… though originally created to fulfill basic human needs, has distorted into an organization with one purpose: To preserve the power center. Functionalist would agree with the basic tenant that religion by its existence fulfills basic need, but in…

… daring and submissive. A lamb is very much like a child. In “The Lamb,” William Blake creates a childlike tone through a very songlike form and structure. What this does is give the poem an innocent view, more in the first stanza than in the second.…

… there lived a demon king. A demon king unlike any other, for though his race — that of the “asura” — were cruel, mean, vicious and heartless, he and his people were everything that they were not. His name was Mahabali. Mahabali was just, kind, generou…

… and Elie Wiesel’s The Trial of God.” Where is God when innocent human beings suffer? This question plagues the minds of people everywhere following disasters and the death of innocents. After the 9/11 attacks, people wondered to themselves why…

… Western attitude that nature must be conquered. In attempting to vanquish nature, our natural environment has been gradually destroyed. Because of man’s attitude toward our planet, the earth’s capacity to sustain life is jeopardized. In the process…

… where their perception changes abruptly; a single moment in their life when they come to a sudden realization. In Langston Hughes’ “Salvation”, contrary to all expectations, a young Hughes is not saved by Jesus, but is saved from his own innocence.…

… pageant that features a double plot, which is there to remind the reader of the dual nature of reality (this world and the spiritual world). The Second Shepherd's Play contains many symbols that not only pertain to the story itself but also speak for…

… Anselm’s Christianity) there are ultimately three types of people in relation to how God deals with them (save or punish). According to Anselm, people can be good and be saved; they can be wicked and be punished; or they can be wicked and be saved.…

… birth of Jesus’ (Luke 1:5), Judaea was described as being subjected to the rule of a foreign power, under the reign of Herod. Although Jesus’ birth was by far the most significant of all time, his was not the only of note to take place during that…

… alike, have had difficulty reconciling the evil of the Holocaust. I feel that for most people, but especially for Jews, that it has been most important for them to hold onto their faith, as it has been their faith that has survived, along with them,…