He brings up the question of evil's existence, to quote "The Tyger," from Songs of Experience: "Did he who make the lamb make thee"". ... Powell, "The author notes that the perfect, beautiful, symmetrical, work of art (the tyger) is such a destructive animal: here Blake is identifying the idea that there, in fact, is evil in such a beautiful world but he cannot understand why". ... The poem raises an innovative question that if God is responsible for creating both the good things in life (the lamb) and the evil things (the tyger), how can God be good and moral? ... "The L...

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Gandhi knew the path. It was straight and narrow. Gandhi believed that from his weakness he failed a thousand times, but he would not lose faith. His soul refused to be satisfied so long as it is a helpless witness of a single wrong or a single misery (Brown 3). But it was not possible for him, a w...

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These gods are in charge of evening out the defects of evils in civilization, with Fate as god above all the other gods. ... The idea of religion is to protect a man from the dangers of nature and Fate, and from the evil brought on by the civilization itself. ... In the end all good is rewarded and all evil punished, in the form of life, or life after death. ...

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In all of these religions, it is believed that man was made with the intent of bliss, but later on would come to an internal struggle with evil of the world. ... Therefore, the basic intent of religion can be seen as a combat of worldly evil: to unite the common good, through natural and social respect. ...

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CUBAN SANTERIA Santeria, which literally means, way of the saints', originated in Cuba. Santeria is considered an Afro-Cuban religion. It has roots in Africa, specifically the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria. When Africans were brought to the New World as slaves, they brought with them their Yoruba religious traditions (Nunez: 3). Slave owners forced them to give up their beliefs and convert to Christianity. ...

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Faith, however, when used to represent a psychological force, or as a reference to powers focused during the disciplines of Yoga, is quite a different matter. ... Concentration is not upon the "evil" resident in the personality, as was the case with theology, but upon the nature of beneficial changes in personality which can be worked. ...

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HUMAN CLONING Human nature has taught us that scientific breakthroughs have resulted in evil and dangerous exploitation. These exploitations can be seen in reality in military science. These breakthroughs have been manipulated into weapons of death and destruction against humanity and the use of...

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