help with paper

[dreaming neon darkspot]

so i'm doing a literary analysis of Flannery O'Conner's story Good Country People, which is basically the story of this totally boarish unappealing atheist woman being seduced by this innocent, wholesome young bible salesman who turns out to be a con artist. i'm writing about how their religious beliefs correspond to social archetypes, but need some outside sources, because otherwise this'll just be a big opinion piece. so what i need, if anyone can find it, are (hopefully credible) websites that explain christians' views on atheists - their deals about how God gave people life and atheists are just denying it, etc.

yeah... if anyone could help me out in such a way, it'd be much obliged. thanks!
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[Liverslapper]

got a good website worth checking out

http://www.religioustolerance.org/mettetal01.htm

 

[Lunar Still]

"Manly Pointer" still makes me chuckle.

 

[dreaming neon darkspot]

"Manly Pointer" still makes me chuckle.

ooo, you read it?

haha, maybe i can cite you an a source. i just hate how it's mandatory to have outside sources for this paper. i'm writing what i see in it. and what i see is basically the inverse of what all the other sites examining this story see.

 

[dreaming neon darkspot]

"Manly Pointer" still makes me chuckle.

and i totally didn't get that his name was a phallic joke until my lit teacher mentioned it

 

[Nightshade]

Have you considered the bible as an outside source?

 

[Captain Beard]

The bible is notoriously inaccurate and contradicts itself. Terrible source to cite.

 

[Lunar Still]

The bible is notoriously inaccurate and contradicts itself. Terrible source to cite.

Not if she is opposed to the pro-Christian slant of that particular story.

 

[Liverslapper]

people believe in a god the man made in our own image...i dislike religion, i really do. Bible is the most fictional book i have ever read, all a load of shit to me, i was force-fed christianity cause my parents were bible-hoppers, bitter taste all through my childhood, spent 3 years under a preachers teachings at a luthern church, all i learned was to hate it.

 

[Captain Beard]

I'd refuse to read it, write about it, and threaten action if they tried anything with me. *shrug* College: Worthless. Certification/licensing programs for specific jobs: The good way.

 

[Lunar Still]

Well it's not a preachy story, it just casts the atheism of its characters in a negative light. It's actually kinda twisted, involving a guy who collects fake body parts from women who think they're seducing him.

 

[Nightshade]

that it's ridiculous, and completely unintelligible out of context (i.e. now vs. 2000 years ago) is irrelevent. She's writing a paper about how xtians feel about athiests. The bible, that would be rule book they ignore 90% of the time, does address the issue. Besides, its fun to quote scripture out of context.

"And Judas threw the coins into the temple and went and hanged himself."
"Go thou and do likewise."

See?

 

[dreaming neon darkspot]

The bible is notoriously inaccurate and contradicts itself. Terrible source to cite.

especially for a teacher at a catholic college.


it's kinda funny... i've met more atheists here than i had before in my life.

 

[Captain Beard]

Admit it, you're all there to give the teachers a hard time.

 

[stefan86]

thought the title said "help with pooper"

 

[WhiteBeastofWotan]

that would have been a better title. I would have helped her too.

 

[dreaming neon darkspot]

that would have been a better title. I would have helped her too.

so i guess you want to help Eric have his revenge on will?

 

[stefan86]

I guess I just relate everything on this forum to poo

 

[dreaming neon darkspot]

I guess I just relate everything on this forum to poo

no. CARA related everything on this forum to poo.

now MAX relates everything on this forum to poo.

 

[WhiteBeastofWotan]

I am the present.