James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time

In Chinua Achebe novel, Things Fall Apart Nwoye a young man under Okonkwo’s responsibility is affected positively by the introduction of western ideas into the Ibo culture. This being said Nwoye has found a passion for being apart of a religion not known by any local in Igbo called Christianity, to some it was a blessing and to others a disgrace. To Okonkwo he feels that anybody who converts to Christianity is a disgrace to their village. And how surprising is it that his own son converts to a Christian. And in his conversion he tries to escape his strict culture and find out who he is as a person.

There was a book when religion influenced the characters, when their actions were determined, and the their words shaped. There was a time when religion caused separation, and the churches were divided, the song was arrogant, and it was all wrong. One man dreamed a dream that religion should motivate us to do good, that God’s love would never die. His hope was high, and his life worth living. This man was Atticus, an island in a sea of misrepresentation of religion.

Miriam is not helping black people get a ride home, but tired people get home safely after work. Color is important during this movement and highly significant because it addresses the racism issue seen in America even today. The goal of both films is to help a race that is being severely oppressed get their god given right of coexisting in peace. Each film introduced a complex topic that I had to understand and tie into my morality complex. Many individuals may see Childers’ as a man guilty of being white, try to fix it through a “white savior complex”.

He explains that change can seem overwhelming and even threatening at times, which is why he wants Christians to have deep roots and dive in deeper into the grace of the gospel. Piper’s thesis is to show that the bloodlines of race do not matter when compared to the deep bloodline of Christ (227). He points out a pivotal problem that humans are alienated from God, and in doing so, are alienated from each other (227). A key way of looking at this is remembering that when people fail to love God, they fail to love others which causes disharmony, pride, and

Nwoye and Okonkwo had a rocky relationship from the beginning but it only solidified once Ikemefuna was killed. Christianity being introduced to Umuofia showed Nwoye that he had a purpose in life and he didn’t have to be just like his father. Nwoye and Okonkwo had a bad relationship because they could never accept the fact that they had more differences than similarities,this caused them to separate from each other permanently. Stephen Covey said “Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.” If Nwoye and Okonkwo would have been able to set their differences aside and tried to accept each other then maybe Nwoye wouldn’t have converted to

Moreover, he uses pathos because the puritans basically based their society on faith, they reached their emotional level because the puritans god was a vengeful god and they feared him. He tries to convince puritans to be a good example, and desires other towns to look upon theirs as an idolatry Puritan community. He uses persuasive diction and figures of speech to reinforce his idea of a “city upon a hill”, which is having absolute unity and conformity in able for the colony to prosper. Finally, in Patrick Henry speech, “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death!”, wants for people to go to the war, so they won’t be seen as somebody weak, he goes for that we go to war not for the love of bloodshed but to prove them their strength than they think. In other words, he wanted the people to feel good about their troops and what they need in life.

Therefore, causing great concern that the prince would become a threat to his people by not following the moral beliefs of a Christian and following Machiavelli’s unethical theory. Hundreds of years after the banning, not much had changed. Men still believed and acted as they pleased. Rulers followed the ways that Machiavelli mentioned in The Prince, making the banning hypocritical to the way that good Christian rulers would have attained

Our assumptions are controlled by an unconscious bias and can be used to justify actions and make false conclusions. Daily actions influence our life without our knowledge. The narrator, of “Bartleby and the Scrivener”, and Goodman Brown were raised in a world that would manipulate their actions to change an outcome without them realizing. Goodman Brown believed he was raised into “a race of honest men and good Christians” shaping him to be a strong independent Christian man, even though he says

1) Explain Loyola’s statement and intention as a representative of the Catholic Church: “We must put aside all judgment of our own: what seems to me white, I will believe black if the hierarchical Church so defines” A). St. Loyola’s focused on deepening and strengthening their relationship with the Catholic Church. Although he followed the church’s beliefs, it was through a blind faith. He believed in not trusting your own judgment, but to have an unquestioning faith in the church. He utilized the five senses to display how individuals would suffer in hell if they do not follow the Catholic’s Church teachings.

Baldwin's essay “Notes of a Native Song” demonstrates the issues of race in the 1950s by relating the moral disregard of the country to his own experiences throughout his life. Baldwin emphasizes the strained relationship between himself, his father, and other characters by using his experience as a reference to further understand the rift in ideology. He asserts this topic with his analysis of not only the relationships between races, but how concepts and behaviors reflect on man. “Notes of a Native Son” opens with the funeral of James Baldwin’s

Religion influence the funding and development of New England Colonies because it was one of the main reasons why the people wanted to break away. The Church of England believed that everyone should praise God, but only on their terms. The people of the church believed that only certain people could interpret the word of God and this made a group of people angry. This group of people wanted to ‘purify’ the church, which is where they got the name the Puritans. Puritans believed all catholic based beliefs should be taken out of the church and that it was not required to worship God.

Thomas Pain’s catalytic words of the modern theology Thomas Pain argues for a more individualistic form of monotheism while the puritans believe that only their god should be prayed to. The puritan religion was unique from the rest of the world because they held the Sabbath in true Old Testament fashion. Thomas in his last offering to his fellow citizens of all nations does not hold back his religious believes in this very unpopular (at the time) literature. He states “In the general wreck of superstition, “false systems of government and false theology, we lose sight of morality, of humanity and of the theology that is true.” (653) At first this was very hard for people to accept until long after Thomas had passed, over time people had

Scriptural rambling can bring confusion to younger Christians because they are not equipped yet to follow. However, when it comes to the older Christians, can feed their pride and lead to sin. Collins stated,”the purpose of the sermon is to edify the congregation in their faith, not to convince them that you swallowed a chain reference Bible or a seminary Rolodex.” Therefore, we should only use and teach messages that the congregations can