Food for thought

I have a bunch of chemistry to do, but as we all know, if I have this huge idea that I want to debate with myself, I need to write it before I can concentrate on anything else.

I'm currently in this really interesting public relations class. We talk about news, commercials, advertising and how they affect the people that it's happening to. I like it. But today we started talking about the whole "Chick-Fil-A hates gays" uproar.

I'd just like to walk through my thought process.

Firstly, my thought was good for them. Good for the family who runs it to accept publicly what they believe, regardless of what might happen to them.

Secondly, I became frustrated. I do not see this as a valid reason to quit buying chicken. One, chicken is delicious, two, they're merely stating what they believe.

But then again, Catholics protest Planned Parenthood and other such agencies that make abortion accessible. Is that just as bad? Personally, I don't think so, because a fetus, zygote, etc., is a living person, and I think abortion happens to be murder and therefore acquires the right to be protested heavily. However, Chick-Fil-A did not say they won't serve gays, etc., they basically just said it was ran by a Christian family who upheld the Biblical definition of family and marriage.

After I thought about this, I started thinking about America as a whole and the anti-Christian/anti-conservative feelings in this generation. The first amendment grants us the freedom of religion, which we pretend is still upheld, but I'm really questioning whether or not it is.

Honestly, what is freedom?

Is freedom only granted by laws?

But too many laws generally have a way to contradict freedoms. As history shows.

I'm going to ignore the fact that our religious freedoms are legally infringed due to Obamacare for the time being to illustrate a point.

Legally, you can be what you want. Catholic, Jewish, Methodist, Lutheran, Agnostic, etc. Go for it.

Socially, you can't. It's not cool to tell people you're Christian. In fact, if you're good at being Christian, people generally hate you quite a lot, and call you intolerant, ignorant, what have you.

So the question I came up with is are we really free? Will we ever truly be free without instilling tolerance and love into every single person?

I happen to believe we won't.

I don't think we will ever truly be free.

As long as there are people who think you're crude, intolerant, prudent, or just plain wrong, you will be crushed. And that's not freedom.

I really find this interesting, and I would definitely be up to a civil discussion about this. Comment if you have something to add.


Back to chemistry now,
ChrissyJoy.