I consider myself fairly religious. I also consider myself Christian. Do I think that Christianity is the only "right" religion? The God that I believe in would not discrimanate people based on how they worship him... How would he handle non-believers? I'm not sure, but I do know one thing - IT IS NOT MY JOB TO CONDEMN THEM! And neither is it any person's job who is walking on our beautiful planet today!
I am sickened by people's outrage at Obama's inclusion of non-Christian faiths and non-believers in his inaugural speech. We finally have a president who represents diverse groups of people in our country and religion is what we're screaming about?! Religion is one facet of diversity people!
And I get REALLY pissed when people use "our Christian society" to verbally persecute other religions! Yes, our country was built (primarily) by Christians, but don't forget WHY it was built! It was built to ESCAPE RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION AND HAVE RELIGIOUS FREEDOM!!! It was built so that no one would have to suffer the same kind of tribulations because of their religious beliefs that the pilgrims suffered!
And let's not forget what we did to the Native Americans when we came here! That is something we still pay for to this day!
I work with Muslims and Hindus and non-believers everyday at my school. The religious systems of the Muslims and Hindus are just as intricate and interesting as Christianity. And I love all of my students and collegues FOR their differences! I have three Mulsim students who run in and hug me every morning. They do not care that my beliefs are different than theirs, just like I don't care about their beliefs!
So, let's be the country that we're supposed to be! People come here from ALL OVER THE WORLD, escaping atrocities that only happen in our nightmares! We can't even imagine what most of these people have been through to get here! Let's not judge someone because they wear a headscarf, a turban, a yarmulke, or anything else. Let's judge people based on their actions and their attitudes!
Obama was right to include everyone in his speech, because he was elected by everyone! Christians, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, people from every race and creed voted for him! Should he ignore them just because they have a different belief system? ABSOLUTELY NOT! I give Obama props for making such a statement at his inauguration! YOU ROCK!!!!!
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Friday, January 23, 2009
Friday, September 26, 2008
Tonight's Debate and why I'm Horrified
After watching tonight's debate I am horrified at the possibility that McCain might be our next president. I have to admit that before tonight I was a little optimistic about the fact that no matter what we were getting it would be better than Bush, but I have lost that optimism tonight.
There were two things that were particulary scary to me about what McCain said during the debate:
1. That we can "win" the war in Iraq, and that if we do not win, soldiers will have died in vain. It seemed to me that "winning" to McCain is his primary objective and that he would "win" this war no matter what the costs. He continually ignored Obama's assertions that we needed to turn our efforts to Afghanistan and the Taliban, and he kept repeating his false presumptions about Obama's opinions. To me, McCain is still the soldier who can not or will not question the decisions of the chief. Sure, he questions it when it has to do with other things, but not the military or war.
2. McCain wants to start a League of Democracy...to take over the world? At least that was how I understood it. Let's get together all of the democratic nations and make everyone else do things the way we want them done! This was the scariest idea he brought to the debate tonight and (not to be redundent) it scares the bejeebers out of me.
For both of these points, I thought that Obama held himself very well. I especially liked his assertion that we need to get non-democratic countries involved. I am not saying that I have no questions about Obama (for instance, why hasn't he been to Afghanistan?), but if McCain is elected, I see another 4 years of war with no end in sight. I see rich continuing to get richer at the expense of the poor. I see our children continuing to get sub-par education and expected to compete in the global economy. I see the United States dropping further in the world view. I ask McCain, if you "know" all of these foreign leaders and have been to all of these places, why is it that foreign polls show that Obama is favored over you?
And I just want to leave off with this. Why is it that Obama could directly address, look at, and talk to McCain, while McCain could not even make eye contact with Obama, let alone address him by name? Obama spoke directly to McCain on numerous occasion and McCain not once even used Obama's name in a direct address. McCain constantly put down Obama with "I don't think Senator Obama understands" this, or "his naivete" about that. You go Barack Obama for not stooping to McCain's level and slinging mud at him! This was why I liked you in the primary debates. Hilary would sling and you would not give it back. You hold yourself to higher standards and I admire that!
There were two things that were particulary scary to me about what McCain said during the debate:
1. That we can "win" the war in Iraq, and that if we do not win, soldiers will have died in vain. It seemed to me that "winning" to McCain is his primary objective and that he would "win" this war no matter what the costs. He continually ignored Obama's assertions that we needed to turn our efforts to Afghanistan and the Taliban, and he kept repeating his false presumptions about Obama's opinions. To me, McCain is still the soldier who can not or will not question the decisions of the chief. Sure, he questions it when it has to do with other things, but not the military or war.
2. McCain wants to start a League of Democracy...to take over the world? At least that was how I understood it. Let's get together all of the democratic nations and make everyone else do things the way we want them done! This was the scariest idea he brought to the debate tonight and (not to be redundent) it scares the bejeebers out of me.
For both of these points, I thought that Obama held himself very well. I especially liked his assertion that we need to get non-democratic countries involved. I am not saying that I have no questions about Obama (for instance, why hasn't he been to Afghanistan?), but if McCain is elected, I see another 4 years of war with no end in sight. I see rich continuing to get richer at the expense of the poor. I see our children continuing to get sub-par education and expected to compete in the global economy. I see the United States dropping further in the world view. I ask McCain, if you "know" all of these foreign leaders and have been to all of these places, why is it that foreign polls show that Obama is favored over you?
And I just want to leave off with this. Why is it that Obama could directly address, look at, and talk to McCain, while McCain could not even make eye contact with Obama, let alone address him by name? Obama spoke directly to McCain on numerous occasion and McCain not once even used Obama's name in a direct address. McCain constantly put down Obama with "I don't think Senator Obama understands" this, or "his naivete" about that. You go Barack Obama for not stooping to McCain's level and slinging mud at him! This was why I liked you in the primary debates. Hilary would sling and you would not give it back. You hold yourself to higher standards and I admire that!
Monday, August 25, 2008
Obama's VP choice - Biden
I'm not really sure how to feel about Obama choosing Biden to be his VP on the Democratic ticket in the upcoming election. I've done a little digging over the past few days, looking at his website and what people are saying about him. Pretty much the biggest negative that people are bringing up is that he sometimes says things he shouldn't. (Okay, maybe that's a nice way to put it...is 'he says things that make him look like an asshole' any better?) Honestly, if that's people's biggest problem with him, I'll take it! I'd rather have a VP who knows what he thinks and doesn't hide his viewpoints on things! Better to have someone who comes out and says what he wants than someone who can't even string a sentence together grammatically!
I think he is a pretty good match for Obama. I think they will complement each other nicely. Here are few things that I like about Biden: 1) He is strong for education. No Child Left Behind is awful! We have had eight years of Bush messing up the country's education system, and doing nothing to remedy it! I strongly feel that Bush's intentions were good when he passed the NCLB Act, but almost immediately, it proved not to serve the purpose it was meant to. I'm putting my faith in Obama and Biden to change this for the good of our children!
2) Biden is religious AND pro-gay-rights! Finally, someone who has learned to think for himself! I know the Bible...I know the passages that say that homosexuality is a sin...but there are so many more passages that preach acceptance and tell us that it is not our job to judge others! Go Biden for being your own man!
3) Biden realizes that merely pulling all of our troops out of Iraq is WRONG! I want to end this war as much as anyone, but to simply pull out all of our troops would be murder. This is the one issue that really drew me to Obama during the caucuses at the beginning of the year. They both seem to have a plan for withdrawing from Iraq; they don't merely want "to have all troops out of Iraq in 6 weeks" (approximate words I heard coming out of Hilary and Bill Richardson's lips). Let's face facts people, we still have thousands of soldiers in South Korea, and that war ended forty years ago! Do you think we could just pull out of Iraq and everything will be hunky-dory?
All in all, I am pretty happy with Obama's choice for VP. Is there a better candidate out there? Probably! But there are probably better candidates for president out there, too! The people who are best suited to run this country never will because they are too good of people to be politicians. At least with Obama and Biden I feel like I will be voting for people and not politicians!
Now, I just hope that McCain doesn't go and do something smart like picking Lieberman or Powell for his VP and really screwing our chances for victory!
I think he is a pretty good match for Obama. I think they will complement each other nicely. Here are few things that I like about Biden: 1) He is strong for education. No Child Left Behind is awful! We have had eight years of Bush messing up the country's education system, and doing nothing to remedy it! I strongly feel that Bush's intentions were good when he passed the NCLB Act, but almost immediately, it proved not to serve the purpose it was meant to. I'm putting my faith in Obama and Biden to change this for the good of our children!
2) Biden is religious AND pro-gay-rights! Finally, someone who has learned to think for himself! I know the Bible...I know the passages that say that homosexuality is a sin...but there are so many more passages that preach acceptance and tell us that it is not our job to judge others! Go Biden for being your own man!
3) Biden realizes that merely pulling all of our troops out of Iraq is WRONG! I want to end this war as much as anyone, but to simply pull out all of our troops would be murder. This is the one issue that really drew me to Obama during the caucuses at the beginning of the year. They both seem to have a plan for withdrawing from Iraq; they don't merely want "to have all troops out of Iraq in 6 weeks" (approximate words I heard coming out of Hilary and Bill Richardson's lips). Let's face facts people, we still have thousands of soldiers in South Korea, and that war ended forty years ago! Do you think we could just pull out of Iraq and everything will be hunky-dory?
All in all, I am pretty happy with Obama's choice for VP. Is there a better candidate out there? Probably! But there are probably better candidates for president out there, too! The people who are best suited to run this country never will because they are too good of people to be politicians. At least with Obama and Biden I feel like I will be voting for people and not politicians!
Now, I just hope that McCain doesn't go and do something smart like picking Lieberman or Powell for his VP and really screwing our chances for victory!
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