My war on Logic

For some reason I am sure you all believe me when I say that I seriously do not try to get religion as my topic of choice. However; there was a NiteLine episode tonight about a group called "BattleCry". I really believe that religion provides a great purpose for the general public. My issue is that when these groups then use their religious beliefs to attack another group of people. I believe that almost all religions primary belief is about treating people good. However; based on books that were written at least 1000 or more years depending on the religion. I really don't believe in most religious idea's. However I do respect religion because I believe it installs great moral fiber in people. However I great really pissed at the group of people when they take religion and choose to use it to attack their own personal issues and weakness. If they truly believe in God loves everyone based on their books then why can't God also loves gays even though the book mentions against it in Leviticus which was old testinmate. Yet all as far as I know being gay is not a jewish issue only a christian thing. My understanding is that Jesus provided a new covenant for the people. His main message was that everyone can be loved. I think he was speaking against these old Leviticus laws but somehow modern day fundamentalists still seem to use the old testament as their claim for gods spoken word yet the whole book was supposed to be changed based on Jesus claims in the new testament.

Just the first site I found when I googled "battlecry religion"
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20060511_battle_cry_theocracy/

Labels: religion

Carol Burnett is sueing Fox over a parody of Burnetts cleaning lady character from her show. I guess the issue is that the cleaning lady is cleaning up a porn shop. I remember the scene and it did not last very long and wasn't that bad of a scene. This is the first time I have heard of Family Guy getting sued. I am kind of suprised since I figured that with the way they make fun of everyone they would get sued all the time.

Two quick things.
First how do I get on the show 1vs100. I think I can do really well.

Second, who agree's that Lost Boys is the best vampire movie ever. Its been a while since I seen it but I think its just the bee's knees.

In class tonight the teach mentioned something in passing that totally caught my mind. If you have not heard of the biblical story of the tower of babel, let me fill you in a built. I am not a biblical scholar so I am going to give you the gist I remember from high school.
Prior to the story everyone in the world spoke the same language. The tower of babel was built to try to reach God. Either that or it was to be built to show they could build a building to heaven. Either way my understanding is that God punished them because for their attempt to reach its greatness. The punishment was that every person their would no longer be able to understand each other through language. Thus giving a reason for the numerous languages spread across the earth.

Do I have a point you may ask? I do. The teach mentioned a language called Esperanto. I have not read the full article yet. However like the tower of babel story I believe I get the gist.
Ludvic Lazarus Zamenhof goal of creating Esperanto was that no country or people of the world would willingly give up their own language for another countries language. Based on that he sought to create a whole new language so that maybe everyone could just move towards this.
I will say that I really like this idea and plan on ready more on this. It could end up being my future goal in life to spread the knowledge and see if people of our generation or the next could eventually adapt this as or something similiar as their global language. I believe getting people to all speak the same language would help solve numerous issues in this world.

We can all help.