Wendell Pfeffer
Ashley Vaught
Blog Comment #1
All
my life I have been taught to respect all forms of religion and their teachings
even if they seem strange to me. These different epics that we are reading in
class are a little bit out of the ordinary, but they are still fun to read and
think about. Still though there are many things that I dislike about the
concept of these readings. The first of which is of how women are generally
respected and thought of as. For example, the main role of the women in these
epics is to provide for their husbands and succeed in providing male children.
If for some reason they are unable to do so then they are thrown aside and
considered as failures. The idea of women degradation comes mostly from the
book of Genesis. Another concept that I felt strongly about was concerning the
laws that govern whether or not you are faithful to god. According to the bible
the people that live on this planet are free. I do not necessarily think we are
free unto god. Freedom is a lack of restraint and in order to remain faithful
to god one must force themselves to do many things that they wouldn’t
necessarily do in order to remain faithful and refrain from any type of
punishment. In Deuteronomy god told the Israelites to sack villages on the way
to the promised land and once they would reach the promise land the Israelites
would have to exterminate anyone that they saw living their. God is promoting
violence and thus I don’t necessarily see him as the hero in any of the stories.
In other words he goes against his own commandment of “thou shalt not kill” (Exodus
20:13). This idea of violence and treating women with discontent has also transgressed
onto modern societies especially Muslim ones. Groups and people all over the
world are killing other people in the name of god and most of the time they get
away with it. Also if you look at the bible in a different perspective it also can
be used as a propaganda tool and a method for fear. God himself is the enforcer
and if you choose to disobey god then you will suffer the consequences by
execution or another form of harsh punishment.
Let me know what you guys think J - Wendell Pfeffer
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