Taoism vs Chinese History

Taoist texts can help deepen our understanding of Chinese history because they are very similar. The Chinese took the same looks on life just like the Taoist's did. The Chinese sent petitions and documents to the emperor just like the Taoists but they sent them to another world. The structures and  bureaucracies are very similar. Taoism is an important religion to the Chinese. There was proof of there being Taoist popes but they were lost until the Song. Taoist priests use the same terms and practices as the Chinese priests do. The Chinese have thought about teaching Taoism in schools but decided not to. Today, Taoism is expressed as part of traditional Chinese culture that the government is promoting but only certain aspects of the religion. The Chinese Constitution guarantees freedom of religious belief but not religious practice. Many Taoist priests do illegal things now. They are allowed to do rituals but can't claim to actually accomplish anything with the ritual, or else it will be superstitious. If a Taoist priest claims their ritual will actually heal something, someone or save their relatives, they can be put in jail for fraud.

Holocaust Story Blog

I think the story of Moshe Yosef Daum and Fela Nussbaum is similar to The Book of Job because mostly everything that happened to Job happened to Moshe and Fela. Job got everything taken away from him, for example, his family was killed by God, he was rich and then he was poor and his house was destroyed for nothing. Moshe and Fela had children that they had to give away for their own safety during the Holocaust. All three people probably thought "Why?". Both stories showed that the characters were faithful to God, and then they get punished by him for no reason, and they probably wondered where was he when they need him most. Although God replaced all of Job's things - his family, his house, his money, he didn't want all new things, he wanted the things he had before God cursed him. This also goes for Moshe and Fela because before they were killed they definitely wanted things to back to the way they were before they were a part of the Holocaust, or even before the Holocaust was an event in that time of history. The differences in these stories are they happened at different time periods and they were different events occurred in history. Another difference is they both have different people and things were included in these stories.

The Book of Job

The Book of Job is similar to the other stories we've read about during the Old Testament .The story of Abraham and Isaac is similar The Book of Job because it is based off of the same situations. These situations are someone/something is being sacrificed The people in The Book of Job also had to show their faithfulness to God just like Abraham had to do when he was about to sacrifice his son to show God that he truly loves him. The story of Noah's Ark is similar to The Book of Job because there is a father that is surrounded by children and animals like Noah when he builds his ark. Noah also curses his grandson just like Job did.

The Book of Job is different from all the other stories in the Old Testament. This is because The Book of Job is not focused on one thing in the story. It is focused on many things that connect to other stories the Old Testament, but this is why it is different.