Modern Religious Experience: Reflection #9: The Incarnation of God

Modern Religious Experience: Reflection #9: The Incarnation of God: "After viewing 'The Nativity Story', analyzing your chosen Christmas carol, and reading Philippians 2:1-7, reflect on the meaning of Christma..."

Christmas is not for presents , turkey,etc, but it's is to celebrate the Birth of Jesus

I chose silent night for my Christmas carol because I think it best describes the Nativity story.

Jesus ,a holy infant that the angels will sing hallelujah for. The information say’s that he is the savior and king. the part of the carol that I show below emphasizes the night that Mary and Joseph arrive at his home town and how unreal it suddenly gets, then it shows how Mary had Jesus at that very moment, the child, Jesus is Holy and ends calmly to let them sleep after a hard days trek. It basically means that Jesus came to earth from a poor but humble family as a human so he could show the way to the others. He wanted to live among the people of this earth as he grew up.God chose this way to give light to Jesus because it shows that God is personal.

SILENT NIGHT

Silent night, holy night
All is calm, all is bright
Round yon Virgin Mother and Child
Holy Infant so tender and mild
Sleep in heavenly peace
Sleep in heavenly peace

Modern Religious Experience: Reflection #8 Islam: Two Perspectives

Modern Religious Experience: Reflection #8 Islam: Two Perspectives: "Find where Islamic religious beliefs intersect with current events. Research a Western news source on the story and summarize the artic..."

This first article that I researched about was about the reactions of Afghanistan to the Koran books burning . The Afghans protested against the American burnings so in effect the Afghans started burning U.S. flags."if the Koran is burned, then it would be the beginning of destruction of America." is the statement the Afghans said to the U.S to intimidate. This event was very heart breaking for the afghans and took a pro Afghan approach.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100909/ap_on_re_as/quran_burning_reaction

The other article is a reaction of the U.S to the Koran Burning. some of the many U.S. churches decided to burn the Korans on the 9/11 anniversary, saying that Islam is the religion of devils The U.S. reactions is very surprising because most people actually agreed to carry the burning s on but mostly because of the sour thought of 9/11 on the back of their heads, Islamic followers warned the Christian church that they should have not done it and that there will be a hostile conflict between the 2 religions http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/seealso/2010/09/us_reaction_to_pastors.html

These articles show a very noticeable difference of support and it seems that there will be a hostile tension between Islam and Christianity and the middle east Islamic countries toward the U.S

Modern Religious Experience: Personal Commemoration- Reflection #7

Modern Religious Experience: Personal Commemoration- Reflection #7: "Think of an event in your life- past, present or future. You are going to create a commemorative ritual for this event. First, describe the ..."

The event I chose was the move to Korea. This event happened on July of 2009 and it when I moved from Mexico to Korea. This is important because it has been the first time I have moved to another continent. The conmemoration will last for about 20 hours because it is about the time it takes to fly from Mexico to Korea. The phrase to say during the conmemoration is" there is pleasure in every adventure you take, so the adventure to move countries is a great pleasure". Lastly for this event the people should be doing something out of the usul to signify the change of culture.