The Gods Must Be Crazy

anything that takes precedence in our person over God becomes our Idol, whether intentional or not. The correlation between what that preacher said and The Large Catechism premise of Idolatry is surprising, so much so that the preacher may have studied these prior to that message. However, that sermon is my basis for views on Idolatry in that anything that detracts from God’s preeminence is an idol.…

It leaves the victims family was a ending to the nightmare (Messerli). Our justice system nowadays, is too focused on the perpetrator’s rights. We must go back to what this entire thing was about, protecting the victim. The United States needs the Death Penalty to serve Justice to the those who cannot be changed for the better (Messerli). There are those who say that the innocence factor can make…

An ontological argument is an a priori demonstration of the existence of God. Perhaps one of the most famous ontological arguments presented was by St. Anselm (1033-1109) who was an Archbishop of Canterbury and Abbot of Bec. He presented his argument in his book Proslogion. Anslem’s expectation for his argument was for it to help him understand the nature of God, and possibly persuade a non-believer of the existence of God. First, Anselm describes his way of classifying unknown things as…

believe in God, it is likewise rational to believe in God.…

Radley, Mrs. Radley, their sons Nathan Radley and Arthur Radley. Calpurnia, who is Atticus Finch’s African American maid, said this about Mr.Radley when he walked by their house in the late morning. Calpurnia says. “There goes the meanest man ever God blew breath into”,(Pg 15). I think Calpurnia is saying that Mr.Radley is the meanest man ever to live. Calpurnia is comparing the most evil thing she has ever heard of to the evil Mr .Radley. She is saying that Mr. Radley is the meanest…

after Gods own heart, while Saul was searching for the praise of men. One could even say that David was what God wanted in a king and Saul was what man wanted in a king. David was a very forgiving king as seen in 1st Samuel 26, but Saul was a very unforgiving king as seen in 1st Samuel 18. The man difference between David and Saul is their relationship with God. Both of the men had made mistakes but they both treated them differently. Saul tried to find praise in his people and not in God. This…

evidence in the play that Hamlet obviously feigned fits of madness in order to confuse and through the king and his attendants. When speaking with Horatio with the arrangements for the play, and just before the entrance of the court, Hamlet says, "I must be idle." (III. ii. 85.) This evidently is a declaration of his intention to be "foolish,".…

board by the power of religion. Dionysus religion power was able to have all the females in his side which drove the regulated society crazy. When the soldier in The Bacchae mentioned, “ Now, about these Bacchic women you’d arrested, chained and locked up in the public jail- they’re free, they escaped to the mountains, they are dancing around up there, calling on the God” (Lines 443-446). The segregation created by the power of Dionysus shows how destructive religion can be. The females were…

reading the Bible for the first time. I was so shocked because it was the first time in my life that God was presented to me as a being that lies. What this lead me to think about was whether or not God actually lied or if the prophets were “making things up” or “telling the king what he wants to hear”. In order to determine what actually happened a closer look must be given to the text. A closer look must first be given to 1 Kings 22 because this is where the lie/epistemological problem…

there were the gods who watched over the humans, and doing so, the gods blessed man with a plethora of gifts. Gifts like, doo-dackers, hob-smackers, and willy-wonkers. All of these, however, cannot compare to the phantasmagorical bread tie. The great and all powerful god of toast, Chad, was the first to propose the mystical idea of a bread tie. However, the other gods were like, “Whoa, Chad, are you crazy? A device that can both seal and unseal bread whilst keeping it fresh?! You must be out of…