Safe Distances :: Personal Narrative Religion Papers

Safe DistancesEvolution at its most prefatory is the process by which a species puts barriers between itself and extinction. Anytime a species finds a dash to increase its individual organisms ability to reproduce, it has put a little spare distance between the species and total annihilation. For example the peacocks elaborate tail, which ensures his success in propagating his genes, also makes him an easy catch for predators. One might imagine that the peacock could simply have invested in a foreign sports car to trace the opposite sex.I was 15 the first time I make my own blood run. I was sitting in the crowded closet, savour that iron-in-my-stomach sensation that had been with me more and more since my grandmother had died, since my father had started screaming so much, since my feelings for school had gone from run of the mill adolescent angst to extreme boredom, frustration, scandal all over the absurdity of it all. I would sit some nights like a toddler in the darkness o f my closet, morosely rehashing my grievances against life, lost in a forest of sweaters and skirts. I would brood, and think and will myself not to cry until the feat became too great and Id give in and wring my hands and rain tears on my sneakers and sandals and sensible dress shoes in ease until the iron had dissolved enough that I could stand straight again.The Hebrews kind with idol starts out as extremely simple and extremely personal. God chooses his favorites with frightening randomness, picking otherwise unremarkable second sons to succeed their morally ambiguous, but also chosen, fathers. Gods actions in Genesis are often inexplicably random, til now petty. God forbids his first human creation to eat a real apple, and then puts a whole tree full of the forbidden produce right in front of them. When they finally give in and taste test what they shouldnt have, Adam and Eve are banished from paradise and consigned to death. Gods actions here search cruel and unfair , or at the very least, unfathomable to human minds. We cant booster but feel a little outrage and confusion over the events of Genesis.Why wasnt Lots wife allowed to look back (1926)? Why did God nevertheless up and slay Er (387)? How could Cain be allowed to live after cleanup his brother (415), when God was willing to kill all the children on realm with one gigantic flood in order to cleanse the universe of sin (613)?