Walking in obedience is far greater than sacrifice. God shows us in (I Samuel 15:23) “For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king.” Wow, did you know rebellion is witchcraft? You see, sin is the beginning of disobedience. We face the sin nature now as the result of Adam and Eve’s action toward God, since the inception of time. However, in this verse, God is commanding Saul to destroy the Amalekites, Out of fear Saul did not follow the instruction of the Lord, therefore, being rebellious and suffered the consequences. At this point, God rejected him from being King. Witchcraft is the work of the enemy to
Erich Fromm’s essay “Disobedience as a Psychological and Moral Problem” suggests that humankind’s evolution has, and continues to rely on man’s capability to exercise disobedience. While discussing the positions of disobedience being considered a vice, and obedience being a virtue, Fromm reflects upon the history of Adam and Eve believing that “eating the forbidden fruit” was man’s first act of disobedience. This is the point that broke the bond between man and nature requiring man to be dependant upon his own powers, while rewarding him with his “complete” humanity, freedom,
University of Missouri football players band together in protest of Timothy Wolfe, the University of Missouri president. Black students were antagonized on campus, so students organized a walkout Monday, November 9, 2015 and the following Tuesday in protest of the university not doing anything. According to a New York Times article, “…dozens of black football players issued a blunt ultimatum: Resign or they won’t play” (Marc Tracy and Ashley Southall, Black Football Players Lend Heft to Protests at Missouri). A forfeited game would cost the university one million dollars, the article says. Also, at the homecoming parade, students blocked Mr. Wolfe’s car in order to speak to him when officials would
"Civil Disobedience" was an essay reflecting America at that time in our history. It was written during the Second Great Awakening, which brought religion to the forefront once more due to the significant increase of democratization in the American people. This democratization of religious life and revivalism during the early 1800s represented a widespread tendency throughout the United States and Europe to accentuate the stirrings of the spirit and the heart rather than succumb to the dry logic of reason (Tindall and Shi 394). This feeling of wanting more spirit and heart in America brought forth the Romantic movement, a time of literary and philosophical growth. The Romanic movement brought many renowned authors such as Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman (The Greatest Democrat the World has ever seen), Edgar Allen Poe, and Henry David Thoreau, the author of “Civil Disobedience” (Foster, “Religion and Romanticism”).
Civil disobedience is present in our day to day lives. During the civil rights protests occurring in Birmingham, AL, Eugene Connor was the Commissioner of Public Safety who publicly attacked African Americans with fire hoses and dogs. The Boston Tea Party was a rebellion which led to major tax reformation. Another moment in history of disobedience would be the Civil Rights movement. Oscar Wilde claims social progress is promoted through disobedience and rebellion which is valid.
The Mpemba Effect is the observation that warm water freezes quicker than cold water in certain circumstances. The warm water seems counterintuitive but ultimately catalyzes the freezing process. The warm water represents disobedience and the freezing process represents social progress. Disobedience has a negative connotation, which contradicts the idea of positive progression but in many cases, can actually accelerate it. Many commonly misinterpret disobedience as violence, when in actuality, some of the most powerful reformers in history have emphasized nonviolence. Rosa Parks, the Greensboro Sit-ins, and the Birmingham Campaign all validate the idea that disobedience generates social progress.
Civil disobedience is the refusal to conform to certain laws as a form of harmless political protest, while being aware of the consequences that could result because of it. Peaceful resistance to laws positively impacts a free society because actions are taken due to people letting their voice be heard. While some may argue that the main reasons of this are the five basic rights mentioned in the first amendment (freedom of speech, religion, press, assembly, and petition), this issue goes far beyond that. Without civil disobedience, many historical events might have not played such an important role as they did to the point that they changed America in numerous ways; not to mention the courageous people who still take part in protests today to claim the rights they should have.
Most individuals all throughout the world turn to civil disobedience when trying to stand up for an symbol worthy of protest. In the grand majority of the cases, this sort of rebellion is in defiance of an authoritative persona or a law that has been set in place that individuals do not necessarily agree with.
Oscar Wilde claims that disobedience is man’s original virtue. There is clearly truth to that statement. Our history is an example; we wouldn’t have made any progress; if our ancestors hadn’t been disobedience. The colonist’s were some of the first to be disobedience; hence, the Boston Tea Party. Martin Luther King Jr. “nonviolent civil disobedience”. Rosa Parks refused to obey the bus driver. These are some examples that disobedience is a valuable human trait.
The right to oppose a law that one might consider unjust and choose to disobey it in a peaceful matter is essential to a true democracy. Throughout history, the most notable acts of civil disobedience have been achieved in the pursuit of equality and freedom, such as the Boston Tea Party and the civil rights movement. A specific example would be Rosa Parks' refusal to surrender her seat on a city bus in 1955. As seen in these specific cases, due to courageous civilians a precedent of a free just nation for all was set subsequently making the nation a better place for minorities.
Nothing is handed over immediately, someone must desire a certain thing to be given. Civil responsibilities have always painted a refined timeline in history. It is no doubt revolutions are constructed, rebellion will trample down a government, and words can produce an insurrection. During his stay at Birmingham Jail, Dr.King writes an ironic letter━Letter from Birmingham Jail━with a message, “freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.”(King, 3) The words of King creates a powerful statement for a civil responsibility, in which is completely agreeable and correct that it is seen in today’s society, the Declaration of Independence, and Henry David Thoreau’s On the Duty of Civil Disobedience.
Peaceful resistances to unjust laws both positively and negatively impact a free society. After there has been enough national attention over these protests, large opposition can ensue violence. No matter how careful, meaningful, or powerful the peaceful protestors are there has been a backlash of violence from many different parties. Civil disobedience has been a predominant way minorities have fought for their rights. Women and African Americans have been protesting since the beginning of the United States through civil disobedience.
Oscar Wilde believed rebellion was necessary for social progress and confided in disobedience being an essential human trait. In order to experience modification, you rebel against the discriminating laws that bring problems to you and your people. Furthermore, when awareness is given to an issue, there is extensive social progress being taken place.
In history, man has always been known to disobey. As much as this sounds like a negative thing, it has actually led to much progress.
All humans are disobedient and it's not necessarily a bad thing. Disobedience brings progress to society. Influential leaders, like Martin Luther King Junior, lead us to new beginnings. Disobedience cannot be simply categorized as a bad trait, it's a natural character trait that all of us humans have. Although there are types of disobedience that will be detrimental to us, it’s still a useful and common trait we need to progress in society. It is human nature that we will not stay in the same environment. There is no way around it.
“The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment". 1