Peace out of Passion

At the current time we have an opportunity to move closer to world peace. We have an opportunity to bring the Christian and Islam nation closer to peace. However there is a current threat to that accomplishment.

In Florida there is a pastor named Terry Jones, who is planning on burning Qurans on 9/11. Now the ideal reaction would be to just let it go, and ignore him. However now that he has obtained publicity, the middle east muslim community has gotten word of it. Now the violent crusaders of Islam will not have the same reaction that we as Americans will have. To them it describes the whole American race. Now if the reaction of the violent muslims was to just let it go or be angry, but not to react in anger, I would say we wouldn't need to have a big reaction.

However, according to Islam leaders, these violent muslims will not react with peace, they will react with anger and violence. They will MURDER our soldiers, and KILL Americans.

I do not feel we have the time to wait and see what happens. We must pray that Terry Jones does not go through with this action, and that God soften his heart. We must insert peace into society. We must show the world we our not a nation of aggression, despite our past. We must show the world that we want to create peace in our world. I vote for peace and the idea that we can have hope that world peace is something to try hard to obtain.

I do not want the perceived motives of The United States to be put out from a small outlandish stunt. I am all about freedom of expression, but when that expression directly leads to violence against Americans, I have a big problem.

Our reaction to Terry Jones should be as this: "You are grumpy, may your heart be softened"

I do not vote for violence to Jones, I vote for nonviolence on both times. May we indoctrinate peace into the world by prayer and signs. If we must put peace signs all over the world then we must. I do not know what stops us. Lets us this as an excuse to be peace. Lets use this chance to show that we care about others feelings.

Mosque at Ground Zero

Before I start I would just like us to open our minds, and let go the idea that all muslims want The U.S to fall. That is an inaccurate claim, and muslims say that the U.S. is the best place to be muslim. In order to fully understand the situation, and make a conscious decision we must put ourselves in the shoes of Islam.

Lets pretend that instead of the outlandish Muslim group that ran the planes in to the towers, the individuals were a group of christians. I know this seems like a rather outlandish scenario, but just hang around with me for a little bit. If an occurrence like 911 happened with a Christian group, what type of response would the church have? I believe it would be something of great similarity to what Islam is trying to do with 911. We would ask if we could build a church where the violent act happened. We would want to build a place of what we know as worship and peace to bring order to a crazed situation.

So when I look at the situation from a Muslim perspective the idea isn't to proclaim my religion or discredit lives lost, it is simply to create peace, make things right, and try to create good relations among the United States to say we are not a religion that promotes violence amongst our followers.

Now the idea of building a Mosque instead of a Memorial makes it seem as though, the mosque will not remind people of the people that lost their lives. However i don't imagine that this will be just some cookie cutter mosque. I imagine it will have a memorial essence to it. A mosque built for memory of the lost, and to remember that we are to bring peace to the world, not violence.

I personally like the idea. I think this mosque is the start of solving the problem of religious tension that people never deal with. It is beginning the process of reconciling the hurt suffered from religion and making it right so that we can all get along.

Philosophy

I have always been a science and Universe philosophy kind of person, and growing up in a nazarene church I haven't had as much opportunity to discuss my views and thoughts as much as i would have like. I watch all these Universe shows on the history channel read science books. I have had to attempt to put everything together myself. I have put a lot of thought into my theories and I have found that I wasn't that far off. My last talk about religion I think came off kind of anti bible and anti church, but that isn't what I was trying to say. I was simply trying to put a different spin and perspective on the way we look at sin to allow us not to feel guilt and depression over them.

Finally at college I am finding the support in my theories that I have desperately needed. Until I came here I was semi-leading on my on gamble that my theories on the world, universe, God were more than just compilations of a rambling intellect. I wanted to know that I wasn't a wahoo with his head in the clouds. And I have found exactly what I was looking for here. And here it is. I have always thought this, its just I need some help putting in words, and today it was.

In order for there to be something (us, the world, whatever else is here) there would have to be infinitely something. There can't be infinitely nothing, because then there would be nothing and therefore nothing could be. In order for us to be here, there has to be infinitely something.