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If God Did Not Exist, Would Morality Exist?

the idea of punishment; the God of the Old Testament is particularly fierce in his judgments. So perhaps morality is in reality f...

Examining Two Aspects of Islamic History

son or "the good shepherd" who leaves his flock in order to find a lost sheep (VanBuskirk). Paul pointed out this change in the co...

Puritan Character Usage by Nathaniel Hawthorne

as a "sweet moral blossom" for the reader (James). Hawthorne thus identifies the story at the outset as a parable that is designed...

Accepting God and Conflict Resolution

"probably influence a greater number of important decisions than do statistical projects, opinion polls, consultants reports or ev...

Fifteen Year Old Student's Personal Essay

Oakham School has given me the opportunity to develop as a student of art, dramatics, and sports. Over the...

Jesus is God

He was the promised Messiah: The woman said to Him, "I know the Messiah is coming" (who is called Christ). "When He comes, He wil...

Revelation and Gospels Portrayal of Jesus

Greco-Roman thought and tradition. Nevertheless, traditionally, Christian scholars have been extremely reluctant to give credit fo...

Belief in the Gods and Plato's Practice of Open Inquiry

has many flaws. There is question as to whether or not the method really gets to the truth at all. In fact, one has to wonder whet...

Should The Church Be Marginal To Society

of England. If something that catastrophic were to happen today, would the Prime Minister respond to save the church? One can onl...

The Gods of the Iliad and the Bhagavad-Gita

without specifically worrying about success or failure, "they cannot be stained by action" (Harrison, 1996). Hearing this, Arjuna ...

Herodotus and Ancient Leaders

of the Persian Empire" (Herodotus, 2006). Herodotus begins his story with "an account of the first western monarch to enter into c...

God and Sin

God says, "Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil" and then "sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to til...

On Loving God By Bernard Of Clairvaux

loving God for our own sakes but then, we are able to love God for Himself. Question: Does Bernards work support the notion that...

Personal Vision Of Leadership

The transformational leader is one who creates a vision and a challenge for employees (Bryant, 2003). Burns, who initially postula...

Peter Kreeft/Fundamentals of Faith

one thing causing another to come into existence. While scientists can argue persuasively that the Big Bang was the beginning of t...

Evil in a World Created by God, Who is Good

for permitting evil; a reason of which we are not aware. And as long as this is logically possible, there is no contradiction betw...

Without God, Would Morality be Possible?

existence as fact. However, the existence of God still remains unproven; the Cosmological Argument has been raging for centuries a...

Gilgamesh, Enkidu and the Gods: “The Epic of Gilgamesh”

established and has sex with a woman and thus loses some of his superior strength. He became more human but "his understanding had...

'The Spirit Catches You And You Fall Down' And 'The Great Mortality' - How People React To Catastrophe

no matter how harsh - are based within the foundation being forced to cope with unmitigated stress, fear and anger. Another simil...

Articulations of Race

claims; both accept that "cultural features and identity claims" fail to adhere to any standard of predictability (Bentley 25). Wh...

Young Children And Play: Developing Magical Outdoor Spaces And Healing Gardens

of creating magical outdoor spaces and healing gardens - not the least of which includes Burpee Seed Company and the University of...

Using Comedy To Explore Social Issues

great deal of the humor arises from the plays comic premise, which calls tends to suggest that the title of the work is something ...

Moral Relativism

boundaries. Being judgmental of others is not an advantageous characteristic for anyone to exhibit; it is no secret that each per...

Herodotus: Reliable And Comprehensive Account Of The Persian Wars?

then took this reality and spinned it to contest the uncontestable and knew there could be no definitive answer, which he believed...

Rise of Modern Art

(Modern Art Movements, 2008). Impressionist painters, such as Manet, Claude Monet and Edgar Degas, preferred to paint outside, w...

Laura, In Williams’ Glass Menagerie

to by Jim in very earthy, concrete terms that nonetheless indicate that she is pretty. When she says that blue "is wrong for-roses...

Hesse’s Siddhartha, A Reflection

researching this topic should relate some incident/knowledge that he/she gained from personal experience versus formal education. ...

Forensic Pathology Of Sudden Unexplained Death

and process evidence with the intent of catching the perpetrator. While not all sudden unexpected death is of a criminal nature, ...