The Catholic Church stance on capital punishment recognizes the right for the authority of states to impose the death penalty, but it strongly believes that individual governments should rarely exercise the rights to do so. "We can never condone the deliberate taking of a human life created in...

Putting the words atheism and morality in the same sentence might raise an eyebrow or two. Many people believe that Atheists do not have morals because they do not believe in a god. I, however, disagree with that statement. Not researching the beliefs, or non-beliefs, of atheism causes assumption...

Joe FishburnRhetoricMr. ThielP.9Sacred Cow: Church equals MoralityThere is a notion that has been passed on from generation to generation that going to church institutes morality. This is a huge misconception. Morality cannot be trivialized by religion. Morals come from respect for nature, respec...

\"God gives life, and only God can take it away.\" Do you agree or disagree? Give reasons for your answer, showing that you have considered more than one point of view. I do agree with this statement, as I believe that if God gave us the right to life, then only God can take this right away. Genesi...

Marina Shubin Religion or women right to chose More than 200 diverse religious groups in the United States have different and mutually inconsistent views about abortion. But do religious views about abortion should interfere with our constitution and women rights. The Roman Catholic C...

Scientists have been now using stem cells for various reasons. The ones I am going to talk about today are cloning and reproducing cells to heal people. The stem cells are taken from mostly aborted babies. The aborted babies cannot speak so the do not need to give permission. they are...

This paper is from a catholic feminist's perceptive that the church, as an institution, is structured as a pyramid modeled on the patriarchal family with the custom of father-right. The patriarchal decision-maker has the power to shape, form and control the "poor of the world" (McCor...

Thine Eyes Behold a Power So Great Religion above all things has been a factor, and sometimes the most important factor, in everyone's daily life. Religion is everywhere, with no avoidance possible (unless of course you are a hermit in the Himalaya). And for some religion has even destroyed ...

The Enlightenment: A Beginning and an End As the 18th Century began, fresh currents of thought were wearing down institutionalized traditions. The aristocracy, the middle class, as well as the philosophes were influenced by rationalism, reason, perfectibility and progress, and secular, humanis...

DON BOSCO There are a lot of things, if you want become fully human and live The Virtues, that you must do. Few people can do it, but Don Bosco was an exception. He flaunted a fully human life. As a priest and follower of God he showed people how to walk the path to God. During Don Bosco's li...

Abortion: an operation or other invention to end a pregnancy by removing an embryo or fetus from the womb; as stated by the Encarta World English Dictionary. Abortion is a controversial topic in today's society and I believe that each individual (depending on the circumstance) has the right to...

Erasmus of Rotterdam, the author of Praise of Folly and Thomas More, the author of Utopia, were two of the sixteenth century's greatest Renaissance writers. Erasmus and More were both close friends and also great believers in their religion. It was in the early part of the sixteenth centu...

If we were meant to be perfect, then why doesn't god make us so? Paul says that we should rejoice in our weakness because it gives us reason to want to get closer to God. One might argue that we now have the means to "improve" on God's work, to help those in need lead a more ...

What's So Amazing About Grace? Before reading this book I had never heard of Phillip Yancy or his book, "What 's So Amazing About Grace?". However, through my reading of this book I became almost infatuated with his style of writing. The stories in this book are easy to under...

The book, "Religion of Technology", written by David F. Noble, presents concepts of religion and technology, along with the correlation between the two concepts, in terms of their similarity for reaching the millennial goal. The theory behind the millenarian approach is based on the idea t...

3. Discuss why Tocqueville esteems "the equality of conditions" in American society. How does Tocqueville's understanding of race differ from Beaumont's? He could see there the full extent of the democratic phenomenon, and discerned its "generative fact": the equality of conditions. The equ...

Of all the things learned and decided in a person's life, the subject of religion is always considered the most important. This report very well, and probably will, upset some of the "Bible belt" Christians, who cannot seem to allow any thought or idea but there own, but it needs to b...

The Eternal Clock of Life "... Tick-tock, seven o' clock, time to get up, time to get up, seven o' clock" (Bradbury 1057)! The first form of telling the time used the sun to function-these were used before 1000 BC (Bailey 2). For over three thousand years we have relied on th...

Renaissance humanism focuses on the features of classical civilization, including the intellectual and social movements associated with ancient Greece and Rome. People began to explore the power of the human mind. Generally, humanism stresses the individual\'s creative, reasoning, and artistic powe...

Conflict theorists would argue that organized religion, 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 ...

The Catholic Encyclopedia defines morality as "human conduct in so far as it is freely subordinated to the ideal of what is right and fitting." On the other hand, one definition that Encarta Encyclopedia gives for morality is "good or right, when judged by the standards of the averag...

Should abortion be considered murder? In the United States, women choose to end about 25% of their pregnancies through abortion. This number has been gradually declining since 1979. This is similar to the Canadian figure of 21%, but is much lower than that of the former Soviet Union 60% and...

Book Response "As a Man Thinketh" "As a man thinketh in his heart so is he." We can't control the things, which enter into our mind, but we can control what we do with them. We are the masters of our own destinies. We can choose the type of person we want to be, by us...

visit www.simpsonau.com!!! Theme in "Defender of the Faith" can be interpreted in many varying ways, some of which are life-long lessons and others to the relation between faith and the individual. Throughout much of the story, Nathan Marx is lost between his role as a sergeant, Jew and hu...

During the course of John Donne's life he went through two life stages: the period where he was a wild, fun-loving man; and the second, where he was a well-known, respected man of the church, making him quite the opposite of his former years. Throughout his life he continued to write poetry. Throug...