We don't just want to look at some games and drink beers. You have to work, but even if you're not a theologian student you can follow the class," he said, adding that those who don't believe the team is a religion can still earn high marks.
Its a different way to show that we have fun but also still taking the class seriously at the same time.
The arena is their temple, the players are their saviours, and those who worship them pray that the sacrifices made on the ice — of blood, sweat and tears — will lead them to glory.They are the fans of the Montreal Canadiens.In Prof. Olivier Bauer's class at the Université de Montréal, worshippers can argue that their team is their religion."It's a divine inspiration," Bauer said of the idea behind the theology course that begins in January 2009.Two years ago, shortly after the minister moved to Montreal, he and one of his students decided the university should offer the opportunity to study whether the Canadiens are, in fact, a faith
It's funny how people elevate athletes to the status of gods by placing them on lofty pedestals. That is something I will never get, but to each their own.
The melee, which forced the game to be suspended, ushered in arevolution.
demonstrates the extent of the influence this had outside of the athletics world. It's absurd that a sport could bring about such a profound shift in individuals.
On the night of Thursday, March 17, 1955, the haze was aghostly yellowish white. Smoke from a tear-gas canister haddriven thousands of hockey fans into the streets, sparking afour-hour rampage that yielded the requisite fires, shatteredwindows, looted stores, overturned cars and 137 arrests. Sportsriots have become commonplace, but the one in '55 was like noother because one of its central figures, Maurice Richard, waslike no other hockey player
Reflecting on this event brings to mind the riots that have occurred throughout the United States of America. Though we are fighting harder than the riots, we are more prepared today. It seems that rather than characterizing a riot as what it is, the news media of today refers to it as a demonstration. False information providers should be prosecuted for inciting a riot since they are encouraging the conduct and giving the impression that it is OK.
ed against the boards in the corner by the other defenseman, he broke free, skated across the crease, lured the goalie out of the net then whipped the puck past him to put the Habs into the Stanley Cup finals. A Richard goal inspired a celebration in the home of the bleu-blanc-et-rouge like no other. “The singular and sudden pandemonium that shatters the Forum, like thunder and lightning” was “many decibels above in volume” the applause for any other goal, Herbert Warren Wind wrote in Sports Illustrated. “There is no sound quite like it in the whole world of spo
There was no other sound like that until LaBron scored the block that helped the Cavaliers win the title once more! I really understand this feeling.
No one can know when the anger of men, whipped indefinitely, becomes sculpted into political revenge. And more, it is not just a matter of hockey.”
It's fascinating how politics and athletics coexist. It appears that this has been the case from the beginning of sports and will be so until the very end.
Richard's story had linesman Cliff Thompson holding him back, arms pinned, while Laycoe was allowed to smack away. Rocket said he warned the linesman three times to let him go before he finally clocked the official.
The retelling of stories serves as a powerful example of how different viewpoints observe the same events from different angles and how most stories in human history—regardless of their significance or status as private memories—are unique to each individual. Everybody views things from a different angle.
Sticks were high, fists flew, blood often smeared the ice, and the owners thought this was all manly and a great way to sell tickets.
Was this really the right decision? because voilence doesn't always solve everyone's problems.
Country folk do not die for love, nor spend the rest of their days nursing a wound. They are too near to nature, and know too well the stern laws that rule their lives. Thus it is perhaps, that they are sparing of high-sounding words; choosing to say "liking" rather than "loving" ... "ennui" rather than "grief," that so the joys and sorrows of the heart may bear a fit proportion to those more anxious concerns of life which have to do with their daily toil, the yield of their lands, provision for the future.
One more allusion to terror. Too scared to stay in their own happiness or grief. As if joy or grief are unworthy of them. They have to reserve their sentiments for more deserving causes since life is so difficult.
The women of the Chapdelaine household had no part in the work of the fields. The father and his three tall sons, all strong and skilled in farm labour, could have managed everything by themselves; if they continued to employ Legare and to pay him wages it was because he had entered their service eleven years before, when the children were young, and they kept him now, partly through habit, partly because they were loth to lose the help of so tremendous a worker. During the hay-making then, Maria and her mother had only their usual tasks: housework, cooking, washing and mending, the milking of three cows and the care of the hens, and once a week the baking which often lasted well into the night.
This was the way of life for so long. Compared to other eras, there are much more women working now.
Seizing the bucket he drank half its contents and poured the rest over his head and neck; still dripping, he threw himself afresh upon the vanquished stump and began to roll it toward a pile as one carries off a prize.
I have also had to dig out the stumps and roots after cutting down trees, so I can only somewhat understand how you feel! Of course, I had better tools and assistance, but it makes sense that the rent was cheap if this was the amount of hard effort the locals had to perform in order to live on the land.
Accustomed for fifteen years to hear her mother vaunting the idyllic happiness of the farmer in the older settlements, Maria had very naturally come to believe that she was of the same mind; now she was no longer certain about it.
We develop in this way—by learning about various professions, cultures, and individuals. Growing up, it's easy to stick to what you've always known, but as you get older, it's crucial to maintain an open mind to avoid missing out on amazing experiences.
The icy road held alongside the frozen river.
This passage of the reading is really detailed, so I can clearly see what they're attempting to say. I feel that I'm actually cold while reading this.
he door opened, and the men of the congregation began to come out of the church at Peribonka.
In all societies, the church/religion has always been extremely significant. This plays a very important role in their society.
All took place in Holy week very nearly as last year; the washing of feet at the hospital
why are they doing this? I don't understand.
set fire to all the huts. They proceeded to vent their rage on those two Fathers; for they took them both and stripped them entirely naked, and fastened each to a post. They tied both of their hands together. They tore the nails from their fingers. They beat them with a shower of blows from cudgels, on the shoulders, the loins, the belly, the legs, and the face,—there being no part of their body which did not endure this torment.
I'm not sure how they came to believe that this was OK. I am aware that they were most likely raised to believe that this is OK. But I fail to see how you could ever do this to someone else. This is terrible beyond belief. The fingernails caught my attention the most.
"The Iroquois came, to the number of twelve hundred men; took our village, and seized Father Breboauf and his companion; and set fire to all the huts.
For the Hurons and other religious people in New France, it must have been a terribly frightening period. The Iroquois, in large numbers, were furious.
o that he had to confess that he could not succeed, and he declared that the crops would not ripen; but unfortunately, or rather fortunately for us, he said that he was hindered from making it rain by a Cross which is before our door, and that the house of the French was a house of demons, or of ill-disposed people who had come into their Country in order to make them die
He seemed to be feeling intimidated, which is why he accused the French. especially since it is now established that he cannot control the rain. Who will the aboriginal people believe, I wonder?
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Based on your deeds, you as a human choose whether you want to go to paradise or hell. As we become older, we become aware of the distinctions so that we can decide. It is expected of you to comprehend what heaven and hell are from the beginning of time. You should be aware of the requirements to enter any location.
This method, along with the little rewards, has wonderful results. For, in the first place, it has kindled among all the children so great a desire to learn that there is not even one who, if it can stammer out words at all, does not desire to be instructed; and, as they are almost all fairly intelligent, they make rapid progress, for they even [12] teach one another.
As like they're attempting to get something from this. Their "selfless" deeds appear far less selfish with this addendum.