Two Things

I have two things to talk about today.  One is something I was thinking about in one of my classes today.  Since that is a more serious topic and I try to keep this blog a little lighter and somewhat funny, I will tell a slightly embarrassing story so I stick to my goal, which is to make people smile.

First, what I was thinking about in class.  It is a class called "Capstone" where we discuss issues from real life.  It's designed to get people thinking about viewpoint aside from their own and develop an opinion based off of research rather than what we've heard or how we feel.  It's pretty interesting sometimes, but a little tense too, because we are presented with topics such as gay marriage or illegal immigration or leaving a relationship for whatever reason.  It gives you case studies where you are supposed to put yourself into the position of someone and decide what you would do if you were them.  All the cases are designed so there is not one right or wrong answer.

When we discussed the case on illegal immigration the topic of racism came up.  Everyone kept going on and on about how we view people of a different race different and how wrong that is, because we should all be equal.  I disagreed.  I feel like differences should be celebrated.  Then today we were discussing gay or lesbian lifestyles.  This was an interesting topic since I go to a religious school.  The longer I am in this class, the more annoyed I get with the people in my class.  At work tonight I was trying to figure out what was bothering me.  I realized this:  People are constantly talking about how "we judge that  person, because he is gay and that's against our religion" or "we hate such-and-such race of people, because we notice they are different."  The thought keeps coming to me that people only hate each other if they are looking for something that is wrong with them.  We are afraid of the unknown, so when someone is different we treat them different.  It's a natural instinct.  I don't think it's fair, though, to say all Christians are being any more judgmental than someone who isn't Christian.  We just judge differently.  We were taught different beliefs, and naturally will use those when we are making decisions.  Of course there are some Christians who automatically will dislike someone when they find out they are gay, or will judge someone for getting an abortion as a murderer.  That doesn't mean all of them are like that.  I feel like I am kind to everyone whether they are homeless, gay, straight, black, white, married, single, mentally challenged, etc.   People simply have to choose to be kind to each other and respect each other and so many problems in this worl would be gone.

That is the end of my rant.  Now let's talk about how I was running out to my car the other night and tried sticking the key in the lock with a bit of trouble.  It would only go halfway in, much to my confusion.  I then realized there was an unfamiliar sticker on the window.  This was not my car!  I looked around me to make sure no one saw me unintentionally trying to break into someone else's car, ran two more spaces down the lot, and got into my own car.  Phew, no one saw me...