Dantzel Petersen

Entertainment has been apart of human's lives for centuries. It is embedded into the desires of all humans. I was at some Roman's ruins the other day and I was reflecting about gladiators. I felt so sick about the thought of people cheering as people died. I sat there and thought about how death is such a scary and entertaining thing. It evokes the deepest of human emotions. As I sat in this gladiator pen I recognized that bull fighting also agreed with this idea that people are exhilarated when watching someone die! I couldn't wrap my head around why people could be okay to see people slaughtered. Then I realized that in our own way we do that in our society. The world praises another sort of death a death of spirit. it isn't in to see people die in front of you. But it is to have highly sexual films which  hit on a very very spiritually dangerous topic. I walked around and realized that we endorse often movies and music that illustrate clearly for us what stepping ...

Cathedrals and Roman Ruins These past weeks I have had spent a good amount of time in Cathedrals. Every Spanish City has a Cathedral. They of course are all so so beautiful. One thing that i adore about their Cathedrals is how often Women figures are present. It is hard in history to find evidence of women. Nevertheless, there is an abundance of women (naked or not) in history. One of my favorite images is a image of Mary pouring over her scriptures as the angel comes to tell her about Jesus Christ. I love to picture Mary as someone who studied her scriptures and was thoughtful. I also love Cathedrals because they have such incredible and sculptures of Jesus Christ. Every time I go into a Cathedral I pray to receive revelation about my Savior and thus far every time I walk into a new one I do.  Spain is such a special place because it has ties all over the world. Spain was at one time controlled by the Carthaginian which lead them to become, indirectly,  a world po...