Part one of term paper
Religious suffering is at one and the same time the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people…The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the deman ...

Part two of term paper
... lack of supernaturalism in Ruth shifts the emphasis of the story onto human interactions, focusing on the lives of Ruth and Naomi. The non-existence of God in the Book of Ruth exposes the adherence to God and patriarchy as the actual root of the female characters’ problems. The unique nature of the Book of Ruth gives rise to its debatable intent, as well as promotes further analyses of the text. Aside from Job, Ruth is the only book in the Biblical canon named after a non-Israelite, as well as th ...