Sermon in the eyes of a Non-believer

Today I went to my first church sermon in several years.  I thought that I had completely lost touch with God and my religion overall but when I woke up today I thought that I'd give myself another chance to reconnect with God and hopefully rid myself of my sins.  I heard from one of the locals that a man named Jonathan Edwards, the leader of the Puritan religion, was conducting a church service in the town of Enfield just down the road.  When I arrived at the church it seemed just like every other church that I'd been at through my like.  I walked in and sat down in the back since there was nobody else I knew there.

The one thing different about this sermon then all the other ones I had been through was the minister.  Mr. Edwards had a very unique way of preaching to the people.  Instead of trying to tell everyone how great God is and how wonderful your life will be if you join him and join the Puritan religion, he was trying to strike fear into the people there and almost scare them into joining him.  Mr. Edwards told the people how easy it was for God to just throw people down to hell and not allow them to join him in heaven.  He even says, "we find it easy to tread on and crush a worm that we see crawling on the earth;  so it is easy for us to cut or singe a slender thread that any thing hangs by; thus easy is it for God when he pleases to cast his enemies down to hell." As the speech went on he just continued to try and strike fear into the people stating things such as "the wrath of God burns them", "the arrow on moment from being made drunk with your blood", and "God that holds you over the pit of hell".

The moment that he was done speaking, after what seemed like three hours, I ran out of that church and got home as quickly as possible.  The only thing I got out of that speech was realizing that that man is criminally insane and should not be allowed to talk to people in public like that.  I now know that my choice of getting rid of religion in my life was the right one and I will not be going back to church again.  If God doesn't want me in his life, I don't want to be any part of any group following him.

My Impressions of Writing

In my personal experience with writing i have found that when handling major writing assignments or projects I tend to slack off when I'm not really motivated by the subject that I am writing about.Like last year in chemistry we had a research paper about an element and it really took a lot to find the determination to actually sit down and write about something that I honestly couldn't care less about.  When I'm trying to do a major assignment I always try and find a way to tie it back to something that I care about and want to spend my time on.  I feel like the confidence I have in my work also has to do with how much I care about the idea I'm writing about.  In a paper that I have no feelings for and I know that I didn't do my absolute best on for the simple reason of I didn't care for writing it but when it's a paper that I'm very interested in and I want to succeed on I tend to be very confident because I can feel like I couldn't do any better than I did and if I don't receive a good score on it I really had no room writing it.  I would like to improve just my overall writing ability from word selection to how i format my works.

The unit that I am most excited for is the unit over modern works during the 20th and 21st century.  I believe that this will be the unit that I do the best on because of its ties to more modern works that I am more used too and i feel like when dealing with things you're more comfortable with you tend to be more confident and do a lot better on that section.  The unit that I'm least excited for would have to be the poetry/poetry out loud.  I definitely think that this will be the unit that I do the worst on and will really have to try if I want to get a good grade on it.  I'm not very confident when it comes to poetry and then when you add in having to read poetry to a group of my peers it just doesn't make for a good situation.