Mahzarin i thought, started out very cold by saying that one less religion in this world is one less thing to deal with. Actually she does make a point because every religion that is present here on earth, trying for people join their "cult" makes it more complicated for those that just want to believe in whatever they want without the need of help from a group or others. I think that there is no need to be a member in any religion. Even if i did believe in God as a super powerful human being, i don't think just because i was not involved with a group that does events that are just a wasteful time, he would hate me and not love me or except me into his "wonderful kingdom". Is there one? What i liked about this speaker was that she involved the audience in her exercises which were quite fun and interesting. So easy to do them but to know that we are completing them using our bias mentality because that is what we are use to categorizing my sex and professions. I like the way she uses these kind of exercises rather than surveys, because as she said surveys suck. They just take a certain number of society and question them and base that percentage as if it were based on every single person.
Richard Dawkins according to this session, was one of my favorite speakers because he talked about genes and natural selection. He kept referring back to Darwin's term of natural selection and how the things we have now, have been perfected within the last years due to changes and mutations. One thing that he ponited out was the beginning of his speech. the picture of the kids in a play labeled with they name , age and religion. I would of never noticed he would of never pointed out that it is kind of child abuse. To label a human being without giving them time to go out there and explore their decisions, they are labeled with their parents religion. Not just that, but why even label these kids? I know that when they are young they cannot do much for themselves and need most of the help from parents, but to declare their religion without them choosing it already at the age of 4 is completely wrong. I thank him for showing that because it really opened my eyes in some kind of weird way. Other than talking about genes and morality, it bothered me when he was reading Lincoln's testament. To know that one former president of the US said that he prefers for the white race to be one day superior and to never change from that way, just brings thoughts of how bad could it have been back in those days? must of been filled with racism and sadness to those who were not white.
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