Friday, December 10th, 2010
I have been a resident of Southern Illinois for the past 10 years. I have noticed that somehow Southern makes a big front page thing out of things like “Letters to Santa”, “Rocket Stolen ” [in reference to an old personal property rocket that is up on the Giant City Road]. The actual news like, China’s fast trains, experiments on the Big Bang theory, Recycling never make it to the front page, it is hidden , tucked away somewhere. I don’t need a course in Journalism to say that this paper needs better management/judgement to publish a good paper.
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Friday, December 10th, 2010
This is about yesterday’s post in Facebook by The Southern about “Looks like Southern Illinois University Carbondale won’t be chiming Christmas carols from Pulliam Clock Tower any longer out of concern it may make non-Christians on campus uncomfortable. Sensible move or political correctness run amuck?”
When you read the comments people have passed, you realize how close minded the almost the whole community is. There are a few who think and write, but mostly everyone is constantly endorsing Jesus, God, Christianity. If religion did not give them the power to love and live and accept everything in their stride what exactly are they trying to convey or what are they doing by “following ” their religion ? It just shows how this area in general is. Most of the people I bet haven’t stepped out of this place and have no idea what the world is. I am so very surprised that people can comment and say things like if you don’t like it go back to your country, this is a the bible belt???? I thought USA was a country of immigrants, it proclaims itself to be secular, although I feel 90% of its actions show how Christian it is in its attitude. The only advantage is that I can sit and write a blog like this fearlessly. Wake up people, everyday and every season is there to celebrate, we can rejoice in life every single moment, we don’t have to wait for carols to chime or a particular season to drop in. If people are so concerned about their face, their clothes and want it up to date, how come traditions cannot be up to date? Why does that have to remain the same? Traditions remain or will continue only when they absorb changes, not when there is a struggle to keep it the same old. It again comes to the same old topic of mine, why do people follow religion when it holds them back and is like a harness on them? Why don’t people question their own actions? I end my blog entry with this.
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