| Saturday, April 8, 2006 |
| This Annoys me a Little [LJ Repost] |
*part of a series of posts I am cross-posting. I'm finally within the MySpace timeline, which means these posts will be dated the actual date/time they were originally posted*
http://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/story?id=1810169&page=1Not so much for the concept, but because in college I had to write a paper on who in Dante's inferno didn't belong in their circle of hell. I chose Judas, stating while he should still be in hell, he possibly should have been in a higher circle (I suggested Suicides). I backed it up with a lot of arguments and what I thought to be a well researched and argued paper (since I used to be pretty good at debating when I wrote, as far as providing answers which would rule out all possible arguments). So imagine my surprise when the guy teaching the class gave me a "D" on the paper, basically because he was a holy roller and I dared to question what was set down in stone in the Bible. So yeah basically, if you don't want your religious beliefs put into question, why even assign a paper like that. It was like he was looking for a reason to fail people, because up to that point almost everyone in that class had an A because the guy was normally so easy. So of course now I see this article about Judas, and how they're putting into question whether his sin is redeemable, using many of the same arguments I used so many years ago on that paper.. and to say the least I am bitter. Too bad I don't still have it saved somewhere, I should go back to that asshole with the news copy and my paper and make him re-grade it.Oh yeah and don't flame me religious folk. I have no problem with any religion other than the concept of "blind faith" in everything that makes people not see that someone else can have a different opinion on something. But it's not just religion, it's anything.. so I'm not being blasphemous it wouldn't matter what subject it was, if you take such a hard line on anything that you won't even listen to someone else's opinion especially if you don't agree with it, then I would have an issue with that. |
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