judgment. In our self-governing culture, mass media is the dynamic influence of public opinion. Media sources such as newspapers, television…

on a basis of faith. Those who share the same religion also share a common way of life and behaviors connected through faith. However, one’s definition and practice of a particular religion can completely differ from another. In the documentary Jesus Camp, religion is taken to a different level from most of society’s standards. On the other side of the spectrum, the Christian children and mentors in the film believe their practice to be a mundane, ordinary way of life. Who defines what is…

She then goes on to say that Muslims train their children to fast during Ramadan from the age of 5 and how Muslims train children to do violent things for the sake of Islam, but then she gets the children to raise to their feet to tell Jesus that they are ready to be trained, and they are ready to do and say whatever in Jesus’s name and then has them chanting and behaving as if they are under mind control. It is clear to me that the woman in this film is a fundamentalist as she clearly…

Some of these impacts are still in affect to this day. Jesus was one who was mentioned throughout the letter. King explain how he was a hero of joining together with the power of love. “ ‘Love you enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you’ ” (par 27). Jesus was and still is considered a hero because he showed people why we should all love one another. Jesus went to the extent to show us why we should love…

Jesus once told a story about two very different kinds of prayers. The first person that prayed was a very religious person called Pharisee, they thought their own goodness was so impressive that it could not fail to make them acceptable to God. The Pharisee in the story is the essence of one who is self justifying. He does not ask for forgiveness for his sins, because he believes he has nothing to confess. If we are broken hearted over our sin we can be assure of Gods boundless love and…

Jesus Camp is a documentary film released in 2006 where directors Hedi Ewing and Rachel Grady document the events of an Evangelical children 's camp located near Devils Lake, North Dakota. The documentary focuses on the camp its self and the Evangelical Movement, but also on its leader, Becky Fischer, and three of the children in the documentary, Levi, Rachel, and Tory. This film is meant to provide a supposed un-biased look into the camp, and also the Evangelical faith its self. Clearly however…

The reading for this week consisted of Tanya Erzen’s Straight to Jesus: Sexual and Christian Conversions in the Ex-Gay Movement. Erzen’s work is an ethnography of individuals at “New Hope”, which she states is the oldest ex-gay organization in the United States (Erzen, 2006). Erzen excels at providing historical and social context in her writing along with her ethnographic findings, giving the reader a well-rounded basis to form their opinions from. The “ex-gay” movement is one that is widely…

of slavery was the presence of Jesuit missions. Beginning with their arrival in Brazil in 1549, the Sons of the Society of Jesus sought to fulfill what they saw as a divine mission aimed at conquering “the power of hell which had ruled the vast Empire of Brazilian Paganism for more than six thousand years.” Although based on its name and stated mission, the Society of Jesus may seem to be a benevolent organization, this analysis will demonstrate that the…