Essays on Apostasy

With the conclusion of the World War II, the world witnessed the emergence of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) with the major purpose of protecting the dignity of all human beings. In 1993, the World Conference on Human Rights acknowledged that these human rights are universally relevant and applicable and no questions shall be raised about their authenticity (World Conference on Human Rights, 1993). Nevertheless, critics from around the world oppose the universality of human rights. Therefore, this essay asserts that the nature of the human rights’ universality is questionable. In the beginning, a brief discussion concerning ...

Faith is one of the central tenants of the Christian religion. One of the greatest depictions of this concept in film can be found in Darren Arofnosky’s Noah. In this non-traditional retelling of the classical Biblical story, there is an emphasis on the eponymous character trusting God to the greatest extents. He tries to go as far as possible with respect to what he perceives to be the will of God. This includes almost destroying his family in the process. In fact, it is only at the end that he finally reconciles with his family. He had been ...

Many civilizations have and still do treat the minorities in different ways. There are those religious organizations that are liberal and allow the minorities to thrive peacefully among themselves. Other religions oppress and persecute the minorities. Islam is one of the religions that are critically quoted as been the worst oppressors of the minorities since antiquity times. Muslims since ancient times have and still do hold with contempt the minorities in the Muslim states. There are several indicators as recorded by Lewis Bernard pp. 227-235. The Pact of Umar on page 217 outline the rules the minorities, specifically ...