RLG204H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Femicide, Al Pacino, Fatalism
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Can define any activity based on the three goals listed above. Issues the prophets faced and tried to give solutions to; Meaning of life - people need a meaning of life to feel as though they have a purpose. Issue of justice - - without justice, people are not able to think spiritually, too focused on survival. Issue of human loneliness and human solidarity and belonging alone) Donald trump being an asshole and now president. The issue of human kindness, care and responsibility for others o o o o. Why must we study islam in the west o o. Hostile image: why did the un not intervene in syria, rwanda, etc? when they intervened in. Difficulty in studying islam: ambiguity inherent in every religion o o o. Best example - the godfather (according to the professor) Al pacino going to church and yet he gives the orders to kill people o. Philosophy of life that they had - fatalism.
