Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Come on...
Really though...I don't have another blog or outlet and these witch trials are really bothering me...But uh, I don't advise anyone to read this poorly written expression of my thoughts. They needed to be written down immediately.
Can you imagine not being able to read? or God forbid...TYPE!? What would I do without stumbleupon? I seriously just found 50+ articles for my thesis that I wouldn't have known about if I wasn't both literate and technologically savvy. (Oh, people are going to compare literacy to computer knowndege in a short, short time!)
Anyway, it wasn't even 400 years ago that 90% of us college females would be ridiculed and denied opportunity for even taking this HST 322 class. How quickly we forget our history...Perhaps the women of the seventies made (us) traditional women forget (or deny) the true extraordinary bounds we have triumphed in the past century because their views were too extreme. Nonetheless, just to be literate is an extraordinary gift I take for granted daily, simply because, "I've suffered through nearly sixteen years of schooling."
Um, I'm twenty-one. Single. Into Philosophy and History. My parents are modest. I have three older bothers, who are currently unmarried, bu all have serious girlfriends that I can't wait to call sisters. Oh, did I mention? We all work for my dad, too. I like to challenge people; play devil's advocate. I don't think my beliefs in deities and afterlife can be classified as normal. I really want to be a professional scholar. I damn my hometown all the time and dream of far off places that I want to live...And hey, I lived in England for a few months. I like gin and ale, gettofmyback! Oh, and I'm a vegetarian that thinks she wouldn't survive without supplements.
I certainly, without a doubt in my mind, would have been tried as a witch if I was living in the sixteenth century...
Not a very comforting thought, really. I guess we could acknowledge how far society has come and whatnot. But that really isn't the case, is it? Because if I still feel the way I do fifteen or twenty years from now I'll be an eclectic old lady with 100's of cats (hopefully sooner, rather than later ;-)) that neighbors avoid. Sure, I won't be a witch; but I'll still be a drain on society because I'm not producing babies or married.
hmm.
Can you imagine not being able to read? or God forbid...TYPE!? What would I do without stumbleupon? I seriously just found 50+ articles for my thesis that I wouldn't have known about if I wasn't both literate and technologically savvy. (Oh, people are going to compare literacy to computer knowndege in a short, short time!)
Anyway, it wasn't even 400 years ago that 90% of us college females would be ridiculed and denied opportunity for even taking this HST 322 class. How quickly we forget our history...Perhaps the women of the seventies made (us) traditional women forget (or deny) the true extraordinary bounds we have triumphed in the past century because their views were too extreme. Nonetheless, just to be literate is an extraordinary gift I take for granted daily, simply because, "I've suffered through nearly sixteen years of schooling."
Um, I'm twenty-one. Single. Into Philosophy and History. My parents are modest. I have three older bothers, who are currently unmarried, bu all have serious girlfriends that I can't wait to call sisters. Oh, did I mention? We all work for my dad, too. I like to challenge people; play devil's advocate. I don't think my beliefs in deities and afterlife can be classified as normal. I really want to be a professional scholar. I damn my hometown all the time and dream of far off places that I want to live...And hey, I lived in England for a few months. I like gin and ale, gettofmyback! Oh, and I'm a vegetarian that thinks she wouldn't survive without supplements.
I certainly, without a doubt in my mind, would have been tried as a witch if I was living in the sixteenth century...
Not a very comforting thought, really. I guess we could acknowledge how far society has come and whatnot. But that really isn't the case, is it? Because if I still feel the way I do fifteen or twenty years from now I'll be an eclectic old lady with 100's of cats (hopefully sooner, rather than later ;-)) that neighbors avoid. Sure, I won't be a witch; but I'll still be a drain on society because I'm not producing babies or married.
hmm.
Sunday, March 1, 2009
Zwingli
Often compared to Luther, Zwingli was among the many reformers of the early sixteenth century. He was a charismatic preacher more concerned with a social reformation than the salvation of individual souls; resulting in many arguments with Luther. Zwingli was well educated, like Luther. Unfortnately, he was said to be a mere imitation of Luther, however Zwingly was preaching for a deviation from harsh and unjust Catholic law a year before Luther even wrote the 95 Theses.
Zwingily maintained that everything should be up to the individual and that if the Bible did not explicitly spell something out then it should not be a rule. He believed that the Eucharist was merely symbolic, in no way did it transform into the body and blood of Christ. He still felth the Eucharist was an important aspect of church services, and that it was important to have a symbol of Christ's salvation. If the Old or New Testament did not say something explicitly and literally, then no Christian should believe or practice it.
His ideas gained recognition in 1518 during Lent (which conveniently began this week). He and his followers promoted eating meat during a time associated with fasting and self denial in the Church. He did not believe that devout Catholics should be forced to fast because the scripture never explicitly spelled out that rule. He said that individuals should not be forced to deny themselves, but if they wanted to follow Christ then fasting then they were encouraged. Interestingly, he fasted and remained celibate; but mainained that everyone should be allowed to govern themselves through and through.
Because Zwingli felt that individual choices were imperative to knowing God, he believed in adult batism. It was the only legitimate way to be batisbed because it was a choice. From this spawned the anabaptist church.
All of Zwingli's writings are very straight forward. He wants to be clear and conscise because that is how he thinks religion should be.
Zwingily maintained that everything should be up to the individual and that if the Bible did not explicitly spell something out then it should not be a rule. He believed that the Eucharist was merely symbolic, in no way did it transform into the body and blood of Christ. He still felth the Eucharist was an important aspect of church services, and that it was important to have a symbol of Christ's salvation. If the Old or New Testament did not say something explicitly and literally, then no Christian should believe or practice it.
His ideas gained recognition in 1518 during Lent (which conveniently began this week). He and his followers promoted eating meat during a time associated with fasting and self denial in the Church. He did not believe that devout Catholics should be forced to fast because the scripture never explicitly spelled out that rule. He said that individuals should not be forced to deny themselves, but if they wanted to follow Christ then fasting then they were encouraged. Interestingly, he fasted and remained celibate; but mainained that everyone should be allowed to govern themselves through and through.
Because Zwingli felt that individual choices were imperative to knowing God, he believed in adult batism. It was the only legitimate way to be batisbed because it was a choice. From this spawned the anabaptist church.
All of Zwingli's writings are very straight forward. He wants to be clear and conscise because that is how he thinks religion should be.
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