Essays on Religion Page 127

In 1947 an Arab shepherd boy was throwing stones at the opening of a cave above him near the shore of the Dead Sea. He heard a jar break and climbed up the cliff to investigate. What he discovered has revolutionized the study of the Bible. There, in that cave, stuffed in jars, were scores…

In “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven”, Sherman Alexie depicts Thomas Builds-The-Fire as a strong and determined character who lives with his stories and doesn’t bother about what others feel about him. Through Thomas Build-The-Fire’s words, Alexie tells us about our path of self attainment in life. He tells the readers, through this…

The Renaissance was a period of cultural evolution that spread across Europe throughout the 14th- 17th century. Began in Florence, the Italian Renaissance had a profound impact in the development of the Renaissance outside of Italy resulting with the Northern Renaissance which included the German Renaissance, the French Renaissance, and other European nations. Although both…

For more than two centuries, the Christian church suffered persecution under the Roman Empire particularly those in Rome. With the rise of Constantine the Great to the throne, the persecution stopped as he was sympathetic with Christianity in view of his famous Christian vision just before the battle at Melvian Bridge against Maxentius in 312…

Catholic Christianity and Islam: A Comparison and Contrast History has always been witness to the myriad of incidents involving bitter human conflicts and misunderstandings. Among these, the thorny issue of religious pluralism has been a constant catalyst for sowing human division and separation. This happens most distinctly when people try to pit one religion against…

Jose Luis de Jesus Miranda is a Puerto Rican leader referring to himself as both the Christ and the Antichrist (Growing in Grace).  He has a large number of followers, publicizes his faith fervently, and yet he is known among the religious folk as essentially a crackpot.  “Jose Luis de Jesus Miranda is a 60-year-old…

Friedrich Nietzsche had his own ideas of right and wrong because he believed that the belief in God is incorrect. Therefore, he proposed what should be considered right and wrong. He suggested disregarding God to the point of assuming that God is dead, which would center the ideas of right and wrong around himself or…

In his 1968 article, On Being an Atheist, H. J. McCloskey attempts to refute the arguments of God’s existence and explain how “atheism is a much more comfortable belief than theism. ” (McCloskey 1968) He first attempts to discredit the Cosmological and Teleological arguments for God’s existence, then he turns to the existence of evil…

Lasallian Spirituality & Laity St. John Baptist de La Salle was born in Reims, France on April 30th, 1651. “At 16, St. John Baptist de La Salle was named Canon of the Reims Cathedral, a position of great honor and financial benefit, and one that placed him on a course for high ecclesiastical power” (Christian…

            One would thin that as we become more sophisticated in our technology, we would also become more sophisticated in our thinking. This is not really the case, and our everyday life reflects this fact, in looking at critical thinking and arguments in daily life.             In this essay we will examine three fallacies that…