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The Passover

slaves rather than honored guests. Four hundred years later, God sent Moses to the current Pharaoh with the demand to allow the H...

Three Historical Points

found seems to be religious in intent, but no one is sure (Swanson, 1998). The civilization reached its height in about 2500 BC an...

A Memo to Constantine the Great: Recommendations for Christian Church Architecture

primarily made up of those who have not accepted Christ as their Savior. It is important, therefore, that we take careful, calcul...

Evil in C.S. Lewis’ Perelandra

beings. But there arrives a man, Weston, who seems possessed by a demon and tries to convince Tinidril to sleep on fixed...

Benefits Of Profiling In Fighting Terrorism

to become terrorists also share certain characteristics, traits, and backgrounds. One of the challenges in arguing for the pract...

Edward Jones/The Known World

As this suggests, the novel abounds in paradoxes. Moses, the cruel overseer, did not murder his wife and child, but actually sent ...

Fair and Accurate? Evaluating Constantine’s Conversion

there is also the possibility that his refusal to do away with pagan practices entirely is because of his own adherence to them. ...

The Influence of Medieval Christianity on Art of the Time

version is richly colored; Mary here wears a bright red robe as does a man who might be Joseph, who is in the background (Adoratio...

Argument: Blaise Pascal’s Statement about Religion and Evil is Wrong

..., 2008). Blair sharply differentiated religious faith and extremism, noting that in the past decade, we have seen numerous "ac...

A Clockwork Orange and 1984

Burgess poses basic questions regarding the...

Themes of Cultural and Moral Relativism

tribes would simply allow certain effeminate men to take on female occupations (153). Seemingly, their plight was accepted. They w...

Japan and Spreading Western Religion

that they were in contrast to many of the characteristic elements of Japanese culture (4). By 1564, some say that the missionarie...

Symbolic Analysis of 'The Tyger' Poem by William Blake

the speaker--and the reader -- know that the answer is God. By using a question, Blake is questioning why a benevolent deity would...

Judaism, Christianity, Religious Misinterpretation, and Environmental Problems

into the premier representation of Christianity, Jesus was to occupy a dual role within the religious world. He did not eschew hi...

Defense of the Monster in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Monster, who is Frankensteins technological "son." While having the stature of a full-grown adult. Shelley makes it clear that the...

Modern World Strategies and Religion

They believe that there is only one acceptable religion and that is theirs. Things are beginning to change in modern society, how...

Good versus Evil in Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya

the old and sick. There was always room in the safety and warmth of la familia for one more person, be that person stranger or fri...

Aristotle's Perspectives on Evil

originally? Even if it is passed on to future generations, or victims, it has to come form somewhere. While some say it is origina...

Art and Europe's Christianity Rise

of art etched into wood tablets, metal and on engraving plates. The religious overtones were highly pronounced and most of the wor...

God's Doctrine as Interpreted by Gordon Kaufman, Pamela Young, and Sallie McFague

evil, was literally personified in the body of evil curses, evil spirits and superstitions. Now, of course, for the most part peop...

Good and Evil Humanity in Billy Budd by Herman Melville

(Melville 2435). The crew were drawn to Billy Budd like a moth to a flame, and Melville wrote, "They all love him... Anybody will...

Themes of Good and Evil in Stowe's Novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin

There can be no doubt that Stowe intended her novel to be more of a religious than sociopolitical text. It includes close to 100 ...

Literature and Human Evil

of Dr. Frankenstein. However, in all honesty it is not the monster who is evil. The monster tries to learn, tries to find a place ...

Blackness in Young Goodman Brown and Betrothal in Santo Domingo

"black heart," but each kept some number of people at bay, not letting those individuals enter the inner recesses of either their ...

Hagia Sophia or the Church of the Holy Wisdom

analyzed the chemical composition of the cement through the use of an electron microscope. One of the scientists on the team descr...

Religious Rituals of Judaism and Christianity

offers the marriage contract, and the woman accepts: this is a contractual obligation which can only be broken by death or divorce...

Early Christians' Success Factors

understand the draw to the marginalized groups such as the converted Jews, but to see the evidence which supported the recruit of ...

'Paradise Lost' by John Milton, Christianity, and Classics

very important fact when considering the relationship between the classics and Christianity in Miltons poem by stating the followi...

A Ficticious Literary Panel Discussion

its extreme, I pointed out the evil being perpetuated against the Irish." Lady Macbeth interrupts, "I am familiar with this wo...

Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche

aside and did not dig any deeper--there is also something suspicious in it." " (Nietzsche 257). It is here that the philosopher im...