Chapter 7,8 and 10

I know I wrote about this on the test but reading again on Page 212 of our text about a new dynasties using Confucianism in relation to how they run their government and in a time with such a crazy election, it just makes me frustrated with some of the candidates arrogance. They all say things and when the election comes and the  candidate wins, a lot of the things they promise to do, don’t happen.  I love what JFK said, "Let us not seek the republican or democratic answer, but the right answer."  Sometimes the Democratic and Republican parties seem so silly to me.  I grew up in a Republican, right-winged, Christian home and so before I moved to the bay area, I voted for republican candidates.  Now that I am more aware of politics and am a Human Services major and do feel like I relate more to that party. The truth is it's all hard to understand and I need to do more research. 

In Chapter 8, we learn about the Censtate which is like a checks and balances system.  There were 8 aspects to the government and this department was there just to ensure that these departments were ethical and functioning as they should.  I believe our government has three parts and they are all supposed to balance each other out.  The House of Represntatives, the Senate and of course the president.  I often say how the I'm an antagonist but when I think of our government, I think corruption.  Well, that's the first thing I think of at least.

In reading Chapter 10, I was shocked that the U.S. is no longer the largest when it comes to the Christian religion than other religions.  Like I stated before, I was raised  in the Christian and page 325 sites how there was an "intolerance of other religions".  I was raised this way.  When I took world religions with Delaporte, I was actually nervous.  I loved how it taught me tolerance and acceptance and you really do see a common ground.  Religious or spiritual people, we are all looking for the primarily the same thing. And having put myself in other religions shoes, like what if I were raised Hindu, Islam or Buddhist?  I would believe my religion was the right one and might dislike Christianity.  Who's to say who is right or wrong.  And I thought if there is a God who sees over the universe, maybe he appeared to other countries/people in different ways?  If so, how could our feeble minds begin to comprehend such a being?  I think most of us are clueless.  Nonetheless, I am no longer biased about religion.