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- 9571: Buddhism
- ... He was the son of the head of the Sakya warrior caste, in later life he was known also as Sakyamuni. All the surviving accounts of Buddha's life were written many years after his death by followers rather than by objective historians. Therefore, it is difficult to separate facts from the myths and legend in which they are based. From the available evidence, Buddha apparently showed an early interest in ...
- 9572: Christianity and Change
- ... to God when they had problems. Today that doesn't seem to be the case anymore. Traditions have drastically changed. It almost seems as if religion is a dying tradition all together. The signs of death are seen in the declining membership of the mainline Protestant traditions and in both the declining attendance and declining authority now seen in the Catholic and Orthodox churches (Rollins). People are just not going to ...
- 9573: Rabbis
- ... are citing the Bible or Talmud, but because they are "[protecting] the Jewish clay workers' interests" (Vizotsky 52). The idea for Eliezer's oven was thrown out along with his life. His invention was his death. All of this to protect what now would be a labor union. The Rabbis have proven that they have more power than the word of God, that God expected them to extract what they want ...
- 9574: Religions
- ... a cult of war and violence. Over the centuries, it also has developed the ability to instill a sense of holy purpose onto its believers and soldiers, where they go into a battle of certain death for their faith in the jihad, or holy war. Even today, the jihad is still a potent source of conflict and aversion, as the many of the problems in the Middle East center around the ...
- 9575: "Woe be to thee, O Constantinople, seated on seven hills, thou shall not continue a thousand years"
- ... the devastating conquest of the Latins and the importance of religion in the lives of people at that time, we can easily understand their powerful resistance towards the union. In this suicidal way the final death sentence of Constantinople was signed by the hands of its own citizens. They were pessimistically resigned to their fate and preferred to fall in the hands of the infidels, knowing that this is probably the ...
- 9576: Revealing the Mistakes of Puritanism
- ... people in the same way in which he wants to. His views on the righteousness of humanity change from good to bad. Hence, Brown loses his comradery with his neighbors, and he dies a lonely death with no hopeful verse on his tombstone.
- 9577: Victory
- ... here. The reason is because of all of the lifes that he saved and will later be saved. In Romans 5 it says that Jesus died for All Sinners! We are all sinners so his death was for all. When Jesus says that "It is finished", he can also be reffering to the older predictions of Christs' life. There is one in particular that it might have been talking about in ...
- 9578: Strengths and Weaknesses of the Roman Catholic Religion in Modern Society
- ... proof that Jesus existed. To the Christian faith, Jesus is the central figure. A Christian will tell you that the Bible is proof that Jesus existed. The Bible however was written much later, after Jesus' death. Therefore the stories contained have been transferred by word of mouth, which has certainly been distorted and exaggerated. The Shroud of Turin used to be the Christian religion's artifact which was believed to be ...
- 9579: Comparison of Frost's Two Tramps in Mud Time and Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
- ... less in awe of nature and fearful of it. One of these is the poem "Design". It takes two of nature's most innocent characters, the moth and the spider, and then finds a tragic death in their lives. Why must the moth die? Why is nature so cruel? Frost questions how nature can be so beautiful, yet so crazy at the same time. If the world is not guided in ...
- 9580: Confessions in Rhyme: Poetry Analysis
- ... was overpowered, for each and every sailor a kingdom was conquered. Pain was planted into their hearts and minds. A plan for revenge has just been born. Captain Jaggery has made his last wish. His death wish... This relates to what happened after the Rebellion, all reactions that became one. Everyone wants revenge! Rebellion The captain worked them day and night for he had no mercy, because of this they had ...
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