Dinesh D'Souza... Religion

Dinesh D'Souza was born on April 25, 1961 in India. He is a writer and a public speaker. His most recent book, "What's so Great About Christianity?" led to a lot of discussion and debates about religion. In his book, Dinesh tries to proves with facts why religion in still believable with new scientific discoveries occurring. I recommend you watch this video to gain a sense of D'Souza's point of view in one of his debates. 

I found this video very interesting and hard to argue without being bias (which is the only way to go, unless you have proven facts). The questions "where do we come from?" and "where are we going?" are answered by the many religions in the world. The only problem is which one is right. There is no fixed answer to the two questions above, but religions provide answers we can choose to believe in.    In this video D'Souza tries to explain the very controversial issue of religion in his opinion . Even thought he doesn't touch on every aspect of the questions presented, he does a good job in explaining the idea of "suspend[ing] your disbelief until you evaluate something critically."    This I believe is a good point that is merely saying "don't judge a book by its cover." You shouldn't judge something before you  have experienced it. After you experience that specific religion, then you can decide if it fits your worldview or not. 

From this video, we can see that D'Souza  finds  the worldview of an atheist to be illogical.What I find interesting and perhaps controversial is how D'Souza describes an atheist's belief about religion..."There's ten of them (religions) and they can't all be right, so Ill choose none of the above."  I'm not sure I understand exactly why he believes the worldview of an atheist is irrational, but he does bring up some interesting points in this video and perhaps I would like to look at the book he has written to learn more about his opinion. 

Being Normal

This cartoon depicts the one-sided view that these leaders or groups have. I found it very interesting because it says “normal” people. Like many of us have argued, normal does not have an exact definition. Nobody is normal. And if there is such a thing as normal, the boundaries are, for sure, not clearly defined. These leaders took advantage of that and molded the boundaries to fit their standards. In each of these cases the normal was not being a Jew, black, guy or some other group these leaders decided to team up against. Besides taking advantage of the lack of boundaries of the word normal, they also took advantage of the population's want to be normal. The majority of the people want to be normal and fit in. Many of them would do anything to fit in and the leaders knew they would most likely not retaliate because of this. Overall, I like this cartoon because it clearly demonstrates the power these people used to manipulate the simple definition of the word “normal,” into an excuse for their unforgivable actions. It doesn't only display how they were able to manipulate, but how the people were able to be manipulated. This picture reminds of what people would do because of a simple desire to be "normal."