Week 2 Blog Reviews

Group 2 Blog Reviews

Kayla Smith

While reading your “Do You Need God to Be Good” post, I couldn’t help but agree with you about how our society is quickly to judge based off of stereotypes. My view is pretty much the same as yours – I believe that we can be good without God because of our own individual morals. Actions do matter the most in the end compared to ideas and that’s what breaks the stereotype of say, an atheist. The thoughts in an atheist’s mind might be different from a devout Christian, but the most important thing to consider is that just because they do not believe in a God does not mean they would follow through with the action of stealing.

I also agree with you on your other post about “The Individual Self.” The two classrooms do differ mostly because of the lack of the face to face action. We cannot judge someone the same exact way in both classroom settings because we are presented certain things in different ways.

Overall, your posts were very interesting to read, but I did think that they lacked a bit of length. I never thought I'd say this for a class, but I want to read more!! I also look forward to reading some more of your posts! :)

Jessica Tavizon

Your post “Yes, We Can!” brought me a lot of different insight on the concept of “Can We Be Good Without God?” Growing up in a pretty religious family myself, I do seem to have the bias thinking that people who do not attend church regularly generally live “bad lifestyles.” But when doing this assignment, I did not stop to think that different people might have different definitions and perceptions of “good.” But in the end, we all do have different backgrounds and morals – so yes, we can be good without God!

I really enjoyed reading your “My ‘Self’” post. Your intro paragraph was very interesting and definitely caught my attention. I never really thought about it, but we really do change how we interact with customers at work, or how we answer the phone. At my work, I could be having the most horrible day, but the customer would not know that because of my “fake” smile and cheerful voice. Whenever I do answer the phone, I change my voice to be friendly and inviting. Besides all of that, talking with friends, or in class I act pretty much “normal.” I don’t have to change my voice, wording of sentences, or watch my actions carefully like I do at work. I feel like we all can agree on that – which is what really opened up my eyes.

Good job! I look forward to reading some more of your posts!

Unfortunately, Erin Lyng did not have any assignments posted for me to read.