Fear of Sin
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Summary(King James Bible, Psalms 34:1)
With patriarchal systems prevalent in most societies, masculinity is often exalted as a source of universal power. Critics, often focused on the issues of political correctness and moral integrity in such sexist assumptions, never object to the actual existence of beliefs in male dominance. But the strength of men born into these earthly patriarchies is meaningless before God, reduced to the weakness inherent to any subordinate group. Just as Eve was formed of Adam’s rib, so did “the Lord God [form] man of the dust of the ground, and [breathe] into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul” (King James Bible, Gen. 2.7). Men are entitled to the control of the carnal bodies of women but are not themselves in control of their eternal souls. Women, taught to follow since birth, fulfill their Christian roles naturally; Mary is idealized throughout the religion for her acquiescence and the literal contentment she feels when obeying the formative power of God (Podles 36). However, men can only be forced into obedience, feminized by their forfeiture of leadership and autonomy. They can only be controlled through fear.
With patriarchal systems prevalent in most societies, masculinity is often exalted as a source of universal power. Critics, often focused on the issues of political correctness and moral integrity in such sexist assumptions, never object to the actual existence of beliefs in male dominance. But the strength of men born into these earthly patriarchies is meaningless before God, reduced to the weakness inherent to any subordinate group. Just as Eve was formed of Adam’s rib, so did “the Lord God [form] man of the dust of the ground, and [breathe] into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul” (King James Bible, Gen. 2.7). Men are entitled to the control of the carnal bodies of women but are not themselves in control of their eternal souls. Women, taught to follow since birth, fulfill their Christian roles naturally; Mary is idealized throughout the religion for her acquiescence and the literal contentment she feels when obeying the formative power of God (Podles 36). However, men can only be forced into obedience, feminized by their forfeiture of leadership and autonomy. They can only be controlled through fear.
Table of Contents
- With patriarchal systems prevalent in most societies, masculinity is often exalted as a source of universal power.
- Men fear sin because as sinners they relinquish their rights to Heaven.
- This Christian conviction that sin resides within the innate savageness, inseparable from the defining characteristics of masculinity, is best proven by the popularity of missionaries during the years of British Colonization.
- Missionaries took quite seriously the calling of Jesus Christ to spread the teachings of the Lord, but this brash goal for universal Christianity
- Based on conversation and action alone, Othello appears as Venetian as the other characters.
- The authority of his family is replaced with the authority of his teachers.
- A girl stood before him in midstream, alone and still, gazing out to sea. She seemed like on whom magic had changed into the likeness of a strange and beautiful seabird.
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