Cult has already had a negative connotation. I’ve kinda always understood a cult to be a group of people surrounded by one leader, usually a male, who takes advantage of others by manipulation — emotional, mental, financial, and sometimes physically. …

We’ve spent the whole semester learning that it is extremely difficult to define the word religion and what essentially is a religion. We’ve come to the phrase that religion is what people do, and that is a broad statement in of itself. So who are we to determine what is…

Like with Judaism, Islam has often been a target of hate. Remember the Crusades? Most of it comes down to the us vs them mentality. Especially if the number of differences between the two are increasing. At a certain point, it’s not just the difference in religion — it becomes…

People use religion as an excuse for everything. Most commonly and sadly, many people use religion and religious texts to hate and to control people. Judaism is older than Christianity. Not to mention, I believe there has been plenty of research done that indicates that the religious preacher Jesus was…

Reading the Jakobsen and Pelligrini argument about tolerance honestly made me think of the South Park episode named The Death Camp of Tolerance. For those of you who haven’t seen it, it is an episode literally about tolerance. In the episode, Mr. Garrison who is gay learns that if he…

I think that too many people are making the assumption that freedom means free from consequences. That I am free so I can do what want without any repercussions. One of the biggest issues with religious freedom is this, I believe. The thought process that because I am this, and…

Discussing class in the lesson before and sexuality and gender the week before, there is a massive overlap of these things and how they interconnect. I wanted to discuss gender differences within socioeconomic classes. In the wealthy, women are (generally) not expected to work — they are expected to take…

Class is everywhere. Everyone is assigned multiple classes — neat little boxes one can be trapped in. Low socioeconomic classes based on gender, on sexuality, high socioeconomic classes limited by religion and gender, middle socioeconomic classes stuck in a living but not thriving wage with gender based jobs. Cesar Chavez…

As someone who is only half way through a Psychology of Human Sexuality course, I’ve learned a lot about gender. I also liked the way the Philosophy Tube explained it. There are three parts to gender; sex (the biological and physical components), gender expression, and gender identity. The Philosophy Tube…