...earth, the human race, marriage, salvation, faith, government and the covenant. I believe all of this is true and practice the Christian faith. I was raised in this faith and all of my family before me was raised in the same faith. My view on same sex marriage is different from the worldview of it today. I was taught that people who like the same sex is wrong and they were going to hell. I was taught the reason god destroyed Earth the first time was due to moral values being ignored and men laying with men. God created marriage one man and one woman to go out and reproduce. I have not yet to guess what would have happened to the human race if God wanted to have same sex marriage there would be no human race left. I am very sure that God is very upset with our country which is supposed to be one under and passing laws to marry the same sex is wrong. I support the one man one woman marriage completely as does my family. Since I was a small child I have been taught about Gods love, grace, rules, and wrath. God taught us how to conduct our weeks, work six days a week and take the seventh day for rest. God also made twenty four hours in each day to complete our tasks. The Seventh Day Adventist church has church on Saturday which they state is the seventh day our culture has many churches that worship very differently. Many ways of Religion has caused many problems throughout our time. Many civilizations and other people in our own society believe in evolution that we are not created...
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...What is the family? To study the evolution of the family in the last century, we must first define what a family is and what forms it can take. The family is a fundamental building block of life in society in the sense that it allows a large part of social reproduction. It is often the first group in which individuals are socialized and learn to live in society: sociolisation primaire.On can define the family in different ways and different points of view . A family , for example, a community of people united by kinship . It has a legal personality, a name, a home and a common heritage and created among its members a duty of moral and material solidarity , intended to protect and promote their social, physical and emotional . The family can take many forms. There may be nuclear families , which are a form of family structure corresponding to a household comprising two or unmarried children and their parents, in contrast to the extended family may have several generations The parent families, which are families consisting of one parent living with her children and stepfamilies , household combining two families whose parents are either divorced or separated , and being remarried or is not living in the same household . II) Some definitions: Marriage : today , marriage can take two main forms : the civil marriage (which was doing the town hall) , and religious marriage (which is the church) often requires a prior civil marriage. The wedding is a ceremony aimed at...
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...for your answer. After completing the matrix, write a 300- to 500-word summary of the significant similarities and differences among the different religious groups. |SCHOOL ISSUES | |Prayer in School |Creationism v. Evolution |Studying Women’s Rights in the Middle East |Saying the Pledge of Allegiance |Starting a Gay and Lesbian Support Group |Inter-Racial Dating | |COMMUNITY RELIGIOUS GROUPS |Pro/Con |Justify your answer |Pro/Con |Justify your answer |Pro/Con |Justify your answer |Pro/Con |Justify your answer |Pro/Con |Justify your answer |Pro/Con |Justify your answer | |Atheist |Con |Atheists are opposed to prayer in school. They find it to be of an offense. They do not believe in God, therefore they do not believe in praying to God. |Pro Evolution |Atheist doesn’t believe in the power of creation which is aligned to Christianity. They are for evolution, which are scientific verses religious based. |Pro |Atheists believe in the equality of male and woman rights. They support equality and would support woman’s right in the middle east. | Con |When it comes to the pledge of Allegiance, “one nation under God” is...
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...you have just explained is not evolution but adaptation. And we as Muslims have got no objection to accept this. And what you also outlined is the concept of Natural selection and survival of the fittest. Again we as Muslims have got no objection to accept this. According to your explanation, you say that Darwin never states that there is a change of kind in evolutionary biology. If I agree with this, then this means the atheists and evolutionary biologists have lied for more than 200 years when they say we have been evolved from apes . We have been deceived by the likes of Richard Dawkins and other scientists who believed in this. There are 2 categories of evolutionary biology. Micro-evolution and macro-evolution. Micro-evolution is evolutionary change WITHIN a species or small group of organisms, especially over a short period. However, macro-evolution is evolution on a scale of SEPERATED gene pools and focuses on change that occurs at or above the level of species. What you spoke about viruses and bacteria evolving is under the micro-evolution and therefore we as Muslims have no problem to accept micro-evolution. The problem comes in macro-evolution where it says one species changes to another kind. There is not a single observational evidence to support this. The most common evidence given by atheists for this is Darwin's finches where the size of beaks changes over time to adapt to a different environment. Again, this is not macro-evolution because they still remain to be...
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...Traditionally, a marriage consists of a man and woman joining their lives together through a ceremony that is typically religious. The evolution of people and relationships has majorly impacted the ideal image of how a marriage is entered upon. For example, it was taboo to most people during and before the Civil Rights era in the United States for individuals of different ethnic backgrounds to date one another; let alone, get married and start a family. It almost seems that most people who were against interracial relationships during this time believed that God’s intent of marriage only should be of two people who share the same faith and heritage. Well, just like all of Earth’s entities we as humans evolve! More specifically, Americans have evolved in how we view right and wrong in today’s society. Currently, there are various levels of how family structures exist. “With marriage exerting less influence over how adults organize their lives and bear their children, cohabitation is filling some of the vacuum” (Leo, 2009, p. 1). “Today about a half of all non-marital births are to a cohabiting couple; 15 years ago, only about a third were” (Leo, 2009, p. 1). “Cohabiters are ambivalent about marriage – just under half (44%) say they to want marry; a nearly equal portion (41%) say they aren’t sure” (Leo, 2009, p. 1). Being that the idea of traditional marriage is losing its popularity, what can be blamed for its declining status? Some will argue and say that media has a...
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...A Case Against Oklahoma’s Ban on First Cousin Marriage While public support for same sex marriage has undoubtedly increased within the last decade, the topic of consanguineous marriages is seldom discussed in popular media or the court house. In January of 2014 “District Judge Terence Kern overturned Oklahoma’s discriminatory state ban on marriage for same-sex couples” (“Oklahoma”). Nevertheless, according to section 43-2 of Oklahoma Statutes “marriages between…first cousins are…expressly prohibited.” By continuing to uphold this ban, the legislative assembly of Oklahoma wrongfully agrees with the common notions that marrying one’s close cousin results in a significantly higher chance of genetic mutations and disorders among offspring, disrupts social order, and is morally wrong. A careful analysis of the assembly’s implied arguments disproves their validity. The increase in health risks posed to the offspring was perhaps the most influential factor considered by the legislative assembly of Oklahoma when outlawing consanguineous marriages. Although everyone is aware of the additional danger, many—including governing bodies—often disregard the actual numbers and exaggerate the findings. The offspring of first cousin marriages have only “a 1.7-2.8% increased risk for congenital defects above the [general] population” (Bennett et al. 115). The rise is not only miniscule, it is also preventable due to advanced methods of genetic testing and introduction of “genetic counseling” (Gelman)...
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...universal individuality. It is this extra dimension of those characters that is fascinating to us and renders them immortal characters. We see that the immortality of a character is his innate universality. Jane Austen’s genius captured the flavour of the French Revolution wafting across the shores of England which was anxious to restructure its society so as to avoid a bloody revolution. Mental growth that assimilates the spirit of the times can compel the body to rise to the occasion, thus avoiding the inherent violence of any revolution. England did escape the guillotine by exercising its social wisdom which was willing to unite the higher and lower strata of the society. Pride and Prejudice can be seen as a story of several marriages where the abominable pride of Darcy becomes the uncontrollable passion of his heart. Romance is the adventure of the heart for the unattainable. This approach views the story as the aristocracy descending to the commoner in its passion to preserve the society by preserving itself. It is this social power of passionate self-preservation that passes through Darcy to Elizabeth as an irresistible romantic attraction. Elizabeth is the best daughter of the gentrified Mr. Bennet and the mother of intense physical energy who is neither educated nor enlightened. The vast reservoir of physical energy of the mother is there in the daughter as the...
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...different religions when he was nine years old. Around the age of fifteen, he discovered Darwinism and started believing in the theory of evolution. Dawkins feels that Darwinism is a better explanation of life on earth than the Biblical explanation that God created the universe, man, and everything in it. Dawkins has an atheist worldview and expresses his worldview in numerous books, journals, and lectures. In this essay, I will compare and contrast Dawkins’ values and beliefs with my own concerning family, career, social issues and the nature of God. Dawkins’ family consisted of his father, mother and sister. His parents believed in God and attended church. They were interested in natural science and taught him everything using terms of science. As Dawkins studied Darwinism, he turned away from Christianity and became a nonbeliever. As a child, my family life was similar to Dawkins’ family life. I was brought up in a Christian household. My parents taught me many things, and I have one sister. The main difference between me and Dawkins when it comes to family is that I did not turn away from my family values and Christian beliefs as I became older. I still have a Christian worldview, today. I have a personal relationship with God. While completing my research, I learned that Dawkins has been married three times. He ended his first two marriages in divorce. This is not shocking to me since he does not agree with God’s word. The Bible teaches us “a husband is not to divorce his...
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...Cultural and Social Life of Bishnupriya Culture is a broad concept, its limit is wide, literal meaning speaks about intellectual activities of minds when focused or reflected on a screen like society, the display/demonstration when produce a particular contribution to the aid of the then civilization, the whole exposition contribute to what we call culture. Culture of mind leads to research, results, culture of civilization shows the development of a society through evolution. The Sanskrit meaning of culture is to do something good to the universe with acute touch with passage of time supporting evolution. In context of the present topic we need to relate to that area of Bishnupriyas. Culture which drove enhanced the clan to attain a special honour, name and fame before the culture of eyes of the world. Culture has been described as custom, achievements etc. of a particular civilization. In Bishnupriyas, the word culture is known as Ruhibritti. Ruhibritti is a combination of two Sanskrit words derived from the roots Ruh – (to grow , to increase), bit – (to exist, to live on). Thus the word Ruhibritti encompasses all knowledge, beliefs, customs and other capabilities that we acquire as our social heritage. The Bishnupriya community is an ancestor worshippers and they believed Ibudhou (great, great, great grandfather). Culture encompasses all capabilities and habits acquired by a man as member of the social heritage and depends entirely on the society and not on the individuals...
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...Book Critique on The Advancement By Brandon Killings APOL 500 Christians live in a world that seems to have changed overnight. The meaning of marriage is being redefined by allowing same sex marriages and the meaning of the absolute truth has just disappeared. So Bush is trying to figure out where did this new approach of life originate and why did things change so sudden from one generation to the next. The text states that this drastic change didn’t just happen overnight, but it started during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Bush tends to answer this question in his book, entitled, “The Advancement.” L. Russ Bush, is a dean and a professor at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. The Advancement is an apologetic approach to the philosophy of naturalism. Bush used the term “advancement,” to explain the modern worldview based on a naturalistic philosophy. Bush felt that the term, “modern” is outdated and old fashioned because this term tends to provoke a mindset of staleness, rather than revolving and advancing. Bush organizes his book into eight chapters. In the book, Bush explains the ideas of postmodern evolutionary thought and offers a response from a Christian perspective. Bush’s main goal for writing this book was to expose the discrepancies of the modern naturalist philosophy, compared to the truths of Christianity. The first chapter, which is entitled “The Worldview of the Advancement,” which basically talks about the worldview that is most dominant...
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...Katz used outside sources to prove that in previous relationship activities our cultural has been very bias. This is the tradition that men are supposed to pay and women are supposed to sit still, and look pretty. Men and women are very unequal when it comes to relationships because of cultural given roles. Katz notes these and then implies that hooking up is making the playing field more even. The article Old-fashioned Dating gives way to Hooking Up by Matthew Katz is about hooking up and it connects to class because Katz talks about relationship standards, evolutions of marriage and gender...
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...TOPIC SUBJECT HEADINGS For use in Online Catalog (OPAC) SUBJECT HEADINGS For Sample Database Searches Abortion Abortion; Pro-Choice Movement; Pro-Life Movement Abortion Acid rain SEE ALSO Pollution Acid Rain Acid Rain Adoption (interracial, unmarried persons, gays) Adoption; Gay parents; Interracial adoption Adoption AIDS AIDS (Disease); AIDS (Disease) in children AIDS (Disease); Pediatric AIDS (Disease) Alzheimer's disease Alzheimer's disease Alzheimer's disease Animal rights Animal experimentation; Animal rights Animal experimentation; Animal rights Anorexia and Bulimia SEE Eating disorders Athletes and drugs Doping in Sports Drugs and Athletes Banking Bailout (2008) Bailout Battered women SEE ALSO Wife Abuse Abused women Conjugal abuse Birth control Birth control; Contraception Birth control; Contraception Black Reparations Movement Reparations; Slavery--Law and legislation Reparations Body language Body language; Gesture; Nonverbal communication Nonverbal communication Bullying Bullying Bullying; Cyberbullying Business ethics Business ethics; Corporations - Corrupt practices Business ethics; Business enterprises, Corrupt practices Capital punishment (Death Penalty) Capital punishment; Death row Capital punishment Cancer Cancer--Prevention SEE ALSO types of cancer, such asBreast--Cancer Neoplasms--Prevention and Control;Cancer Treatment Censorship SEE ALSO Freedom of the Press Censorship; Prohibited...
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...ignored. I was born and raised in country where we follow very strict and conservative norms and values. Brought up in such a country it interests me to see the freedom of sexual orientation being practiced because I have always seen and taught there is only one sexual orientation which is being attracted to other gender. There is certainly no chance or explanation that justices anyone sexual orientation and sexual fascination for same gender. Somewhat being the strictness of our religion and strict teachings we follow from our Holy Book. It is based on a vulgar action that even goes against evolution providing religious ground to state it wrong. • Gay marriage is anti-evolution and completely against nature. • All major religions of the world are opposed to it. • Gay sex is a form of idolatry where people worship each other. The mankind should not be endorsing these actions. • Gay marriage exposes us to even more risqué and improper behavior which does nothing for mankind. • As a future society, we will look back on the witch hunt that was used against religious institutions to support this cause and be filled with shame. It is astonishing yet new to me to see how across the globe people have completely different beliefs and view about the same topic. It’s unconditionally...
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...Modern day republicans today are viewed as the conservative and stringent side of the political spectrum. Among its many viewpoints, this party lays its support towards the ideas of liberal capitalism; they oppose increased taxes for anyone, including the wealthy, and a strong military force. Puritans were the very definition of conservatives, and prudence. For the Puritans, The Bible was the ultimate authority, these beliefs, were applied to every area and scope of culture. Puritans were the literal trailblazers that lead to the evolution that is the Republican Party of today. The republican definitions of marriage, life in stages of conception, and the religious factors intertwined within law making, are directly derived from the Puritan...
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...English Essay- Evolution of Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare’s well-known play, Romeo and Juliet addresses the ill-fated love of two young children from feuding households set in Verona. Even though they are both children and Juliet is younger than Romeo, they both mature at different rates and ways. In addition, they are very different characters. Romeo is withdrawn, whereas Juliet is bold and brave. The differences go on and are made more obvious as the play progresses. This essay will highlight these differences and how they evolve as characters through the course of this play. Both the characters strike us as very different when we meet them for the first time. Romeo is recovering from his unrequited love. He is shown to be pining with love for a woman called Rosaline. He seems very immature in the beginning as he loses track of time and he stays in a dark room throughout the day due to his love-sickness. The play's emphasis on characters' eyes and the act of looking accords with Romeo's role as a blind lover who doesn't believe that there could be another lady more fair than his Rosaline. Romeo denies that he could be deluded by love, the "religion" of his eye. This zeal, combined with his rejection of Benvolio's advice to find another love to replace Rosaline, highlights Romeo's immaturity as a lover. We immediately feel as though his feelings are not real love, it is more of a infatuation. Romeo is in love with the concept of being in love. Juliet on the other hand...
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