Yet holding onto the feelings of superiority I continued to push for what I wanted, causing my parents much pain I am sure. It all came to the breaking point in High School when I saw how the selfishness was leading to drinking and staying out late with bad friends, and was eventually going to lead to really bad things like smoking or drugs. I didn't feel loved by anyone anymore and was more rebellious and depressed than ever. My parents were concerned with me and took an even harder stance against my having free time, threatening to send me away to a military school. My father even laid out all these brochures in front of me and told me to choose one to attend if I did not became nicer to my family. I began to feel really depressed after that and jumped at the chance to go away to a Young Life Summer Camp. I went on the camp and could see there were other kids with troubled lives like mine. I however was considered to be one of the worst, I could tell how the leaders isolated me and had me spent time with one of the more senior counselors. The counselor spent a lot of time with me, nearly all the time there, talking about how Christ changes people, makes them see the world differently and turns hate into love. He also talked about how Christ died for my sins and I didn't have to walk around hating myself or people anymore. This...
After a week of talking about how much I hated people and myself especially, the counselor said we should pray and ask Jesus into my life. We prayed alone in the wilderness and I felt this incredible peace and love all around me. I'd never felt that before. Finally, I thought, someone accepts me for who I am! We prayed more and I felt the anger lift and realized I didn't have to fight anymore. You could feel the presence of love and understanding, it was amazing. I could not get enough of that.
Auschwitz gave to Promo Levi when he dared to ask the "Why?" question. To be sure, the guard was simply attempting to be cynical and sarcastic rather than reflective or philosophical, but LaCapra is also critical of Claude Lanzmann for failing to ask this question enough in Shoah. All of the Germans who Lanzmann interviewed were either perpetrators of complicit bystanders, and they spent a great deal of time
high degree of misinformation I had received from traditional teachings about the church and the beginning of Christianity. Moreover, I was struck by the notion that most other people in the Western world receive this same degree of intentional misinformation, so much so that I have even heard people defend the idea that knowledge of the historical church is irrelevant to modern Christianity. Reading through the class material, I
Christian Conversion Many conversions always happen in the world of religion and theology. The existence of different religious teachings and mainframes necessitates that people make choices of one of the many of these groups. Christianity is one of the religious movements with teachings directed at meeting the specific standards of living as written in the Bible. The followers and teachers of this gospel seek to convince and sustain individuals as
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