A lot of us, especially if we're young, often wonder how effective our blogs are, and how many people care about our opinions. What we should be worrying about is how to make people care about the issues we care about. In my opinion, the most important things to focus on include (A) being well-educated, (B) being bold, and (C) being respectful.
This article attempts to deal with the issue of religion in government from what is hopefully a little-expressed or considered viewpoint.
Introduction: Great Religious Thinkers
Homework: we all hate it.
Actually, I don't hate it. Once I start on homework, I get really into it. Things you might hear me say:
"All right! I finished that confounded math problem!"
"Oooh, Schrodinger's Equation, I get it now!"
"All I have left is to figure out the thesis of my paper!"
Do you want respect from your readers? Do you think you should respect your readers?
Long, lengthy arguments about global warming are not my forte. Here's the short form, if you don't want to read a lot about it. To be honest, a lot of people make excessively long and somewhat boring arguments involving global warming. Do you want to read an entire essay? No, you can get all you need to know about it, right here.
I've thought long and hard on the issue of "religious freedom." I've also noted varying terminology for this conception, including "tolerance", "non-advocacy", and "equal treatment."
That aside, one of the issues would appear to be the difference between a government that
(A) Advocates freedom to believe
About a week ago I sat in a theater in the school library, along with a hundred-odd other students, to watch a culturally-significant movie about or from Asia. This is a conversation that I heard repeated at least twice on my way out of the theater...
Person 1: "Oh, wow, the nuclear fallout from Hiroshima was pretty bad. I feel sorry for all of those people."
