Sweeping Generalizations

In response to Alex - full post here

I really like this meme and I've been laughing for quite sometime while looking at this website. I've always found it in bad taste, and rightly so, I think, to make sweeping generalizations about one group based off of a select few individuals. I've thought of comparing it to saying that all Christians picket soldier's funerals because the Westboro Baptist Church does. Or you could say that all Christian women have to wear black and cover their heads because Catholic nuns do.

Having more knowledge about the prophet Muhammad has helped me to strengthen the idea that Muslims are individuals too; they are different from each other. I mean, the knowledge from the book has done little in the way of changing my view of Muslims, it has however, given me more tools that I can to defend the religion against those who unfairly attribute to the many the characteristics and mindsets of the few

Thank the Good Lord

Jesus, as we have mentioned in class, was not 5 foot 7 inches, and he wasn't Caucasian, literate, or clean. In fact, he was short, stinky, and was middle eastern meaning that his skin was darker. By god, if Jesus came to our country today, we would pat him down in the airport. Then when he started to profess his radical ideas of freedom, equality, and change, we would write him off as a terrorist who threatens American freedom and liberty. We would likely put him in a detainment center wherein we would torture him for information on Al-Qaeda. Americans (especially those who lived near Jesus) would finally be able to sleep at night knowing that the streets are safe from middle-eastern men who threaten the American government by talking about such scary things as equality, and power and economic reform. Thank the god lord that we are so accepting and tolerant, and thank goodness that we have the ability to think for ourselves and realize when someone is offering something good/better than what we have now.

Welcome Jesus Into Our House

Many people confess that they love and support Jesus Christ. Though, conversely, they also support our current socio-economic system and the power dynamics of politics and home. Some of these people also claim that America was founded on what they would like to call Christian principles. I don't actually believe that is the case given that Jesus would not likely have agreed with the principles of America then or now. I doubt that Jesus would support capitalism and the individualistic motivation that excludes and disadvantages women and people of a different skin colour. Would these Americans let Jesus into their home? A man preaching about how the current economic and government systems are lousy and that we ought to replace them with a more socialist or communist system. Would they really humble themselves as Jesus suggests and help out a gay man, or a women with darker skin? I doubt it.

Also, here is a (somewhat related) picture: