BLOG #6

Patrick Sanderson

February 26, 2012

Blog #6

            I really have been struggling to write this blog. I usually have no problem thinking of things to respond to your topic but this week is different. I don’t really think I can compare myself to Ignatius Loyola. There are definitely a few things that we have in common but not enough for me to type out a good blog.

            So instead I went back to last weeks (two weeks ago actually) topic. I watched the Why I hate Religion video and watched the Muslim version. I thought it was great and just as good, if not better, than the Christian version. The guy said so many things that really made me think. I guess I’m still on the fence about a lot of things. Now more than ever I have been contemplating my faith and really trying to find out what I truly believe.

            I think that it’s very possible that worshipping Jesus is a man made creation that was never Jesus’ intention. Worshipping the cross also seems to be a bit ironic too if you think about it. In the video he brings up this point and it makes a lot of sense what he says. Would you worship an axe if it were used to chop up your mother into little pieces? That’s a little graphic but no, I wouldn’t.

            I learned a lot about Islam last semester in World Religions. I went to a Mosque and wrote a reflection paper on it. I really enjoyed it and the more I learned about it the more I came to respect it. I like that the Quran has never been changed. I think that is a flaw with Christianity that so many different people have written in our Bible. How do we know that all of these men were legitimate? It’s easy to believe that at least one of them was corrupt. Its also a little odd that Bishops were allowed to pick what they believed was important enough to make the final cut of getting put into the Bible before it was first printed.

            I don’t want to believe that we’re putting our faith into something that isn’t fully true but I feel that it is important to question things like this. It would be naive to just go through life believing all these things just because we’re told its true. I’m going to continue questioning my faith and hopefully at some point in my life I will start to come up with answers.

This is the Muslim version of the YouTube religion video. CLICK IT!