Sophie’s World – 2

     In the novel Sophie's World there is a chapter entitled "Two Cultures",  the chapter discuses the culture background of two major types of religions, Indo-European and Semitic.  Within this chapter there is a section entitled Jesus, of course this section talks about really just Jesus but it raises so me interesting points.  Such as the fact that Jesus was executed for appealing to peoples sens of reason in trying to have them change their ways and adopt unconditional love.  That didn't go to well for him.  But this seems to almost be a trend throughout history, just like the cyclical belief in some Indo-European religions, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. tried to advocate unconditional love through peace and he was assassinated, the same thing happened to Gandhi when he tried to advocate equality.  Out apparent trend seems to be that someone stands up for what is peaceful, fair, just, or equal and is smothered, sometimes most brutally that others.  This battle between change and stability has circled around this controversial trend for most of recorded history, yet nothing has changed.  It seems so strange that a call of peace and equality is so often retaliated upon by violence and oppression.  But, it all seems to come back to that central idea against change and for change.  Unfortunately it seems some people, in my opinion, want only drastic change (or see things only in black and white where you can only have the drastic options) and others seem to want no change at all, which is absurd because if life doesn't change nothing can ever get better and the rest of the world will leave up behind.