The Wilds Christian Association

people of Salem. As Proctor is questioned of his loyalty to God when Parris sarcastically proclaims, “Such a Christian will not come to church but once a month!”(Miller 91). An ad hominem argument is used when one is attacking the person instead of the argument he is providing. John Proctor was attacked using suspicions of his religious values while trying to prove his wife a pure Christians. His proven loyalty to God would give him credibility, but Parris used it against him during John’s…

Marisa Saia Professor Gaughan WSC 002 21 March 2017 The Evolving Perspective of Wilderness In the beginning, Judeo-Christian tradition shaped people’s ideas of wilderness. It was an area alien to man. They led man to believe that they could not survive in uninhabited land. People, at this time, believed that a drought and the resulting wilderness was brought upon by the Lord as a curse in order to show his displeasure. As stated in the Old Testament, “The ancient Hebrews regarded the wilderness…

He begins the essay by invoking “English psychologists,” or, put differently, those thinkers who attempt to explain human morality through such mechanisms as principles of association. Nietzsche believes that we need a critique of our moral values. This inquiry and evaluation into the value, or realistic benefit, of our values themselves requires that Nietzsche provide some sort of actual history, or genealogy, of morality. Nietzsche's…

the pastor. 2.4.1 Pastor as a Shepherd The word 'Pastor' is a term that is derived from a Latin word which means shepherd and it is widely used in Old and New Testament metaphorically. Alastair Campbell explains, “in view of its leadership associations it is perhaps not surprising that shepherd or 'pastor' became a term to describe the leader of a congregation” (Campbell 30). The scripture uses the imagery of the shepherd and sheep to stress on the importance of the task of pastoral care.…

The most debated and controversial form of censorship is the banning of books in school libraries and classrooms. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Call of the Wild, The Catcher in the Rye, and To Kill a Mockingbird are just a few of the books that have been expelled from the American public schools. Of course most schools don’t follow this ‘regulation’ and actually encourage their students to read books from the banned book registry. Teachers love challenging their students and trying to…

The Cold War lasted nearly 45 years because neither the United States nor the Soviet Union wanted to compromise their political or religious ideals. Both nations considered their way of thinking to be the best, and the looming threat of nuclear warfare further escalated the tension. A stalemate resulted from the countries’ inability to address their differences, especially those on politics, economics, and religion. When the United States and the Soviet Union began to address their differences,…

He relates the men to toads, writing “a toad and they/Were born the very self same way” (134). Readers of his time would most likely be aware of the use of the toad and frog in Christian symbolism as an “unclean spirit” and a sign of plague, making the association between the mollies and the symbolic impurity and maliciousness of toads. Ward also creates a metaphor comparing the sodomites to swine. He relates how pigs are “nurs’d up in filth” and “wallow belly deep in…

different, but in fact, share a similar origin. That origin is God’s creation of the world and the attempt to better one’s understanding of the gift He has provided us with. For instance, according to Lawrence S. Cunningham, part of our worldview as Christians is that “The world is not self-sufficient or self-explanatory. It was called into being (i.e. created) by a free and generous God” (3). This demonstrates how because the world is not self-explanatory, we utilize science to gain a better…

that have a very shallow premise (Stuart, 2008). The background on mental health reveals that while the world has modernized in many spheres and most myths and stereotypes have been discarded over time, the stigma that exists in the handling and association with the mentally ill is still persistent. Ideally,…

(Humane Society International) This statement and comments made by Furlong and other critics are amiss without supporting evidence or research. According to the California Biomedical Research Association, “Chimpanzees share 99% of their DNA with humans, and mice are 98% genetically similar to humans.” These statistics prove the correlation of biological construction between animals being tested and humans. Employing a creature so closely connected…