Religion Huck Finn Real Life Michael Plasmeier Bernadette

Religion • Huck Finn • Real Life • Michael Plasmeier • Bernadette Krause • Paul Schwartz • Dhara Patel Beckie Donohue

Book: Mindless Tradition • So I slid out and slipped off up the road, and there warn't anybody at the church, except maybe a hog or two, for there warn't any lock on the door, and hogs likes a puncheon floor in summertime because it's cool. If you notice, most folks don't go to church only when they've got to; but a hog is different. • Next Sunday we all went to church, about three mile, everybody a-horseback. The men took their guns along, so did Buck, and kept them between their knees or stood them handy against the wall. The Shepherdsons done the same. It was pretty ornery preaching--all about brotherly love, and such-like tiresomeness; but everybody said it was a good sermon, and they all talked it over going home, and had such a powerful lot to say about faith and good works and free grace and preforeordestination, and I don't know what all.

Book: Mindless Tradition • You couldn't make out what the preacher said any more, on account of the shouting and crying. Folks got up everywheres in the crowd, and worked their way just by main strength to the mourners' bench, with the tears running down their faces; and when all the mourners had got up there to the front benches in a crowd, they sung and shouted and flung themselves down on the straw, just crazy and wild.

Why Do You Go to Church? • Help others • Meet community • To pray (3) • My family goes

Book: Moral Questions: Slavery • Huck concerned that Jim stealing his children was stealing and felt bad • Conflicted several times about turning Jim in • Society says he should; but he sees Jim as a human • Stealing someone from slavery was considered the "wrong" thing to do. • Huck amazed Tom would help (Tom knew Jim was already free)

Conflicting Views On Slavery • Mary Jane very upset slave family separated • Miss Watson's religious nature doesn't make her immediately decide not to consider selling Jim down the river or see that slavery was wrong • Aunt Sally says "Well, it's lucky; because sometimes people do get hurt. " after she was told that no one was hurt but it killed a slave • Slaves treated as sub-humans • Events blamed on them (stealing the money)

Moral Question Today: Evolution • Importance: Our views on morality, justice, purpose, self-worth, humanity, obligation, and destination are all closely tied to our views on human origins. 1 • How did we get here? Where are we going? • How can we use science to help us understand how to save lives? 1 http: //www. allaboutphilosophy. org/creation-vs-evolution. htm

Moral Conflict Today: Stem Cell Research • Pros • Cons • Medical research can • Embryonic stem cell save the lives of adults • The tiny embryo has no human features extraction requires the destruction of the embryo • Some religions believe that human life starts at conception God Himself has blessed mankind with the ability to understand act on complicated scientific matters. We would be poor stewards of these gifts if we did not use them. “Playing God" is little more than extensions of Adam and Eve's illfated choice to eat of the tree of knowledge. http: //www. allaboutpopularissues. org/pros-and-cons-of-stem-cellresearch. htm http: //www. allaboutpopularissues. org/stem-cell-ethics-faq. htm

Book: Religion for Good • The mother figures Aunt Sally, Miss Watson, and the Widow Douglas are kind to Huck and Tom • While Pap is not (alcohol) • People genuinely want to help others • Perhaps a bit too eager: Pirates scam • “religion can also challenge such exploitative traditions insofar as religion warns us of the danger of human selfishness and teaches the widening of our moral sympathies to embrace all of humanity” http: //darwinianconservatism. blogspot. com/2008/01/huck-finns-darwinian-morality. html

Temperance: Religion Empowering People • During the Industrial Revolution, religious groups heavily pushed temperance – a reduction of alcohol intake • Used religious methods and dominated by evangelicals 1 • Alcohol hurt families and communities and created crime 2 • Result: Alcohol consumption halved 2 1 History Textbook page 367 2 History Textbook page 368

Religion: Helping Africans • "Faith-based organizations are a vital part of civil society, " said Dr Kevin De Cock, Director of WHO's Department of HIV/AIDS. "Since they provide a substantial portion of care in developing countries, often reaching vulnerable populations living under adverse conditions, FBOs must be recognized as essential contributors towards universal access efforts. " http: //www. who. int/mediacentre/news/notes/2007/np 05/en/index. html

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