Danielle's Blog Response

I found Danielle’s blog very informative and interesting. I am very interested in looking at the different views of other religions. I am a Catholic and I hadn’t realized how religious diversity has affected our communities because our own community is not as diverse as others. Religious tolerance is needed everywhere. I find it interesting that religious discrimination exists, but it's not surprising. A picture Danielle used in her project said, “Each new religion that arrives within America faces intolerance by those religions that have established themselves and their supporters in America. These established religions feel that new religions threaten their beliefs and way of life.” I think that this is very true because this intolerance for the minority is not only happening in the areas of religion but also in race, gender, or even if a new person coming into a high school who is different from the normal standards. The main topic of Danielle’s presentation is the religious intolerance for Atheism. According to Danielle, “Religion is the belief of an unseen, powerful entity made everything in the universe…without a single shred of evidence,” while Atheism doesn’t believe that there is another world or greater entity that made life. She expresses that the reason why there is religious intolerance is because neither religion will accept the other and they argue about which belief is true instead of just accepting. In correlation to my presentation, when there is religious intolerance, there is a separation of unity in the country. Religion can be expressed in many different ways and it’s our job as Americans to accept one another to create a united nation. With any problem of discrimination, the religious majority will always have the larger influence on the ideas of the American society, well expressed by Danielle’s presentation. At the end of the presentation, Danielle expresses that there religious tolerance is increasing little by little by showing the clip of Character USA. Once people realize that religion is only an aspect of what defines one’s character, religious tolerance will become easier to increase. I really like how Danielle potrayed this issue in her presentation. It helped me understand alot more about the world in regards to religion which is bigger than us all.