Day Sixteen~Write an Argumentive Paragraph

Yes, I know it has been forever, and the post will probably be pretty sparse the next couple weeks, just for a heads up. Things recently, with it being the near the end of my senoir year, have be CRAZY!!!!!!!! Thank you for your patients, my...five...followers.

I believe it is important that we understand the major world views of today. Today's media is very one sided when it comes to world views, and this is indeed a dangerous dilemma. This causes people to assume that everyone who is not a member of their own world view is stupid, in denial, legalistic, and typically depressed. This is caused by people spending all their lives being told one side of something, and this leads them to believe that their beliefs are the most logical and make the most sense, and they have reached that very conclusion because they are so smart and logical. When in all reality, what has happened to them is closer to the process of brain washing.

We will never understand someone fully till we know what he believes. We will never understand a people until we know what a cultural taboos and beliefs drive them. I am very comfortable in saying this, for it is obvious a person's actions are directly related to what he believes. Only a daring few will deny this, and they can typically be argued against by this logic. Why did they stand up? Was it their belief that a person's belief's drive their acting? What other motivations could that person have of denying that proposition? Obviously, most people will not deny such logic, but perhaps I should take more time to understand such people? Maybe then I will see their belief's as logical.

Basically, the actions of a person, or a people, will not make sense till what they believe is understood. The atheist will believe the theist deluded and legalistic, the theist think the atheist brainwashed and evil. The Buddhist and the Moslems will think each other wrong and dark. The absolutes and the non-absolutes will think each other crazy. The Catholic and the Baptist will think each other perversions to what the word of God says.

Of course, the deeper a person goes into someone else's world view, the more sure of his own beliefs he must be if he is to keep them. This is of course a hazard, but a necessary one.

I have attempted to do this. I have studied evolution, and at the moment I am trying to understand the beliefs of both Mormons, and Muslims. I have found my studies to be very revealing, and while I stay true to my Conservative Christian world view, I feel I can now understand why others do what they do.

All in all, I think everyone considered would benefit if the top then world views were taught in schools, by a believer of that world view. This would be especially beneficial to the church. Not only so they could more easily minister to non-believers of Christian world view, but to understand the different denominations within the Christian realm.