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- 5531: Liberty in the Gospel: Galations 5:1-12
- ... deals with this passage. The fact that more people today accept a number of myths about Christianity, with the result that they never respond to Jesus as He really is. The myth that Christianity stifles personal freedom. That is a major myth in today's pagan world. A myth that is keeping plenty of lost people from knowing the fullness of life. The passage deals with circumcision and uncircumcision. This was ...
- 5532: Hinduism
- ... of Vishou. Vanishism worships Vishnu in one or all of his ten Vishou incarnations. Vanishism includes many different sects. Two important sects are the Srivaisnavas, and the Devaitis of South India. Vanishism focuses on a personal relationship with a loving, caring, and gracious god. Saivism incorporates yogic and other mystical practices into its worship. Saivism is divided into a few groups. Kashmir Saivas from the Lingayats and the Saiva Siddhantins of ...
- 5533: Revealing the Mistakes of Puritanism
- ... were holy. When he loses his faith, he loses his happiness. To regain his happiness, Brown must find his righteousness again. Puritans believe there is no hope for a sinner. Hawthorne uses a variety of writing techniques to condemn the rigidity of Puritanism. For example, Hawthorne uses a wide variety of diction to create a mystical and hopeless mood. As Brown walks into the “dreary” forest, an “ uncertain” feeling comes over ...
- 5534: Prayer in Schools: To Pray, or Not to Pray?
- ... of silence. And the third tells about a school who has a moment of silence after the pledge of allegiance, and the community is angered because this is supposedly just another form of prayer. My personal belief is that prayer should not be aloud in our nation schools. I myself am a practicing Christian, and choose to pray on my own before tests, and at other times, but I strongly feel ...
- 5535: The Transcendental Movement of 1830s
- ... Transcendentalism ist that it had "borrowed from many sources and reconciled few of them."19 It was never united by a set program. Transcendentalism was comprised of the various interests and labors of many different personal concepts. Therefore, there were many conflicting values which made it an unsteady system to follow. At the time of the Transcendentalism movement, "it preached, practiced, an idealism that was greatly needed in a rapidly expanding ...
- 5536: George Berkeley: His View of God
- ... In truth, it is the immaterialist position that seems the most logical when placed under close scrutiny. The initial groundwork for Berkeley's position is the truism that the materialist is a skeptic. In the writing of his three dialogues, Berkeley develops two characters: Hylas (the materialist) and Philonous (Berkeley himself). Philonous draws upon one central supposition of the materialist to formulate his argument of skepticism against him; this idea is ...
- 5537: Essay on the Intrinsic Flaws Inherent in Christianity
- ... is not, however, the case. Nowhere else in the Bible is this mentioned or even hinted at. These events are then, at best, highly unlikely to have occured. The fact that Matthew is alone in writing of the resurrection of the saints leads us to believe that certain writers of the Bible had differing views on christianity. The christian Bible is highly contradictory, not just to modern day christian beliefs, but ...
- 5538: Edgar Allen Poe
- ... other writers) believed that the death of a beautiful woman was the most poetical use of death, because the death of beauty was tragic. After establishing subjects and tones of the poem, Poe started by writing the stanza that brought the narrator to interrogate the raven, this brought the poem to it´s climax, in the third verse from the end, Poe worked backwards from this stanza and used the word ...
- 5539: Mr. Flood’s Party: A Cry for Help
- ... convey the serious tone revolving around the overall theme of the poem. Robinson’s attitude towards Flood’s dealing with his alcoholism and its effect on his life is understood through the tone of his writing throughout the poem. The tone in the beginning reflects a man alone, but content with himself. Throughout the majority of the poem flood is depicted and feels like a man drowning in his own sorrow ...
- 5540: Ozzy Osbourne
- ... war or the killer of giants. Mother Nature people state your case without its worth your seas run dry your sleepless eyes are turning red alert.” In this song you can tell that he is writing about politicians as (giants) and how they aren’t stopping the wars and how the people try with protests but the wars still go on with or without them. Ozzy becoming a father helped him ...
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