Essays on Religion Page 143

Martin Luther King Jr., Atlanta, 1929 – Memphis, 1968, American Baptist Pastor, defender of civil rights. The long struggle of black Americans to achieve the fullness of rights has since 1955 experienced an acceleration in whose leadership. The young pastor Martin Luther King was soon to stand out. Martin Luther King nonviolent action, inspired by…

“Morality is not the doctrine of how we make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness” (Immanuel Kant). In Cormac McCarthy’s novel The Road, a father and his son, both of whose names are unstated, struggle to survive the results of an unspecified apocalyptic event; inevitably, virtually all life has disappeared and…

The Puritan society was one of oppression and suppression. They were a strict people and looked down on all they disagreed with. As shown in the Jonathan Edwards sermon, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”, they viewed people who did not follow their doctrine to the letter as inferior and doomed to an…

Princess Diana, a women of grace and glamour and Mother Teresa whose inner beauty lit up the whole world, lived in two completely different worlds, but had more in common than their closeness of deaths. These two women were both humanitarians whose mission was clear. They were both set out to help the unfortunate in…

Seven or more wives? What young boy wouldn’t like the idea of having many women, not having to hide it, and it being accepted, approved off, and actually greatly supported and pushed? If you were a Mormon in the 1800s you might have practiced this custom. This is called polygamy, meaning the men were permitted…

A New Strength in Church Ties: The Mormon Response to the Great Depression The State of Utah has a reputation; the Mormon State. Rightfully so, as the majority of Utah is affiliated with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. This religion, while a sect of Christianity, is often looked at as the outcast….

Introduction: Now days that new generation have developed their own lifestyle as very different as before the later generations, many cultures died, forgotten and unexrecised by now. This thing is happening because of now rapidly growing technology, commercializations, industrializations and globalizations. One of the cultures, which have totally affected by these things, is our beliefs….

Abiding love transcends earthly expression, mitigates absence and finds consummation in silence and death. Love as a human reality carries with it the limitations and struggles in its expression and manifestation. Like other dimensions of the human experience it is part and parcel of the human search and struggle for happiness and meaning.  This aspect…

The significance and significance of the Dreaming is cardinal to Aboriginal spiritualty. Each Aboriginal group is connected with the Dreaming and is cognizant its alone individuality is derived from it. Aborigines today, continue to emerge from the Dreaming, yet they are still intensely connected with it till this twenty-four hours. The Dreaming includes all facets…

Introduction Luke was not a Jew, but a gentile. He was aphysician who loved people. The nature of Lukes Gospel is indicated by therole of those from whom he got his materials. They were ministers of theword (7,Laymans). The book was written for a man named Theophilus, who waspart of the Roman Government. Lukes words…