The Court Movie Reflection

From these two lines, it is obvious right away that the writer is no too fond of religion and the morals it preaches. He apparently feels as if church is a bunch of superstitious people trying to implant these ideas into public minds about how to live their life. Before you even begin to read his poem it is obvious of his dislike for something by the title "Written in Disgust of Vulgar Superstition", you can not tell exactly what his dislike is for until you begin reading. Then the images on lines two and three make you start thinking that his "disgust of superstition" could be a disgust of religious superstition. I feel that it is those images that set the tone for the rest of the poem.

Within the book "The Puritan Dilemma", Edmund S. Morgan writes about the people who were forced to pick between their morals and their societies. Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson were banned since they had refused to accept the Puritan rules, and John Winthrop believe he could not continue in a country where the church remained tainted. The Puritan Dilemma indoctrinated the people, claiming we are all sinners other than the puritans. Everyone is sin and Puritans are saintly. Starting with John Winthrop, a man who was stubborn and strict in the manner he worshipped God, and devoted his life.

As a Christian speaking to the people of Oran, it would be very difficult to say anything to a people facing such terrible affliction. Even though Father Paneloux believed what he was preaching, I believe he was completely wrong. This would make what I would say much different from what Father Paneloux said. However, some strong points did emerge from his sermons. Overall, the two sermons in Albert Camus’ The Plague fail to help people become more faithful and fail to even preach to the people of Oran the truth.

The Herodians hated Jesus because they were afraid that he would take their fame away from them. The last and final of the main groups that hated Jesus was the Chief Priests. They hated him, because they were afraid that he would take their power.2 Now for the illegal proceedings of Jesus' trial. The problem is that Jesus was crucified when Pontius Polite declared him innocent. There are several illegalisms that we are going to look at.3 The first one that we are going to talk about is the charges placed against Jesus.

In the article I’m Fine with God…but I Can’t Stand Christians Who Impose Their Morality on Others, authors Bruce Bickel and Stan Jantz critique the Christian faith’s self ordained position of society’s moral leaders. They write that Christians have no right to be in this position because of their low esteem within the culture, their hypocrisy, their lack of credibility and the blatant rejection by society’s new post-modern view. Bickel and Jantz begin with a discussion on society’s view of Christians, none of which are positive. They state that this is a known fact that even Christians agree with. They then begin to compare the Christians with legalistic Pharisees.

Proctor consistently argues with numerous characters, showing absolutely no regard for what would be considered right or proper. In a chaotic scene that seals his fate, Proctor yells to the courtroom, referring to Abigail, “You are pulling Heaven down and raising up a whore!” (Miller 120). Proctor also prior to this willingly admits to having an affair with Abigail, knowing of the religious and moral tensions that will unfold, thus opening himself up to a multitude of possible punishments. Regardless of this, Proctor continuously rebels against the idea of a perfect Christian man, and supposedly does not attend Church as he is not fond of Reverend Hale, which proves that he has no care for the standards of his current society, and is his own person. Hester Prynne is relatively similar in this concept of rebellion as well, consistently showing to the reader that the A which should bring her shame, instead brings her the power of being “able”.

They said it was God's will, but the reason for this awful punishment was unknown. People wanted answers, but the priests and bishops didn't have anything to say. The people abandoned their Christian duties and fled. People prayed to God and begged for forgiveness. After the plague ended, angry and frustrated villagers started to revolt against the church, this caused the churches to be abandoned.

Why don't you come?" Searching for a handle on the moment and not knowing what to do, Langston remained seated, but he realized that in doing so, he was only hurting his aunt's love for him. She wanted to see Langston saved, and abandoned. It was due to the enormous pressure from his aunt and everyone else in the church that Langston got up. With Langston refusing to get up to be saved, he created a conflict between him and everyone in the church.

The other members of the congregation felt that the sermon “had such a powerful lot to say about faith, and good works, and free grace, and preforeordestination” (183). Twain demonstrates how sermons were no longer effective at converting sinners or motivating saints; instead they had been reduced to a series of... ... middle of paper ... ...ned those who helped slaves achieve freedom. Huck rejects the salvation offered to him by the religion of his society, and instead chooses to “go to hell” (246). Huck rightly observes that “you can’t pray a lie” (246). This was the state of religion in Huck’s society.

Through church he discovered that there was no love in the church; “I really mean there was no love in the church. It was a mask for hatred and self hatred and despair.”( Baldwin,pg 39).People use the church to outrun their sins and hate within themselves, it was just a cover up for their true feelings. The Fire Next Time shows that not being white is flaw in they eyes of the white community. Only this could a flaw if Negroes truly believed what they were being told, “You can only be destroyed by believing that you really are what the white world calls a nigger.” (Baldwin, pg 4). But like Machiavelli said “If he thinks about the carefully he will see if he tries to acquire certain qualities which seem good he might lose his power.” Because Baldwin confidence never wavered about being flawed it gave him power