Thank God

So as I sat staring at my blogs, only one thought can come to my mind. Thank God this is finally done. As I said in my first blog, I really don't like writing about my feelings or do I really think people want to read them. This blog assignment i had turned out to be harder than I thought. It seemed to take me forever to find something that wouldn't bore me enough so I could read the whole article and then after that I had to write about it. I did enjoy finding some of those videos though and speaking of Bush. As I am on my last blog I would like to look back at everything I have learned. I feel like I have learned a lot since I did not have any prior knowledge of any other religions or that much political background. I am a political science major but I like the animal rights class and stuff like that. I feel more educated and hopefully I started to sound more educated too. I really did enjoy Lobdell's class and it has proven to be one of the more beneficial classes I have taken here at UCI. I feel now like I can debate in religious talks and political ones. I feel like I know more about Romney than he does. I got to see how religious some leaders are and it really does scare me. I hope that in the future our leaders have a faith but are not ran by it. I have nothing against religion but I believe it plays too big of a role. Look at all the major wars in history and religion can play to some part of it. In closing, thank you for taking the time to read my blogs and I hope it was beneficial. As I finally finish I am thankful for taking this class and learning as much as I did. I am forever changed.

Jesus Juice

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-huckabee2dec02,1,7091858.story?coll=la-politics-campaign&ctrack=1&cset=true

Conservatives have a new guy to look up to: Mike Huckabee. He is the governor of Arkansas for the last 10.5 years. He is a Southern Baptist that proclaims his faith is foundation for all his decisions believing in what is right and wrong. He is hoping the be a Republican presidential nominee. HIs faith is the main reason for this article though. They keep bringing his South Baptist background to all his policy-making since he was a southern preacher. He is anti-abortion and anti-gay rights but definitely loves to tax people so already I don't like him. He kind of is like Bush. He lets his faith rule him. I have nothing against faith but why does your faith have to dictate my life. He may be a great but I have already shut him off since he can't be logical and let that play a role in his decision making. From the article he has many accomplishments but can he really credit them all to his faith and nothing to his own rationality. Are rationalist a minority in our country? I hope not. Rationalist keep us alive. Huckabee could be a great leader, but he needs to tone the faith down. Be faithful but don't impose it on everyone else.

Gay Hotel

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/03/world/americas/03argentina.html?ref=world

Gays are finally accepted in Buenos Aires. They have made a hotel entirely designed to accomidate gays. It's nice to see a country to accepting of gays and I wish our nation could be more accepting. This country used to jail gays but not holds the most gay rights. They even had the first World Cup for gay soccer players there. Buenos Aires has a Catholic descent but they still believe in people's right. I believe being gay is a biological thing and why should you be punished for how you feel inside. This country is so anti-gay and so bible crazy that they won't let gays have any rights. We can learn a thing from Buenos Aires and really accept people for who they are. As a country ran by money, you think they would love gay money but I guess they think they are better.

An Increase In BC

So you may ask, how does birth control have anything to do with religion? Let me answer you. It has everything to do with it. How come birth control used to be cheap and now all of a sudden its expensive? Look who is in office, Mr. Bush. I am not saying he did it himself but he probably approved or started this change. Birth control is a necessity. With the higher prices on birth control, girls either switched to the morning after pill (which in multiple doses is not healthy for you) or nothing at all. Kimberly Martinez of some Abstinence group thought this was a great thing. She thinks without birth control, girls will stop having sex. Wrong, they will just keep having it but not the government may need to pay for her abortion. Abstinence is some Christian thing so this increase can relate back to that. If we didn't have such a religious right in our government, this increase would never happen. They think it is abuse of our insurance companies but insurance companies should be there to help us, not make a profit. We should really follow the French and have socialized insurance.

Chuck Norris on the Bible

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7czRrFNRQO0&feature=related

Chuck Norris is on a tangent now. He appeared to be speaking for the bible being taught in public schools. Why Chuck why? Is everyone Christian in public schools??? Does everyone have to waste even more time and teach kids of something they may not need in the future. Spend that time and teach more math. Most people still can't add. Why is Chuck making a commercial to promote this. What is it to him? I find it stupid. I went to Catholic school and I hated bible classes. Now imagine you have that class in high school. Already so many people ditch class, this would only increase that amount. Go back to fighting in movies Chuck and leave the public schools alone.

Bible and Romney

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/01/us/politics/01romney.html?ref=politics

So basically on Wednesday's night Republican presidential debate, Romney was asked if he believed every word of the bible. He sort of tip-toed around the question but said, “I believe the Bible is the word of God, absolutely.” He didn't want to answer the question directly because he doesn't believe every word but that would of made Christians mad and that is who he is trying to appeal to. I hate how he can't answer honestly (or for that fact, no one ever answers honestly) what he really believes. Has our nation really come down to this where we can't really speak our true feelings. Do we really have to mask everything to make everyone happy? Can we not stand out and stand up for what we really believe in? So what, he is Mormon. Get over it. Does that mean he will trying to get everyone to have multiple wives - No. That's his personal life and has nothing to do with how he would run the office. The only guy that really infused his faith on the world in Bush. His right-wingedness doesn't like abortion, gay rights, or stem-cell research. All things that are against his faith to him. if I want to get an abortion, I don't want Bush telling me I can't. Is he going to pay for the hospital bills, food, clothes, and the personal trainer to get me back in shape - No. Unless you are going to help everyone with your faith, leave it alone. It is just faith and nothing else.

Romney is back

Romney is back and he is hear to talk. It is decided that on Thursday, December 6th he will address the nation with their concerns on his faith in Texas. This was pretty close to where John F. Kennedy did his speech nearly 50 years ago. His speech will be called "Faith in America," which will “share his views on religious liberty, the grand tradition religious tolerance has played in the progress of our nation and how the governor’s own faith would inform his presidency if he were elected.” I think it is about time. Most people said they wouldn't vote for a Mormon candidate so he needs to show the people what they are missing out on. It's sort of ironic since he really didn't want this election to be on his faith but it is. This nation is always fixated on the unimportant things. Because of peoples stupidity is why Bush is in office. If Al Gore was president the world would of been much better. No global warning for one thing and probably no war. But back to Romney. I can't wait until his address and plan to watch it. Hopefully it will be beneficial and not destructive. (You may find this article on the New York Times website and I am not sure where the speech will be aired).