This essay topic should be easy. All I would need to do is agree or disagree with the moral teachings of the religious texts we had gone over in class. However, after rereading and compiling a list of the stories I would wish to analyze, I was again hit by the question that would never go away: "What is morality?"
Damnit! I thought I was done with the whole issue back when we finished reading Freud. Obviously, morality is in the eye of the observer. However, the eye of the observer is usually directly linked to faith. To a devout Christian, the Bible should be a rulebook of morals. If the Bible tells you that adultery is immoral, then adultery is immoral. End of question. So if I were a devout Christian who only knew to obey and not to think for myself, this essay would consist of how all the Bible stories are moral.
Luckily, I am not such a person, and interpret the Bible as merely a book of stories. The first time I ever read the Bible was for this class, and I found it very......
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