Essays on Faith

Arab life prior to the creation of Islam housed many flaws. Some of these flaws including, disbelief in Allah, the committing of various sins, and shirk. Shirk, being a sin that cannot be forgiven by Allah, was extremely common prior to the introduction of Islam….

Existence of God:It is cross discussion of the theory of religion and culture. Numerous scholars gave contentions for and against the presence of God. These contentions are ordered in following structures: Metaphysical Logical Empirical Subjective The discourse of the presence of God in west began…

Religion can be defined as a cultural system of designated demeanors and practices, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, which relates humanity to supernatural, transcendental, or spiritual elements. My definition of religion is the notion of tranquility that is found personally in oneself…

Like the popular “Where’s Waldo” books of the past decade, the earliest followers of Jesus awoke Easter morning asking, “where’s Jesus?” He wasn’t where he was supposed to be, certainly not in the tomb where they expected to find him. The burial cloths were there…

One of the unofficial traditions of the West Genesee School system is the Senior Prank. It is an unofficial tradition, because it is not sanctioned by the administration. It is, however, a tradition among the students to devise some sort of elaborate prank on the…

Once heard the difference between a historian and a Christian is that the historian looks for Jesus of Nazareth the man who lived and died nearly two millennia ago, and Christian looks for the Christ who continues to live among us. This is why the…

After experiencing a new environment in the religion aspect, I found that nondenominational is not that much different from catholic. Crossroads Church in Mason is a nondenominational church. This type of church is for “anyone who wants to seek God from those exploring whether or…

Oscar Wilde’s works have been met with both good and bad reputation. The Contemporary Review informs that Wilde’s poem The Ballad of Reading Gaol was once considered, “undervalued and unfairly condemned by generations of critics, some of whom claim that Wilde was a plagiarist” (190)….

Revisiting Catholicism After being baptized Catholic, I never really got that into the religion. I have identified as non-religious for a while and really had no desire to join any faith before this assignment. For my assignment, I went to an Easter Vigil mass while…

In the film “Smoke”, directed by Wayne Wang we follow the lives of three characters in Brooklyn mostly by seeing how they become connected and through the stories they tell. We learn of an author named Paul Benjamin who routinely buys cigars from a local…