Essays on Religion Page 103

When I was given this assignment on the first day of class I was concerned about how someone would take it if I walked up to them and said “You’re black and I’m white, want to do an interview on it?” or if I walked up to a gay person and said “You’re gay and…

There has been a growing debate on whether religious education should or should not be offered in public colleges. While some people view religious education as an important subject matter for students whereas some people oppose religious education because they are concerned about students being indoctrinated and confused about the values taught in college vs…

Christian worldview. The first is the question of origin, this explains such topic as how did life begin, and how did humans come to exist. The biblical worldview says that “everything that exists, including humans, is the result of God,” (Wider & Guttering, 2013). This can be proven by the following scriptures, Genesis 126 and…

            Fretheim begins his theological interpretation of Exodus 3 by providing an insight into theology and the role that it can play in interpreting and understanding the bible.  He believes that the bible is predominantly a theological book and thus he is interpreting it as it was written, not providing a theological interpretation of it. …

The growth of Christianity in the first four centuries AD and its transformation from being unknown to becoming a significant force in the Roman Empire has been credited to factors like divine intervention and supernatural occurrences. However, it is crucial to explore this phenomenon further and obtain a more thorough understanding of its intricacies. Rodney…

1. The unification of India came about when the Persian emperor Darius crossed the Hindu Kush Mountains and conquered portions of northwestern India; there he established the kingdom of Gandhara in present-day Punjab. Achaemenid authority in India shed light on Persian techniques of administration to local rulers. A few centuries later, Alexander of Macedon crossed…

Why Does God allow suffering? This question is probably as old as religion itself. It is a stumbling block for some of us, and for many more at given moments of tragedy. There are as many answers to this question as there are people who care to engage in theological dialogue. One understanding is that…

The Gods Must Be Crazy This film was a mash up of three separate stories – the journey of a Bushman to the “end of the world,” the romance between a researcher and a school teacher, and a group of revolutionaries fleeing persecution. The story begins with Xi and his tribe of Bushman members living…

Would you trust him enough to be in a room alone with him? Many people would probably answer no to this question. They would assume he is a terrorist or part of a terrorist group. Why? The flaws he holds are all in how he looks. Just because he is a Muslim and people recognize…

It was a particular time of the year, when foreigners or as some call them “khawajats” visit our country, Sudan. Hours went by, and nobody opened their car windows to hand me money. Despite that, I couldn’t help but notice how complex and sophisticated the cars were. The shiny gloss that appears every time the…