Norton Anthology World Religion Analysis

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Faith, a concept taught by so many of the religions known to the world today. From Christianity to Buddhism, the idea that one must have faith in not only the religion, but also its’ texts and teachers. However, not all teachers or messengers are true to their known purpose to spread faith, some want to take away that faith rather than to reassure or place it there to begin with like the author of The Norton Anthology World Literature. Based upon the writing in the book compared to the Bible, the authors of The Norton Anthology World Literature book are trying to deter readers from becoming or being Christians. Prior to quoting the verses in the Bible as the author introduces it, the author speaks of the Bible as not a religion but another creation story. The tone of how the author speaks of the religion, such as when the Bible is compared to other literature with quotation marks …show more content…
As the author writes of God and His people, they write with a negative tone, “this early age is marked especially by God’s anger at humanity.” (Puchner, Akbari and Denecke) This statement gives the reader, if they haven’t read the bible for themselves, a sense that God is an angry, vengeful God full of hate rather than a loving and compassionate God. For someone who hasn’t read the whole Bible or not at all, this tone in the writing would turn several people from thinking there is a plan or wanting to be a Christian. Alongside how the author portrays God is how he views His chosen people, viewing them as God picking favorites without a care to the anyone but those chosen, such as Noah. Noah is viewed as one of his chosen people, by the author, and drawing that attention toward him for no precise reasons, with these mindsets in mind it is easy to draw conclusions about Him that could deter one from the religion just as he continues to do as he attempts to describe the
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