Blog Post #3

I have never felt that I hold biases against any religions because I of my own religion. I am a Unitist. It isn't a well known division of Christianity but essentially, the way I interpret the views, the teachings are this: 1.Everyone should strive to do good things in their life, 2.Heaven is the only after life and you get there by following the beliefs of whatever religion you ascribe to and/or by being a good person, 3.Hell is an environment created when you allow the problems of the world to affect you negatively or when you do bad things, 4.Each person describes god as they need. There is one god described by different religions in different ways. Each part of the world was affected by god in a different way at the same time because god is everywhere and anywhere at the same time. As long as each person follows there own belief in god, they will get to heaven just as everyone else.

With those beliefs, it is hard to see the problem with any religion. I am obviously against Muslims bombing people and wars over religion as I still believe that everyone should believe what they need to in order to make their life on earth bearable.  I feel that this will be a great asset to me going into an educational setting because I have learned my whole life to be tolerant of other religions and to ask questions to see why they believe what they do. I believe that I could even be a good advocate for students having issues with religions and their teachers because I understand the need to believe what you feel is true.

As far as gender goes, I feel that I have slightly less problems than I do with race. I have always had many friends who are women and have never felt that women were not as good as men. That being said, I am very oblivious to the problems that women face because I don't perpetuate them and my female friends don't want to tell me because I am still a man regardless of if I am a friend. I wholeheartedly believe that payment should be gender-blind and that  women should have equal access to jobs as men. One way to accomplish this could be through blind interviews where the interviewer and the interviewee chat over social media or Google+. I know that it destroys the personal feel that an interview usually has but it might show employers that there are capable women they haven't been giving a chance.

It makes me sad to know that I have very little power to fix the gender bias of the world. I can do my part and try to convince others but until my generation of people takes over the executive and government positions there won't be that much real change. People learn biases over time and the people in charge lived in a time when women were never allowed to work let alone be equal to men. We may simply have to do the best we can until that mentality is removed from power.