(Hemingway) Every person on earth follows a moral code that defines his or her actions. ... Mersault's lack of compassion in his reaction towards the telegram, builds an image that describes a man who is not bound by the common rules of morality. Beyond his lack of compassion for human existence, Mersault presents no sense of remorse for his crime. ...
Religion is difficult to define. People have their own ways of definition religion. According to Karl Marx, religion is a drug or a force that pacifies the poor and the oppressed, enabling them to accept their lower status in this life and to hope for a better future in an afterlife, in heaven. Reli...
He further defines God's sovereign will as "a reference to the fact that God's choices and decisions are in no way constrained by factors outside himself; also, God's right to choose without being answerable to anyone or anything outside himself" (p. 157, emphasis mine). ... Perhaps, depending on how one defines freedom. ... According to Sproul Arminians define free will as the ability to make choices without any prior prejudice, inclination, or disposition (Sproul, 1986, p. 51). ...
To approach any text we must first have some understanding of what it is we hope to take away from it. In approaching a religious text this understanding becomes even more muddled due to the vast complexities and differences that exist between religion and contemporary thought. To accurately approach biblical thoughts we, as moderns, must learn to "unthink many thoughts" resulting from our present alienation of religion and spirituality. God in Search of Man, a text written almost half a century ago by Abraham Joshua Heschel, is the subject of our present inquiry. This text will, no doubt,...
"Religions "do things" for us, such as helping us to define ourselves and make the world and this life comprehensible for us" (Fisher 4). ... The Buddha: Story of Siddhartha, explains you must have compassion for others and not be influenced from the three types of poison; greed, anger, and ignorance. ...
A position on war taken by the Buddha is as follows, "In times of war/Give rise in yourself to the mind of compassion/Helping living beings/Abandon the will to fight.... The next quote from Lao-Tzu defines the religions view on war, "Weapons, however beautiful, are instruments of ill omen, hateful to all creatures. ...
Firstly I will look at abortion: "Abortion" Abortion can be defined as: "Premature expulsion of the foetus from the womb either done by operation or assisted by medication" The meaning of abortion is quiet clear from its definition. ... Basically euthanasia means killing someone in the name of compassion. ...
