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In response to Caryn - full post here

I've also encountered this a few times, I find it slightly humorous and slightly bothersome. I mean, as you pointed out, we ought to be skeptical of our own religions, or lack thereof. And as Matt pointed out, people tend to think that one must believe the stories and metaphors to be literal. This, too, I think, is strange because in my opinion, the stories in Genesis and all the miracle stories are not more believable than the stories of the Greek gods. The belief in the stories of the Greek gods is mostly lost in time, but there is reason to think that the same thing may happen to Christianity.

Blog 8 Times A Week? Please, That's Child's play

Today in class we mentioned the story wherein Muhammad pleaded to Allah that he require only 5 prayers per day, rather than fifty. Professor Silliman mentioned in class that this story is intended to show that 5 prayers per day is not very much compared fifty prayers per day. It demonstrates the power of putting things into a different perspective.

I, personally, know full well how this sort of thing can work. We are drawing close to the end of our semester and the number of blog posts that I have done shows it. Last semester I had only one class that I had to blog for and I only had to blog around two times a week, though I blogged closer to three times each week. At that time I thought that completing three substantial blog posts per week was highly impressive, as it required what seemed like a great amount time and work. At the end of last semester, I had complete 33 blog posts. This semester, however, I blog for four classes, three of which require 4 blog posts for an A (16 posts per week). By the end of this week I will have completed at least 216 blog posts (6 times the work of last semester not including my other two classes, or the additional reading for each class). Never again will I think that four or even eight blog posts per week is a lot of work.

Don't Do This, But Seriously, Do This.

One of my cousins posted this online: "Don't waste your time on revenge, those who hurt you will eventually face their own karma." I thought that this was an interesting attitude to take up, as I think that it does not fit into the beliefs of religions that deal with karma, nor does it fit in with my cousins self-identified religion of Christianity. The message of that post is essential "Don't act in revenge, but hope for it because people who hurt you deserve it." I think most religions that hold value to karma would likely say that we should not waste time on revenge or worry about karma and revenge - all we can do is behave well for ourselves. Additionally, I think that Christianity (not based on the historical Jesus), which my cousin follows, would still offer a different message - "Don't waste your time on revenge. We all deserve to punished for all of eternity; but even those who hurt you can be forgiven and will go to heaven and enjoy paradise and happiness." I think that Christianity based on the historical Jesus would say "Don't waste your time on revenge, forgive even those who hurt you."