“ So what can a lowly blogger/nerd teach you about politics? (probably no more than a monkey can teach you about evolution, but I'll give it a shot anyways.) So let's start with one of the most heated and highly debated topics around: Racism. Why start here? well because its as I said, the most debated, heated, and complex topic around, yet it is the simplest to explain, and exile from existence. Let me begin by taking you backwards to the time of Fred, Barney, and Wilma our local cave people, now let's say Fred and Barney are on their way to church(separate churches for the purposes of this piece.) their conversation on that walk to church would probably resemble this: Fred: "Hey Barney, old chum where you off to?" Barney: "Oh hey Fred I'm off to the church of the Stegosaurus, and you good pal where you off to?" Fred: "I'm off to T-Rex-- What church of Stegosaurus??? T-Rex Temple is waaaaaaaaay better." Barney: "No Stegosaurus is better!!!" At this point they'd pull out their clubs and bash each other to death....or so we thought During the Fight Fred: "Hey food!!!" Barney: "Let's go get that dinosaur, I'm starved!!" Now the two stop fighting and overcome differences for a greater cause...... SURVIVAL!!My point is, is that we can do the same and should, and that the only reason that differences cause societal schisms is because only now are we "smart enough' to consider them negative differences and attach to them a negative(and quite destructive) "consequence" that we call Religious Differences/war.You may be asking, duh what can I do boss??? well its quite simple don't qualify a friendship that you've had for twenty-years as dead because your friend's a Catholic and your a Jew, don't exit stage left on something that may very well be the Best thing in your life at the moment just because a book written/interpreted by someone who may very well be your friend's Great(x800)uncle. Hell if I'd done that I'd be all alone right now and forever (sniffs, I love you couch.)Well until next week, Read chapters 1-4 in your textbook. Signing-Off The RantistLabels: all, lessons, opinion, politics, rant, religion ”