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superstitious

In the novel The Seventh Son, the devil is described to a young man named Alvin.  The describer states that the devil looks like "the horns of a bull, claws of a bear, hooves of a goat, and has the roar of a ravening lion."  The young man replies to this saying "An you call us superstitious."  From this conversation between two characters, i wonder if ones self can believe in a religion and at the same time, not believe it is indeed superstitious... 

Within the novel itself, a family called the Millers, see themselves as a superstitious family, The local Reverend "thrower", also see's it this way.  As a reader, in some sense i see the Reverend himself as a superstitous person.  He tries his best to force a religion onto a young man, who is uncapable of understanding the figure "god".  Is this how he should spread such a godly religion? i think not.  Along with that note, he wishes to kill the young man because the thinks he is the devil.  Being a man of god, could he take gods power into his "own" hands to kill one of "gods creations"?

In some sense i belive that the image of god we ourselfs have created is somewhat superstitious, no human on earth has ever seen this "God" but we still believe he is there.  Other cultures have many gods..doesnt it seem unnessesary to have multiple gods that withhold the same powers? could it not be possible that one "god" created us all, and not the the power of multiple "gods"?  For that matter, wouldnt having "A" god be superstitious enough? i believe that this "god" might just be a figure of the human imagination, and at the same time just a figure of history, not actually a person.

How Will the World End?

I know this seems like a very strange question, but you can't deny the fact that the world or humanity will one day be destroyed. How will the World end? How long will it be till the World ends? Ask yourself that. This question came into my head when I was surfing the web. I found out that there is about 20 ways that humanity or the planet can be destroyed and I wanted the class to give its opinion on the subject. Some of the ideas might seem utterly absurd, but when you think about it for a bit and read the text it’s not completely impossible.

Plus, this is something not most people take time to think about. I found this topic interesting and I hope you do too. For information about this subject, check out the link below.

http://endofourworld.ytmnd.com/

The link is a quick slide show of the discussion. Lastly, the slide show does have music, so it won’t be boring, I promise.