History #1

So what if "winners" wrote history.  If a person who was iliterate would you believe them if they wrote history?  People who were considered "winners" had been taught how to write, grammar, and everything.  So if they recorded history, wouldn't they be more accurate.  I would not believe a text that was written by a iliterate person because they might write something down and could be interpreted in a differnt way and we wouldn't get the facts straight.  To me, I think it depends on how well the person knew how to write than their social status.
The disciples that wrote the Bible were not necesarrily "winners" unless you call them "winners" for winning people for Christ.  The disciples had decent jobs but also in the end they were all killed except for one.  They all left their possessions to follow Christ.   After Christ died they went back to their old jobs until Christ rose from the grave and told them to go into the world and preach the Gospel.  The men were tortured and killed for their faith.  Would you call that winning?  They all wrote parts of the New Testament. 
Alexander the Great won many victories but also lost as well.  King David also won many battles but lost some as well.  Everyone is wins and loses at times.  So the word "winner" wouldn't matter.  It wouldn't apply to the people who wrote history, would it?

Economics #2

I believe that we are broke because as a country we are in serious debt.  We keep borrowing and spending the money.  I think that the problem is being lazy.  Sharing money or making everything equal will not work.  If every job gets the same amount of money than who would be willing to get up in the morning and work for so many hours a day and get paid the same amount of money as a low paid job?  I wouldn't beause to me that would not be fair.  One reason that we are in debt is because we are lazy people and we do not know how to spend the money properly.  Anyways, socialism would not work because no one would really work hard at their jobs if they are all getting the same paycheck.  Everyone would become more lazy than before.

Economics # 1

  I do not mean to attack him, but the first the I noticed was that he mixed up the faiths or world views.  Marxism and Secular humanism are pretty mucht he same.  They want the oppressed to become oppressors and the  oppressors to become oppressed.  Cosmic Humanism is the world view of hopping that everyone will focus on reaching their highest inner being and than there is no need for economy.  My point is, they are all not the same.
   Mr. Moore said that the people should be able to run the economy.  Everyone has many ideas and ideas have consequences.  I agree that economy should some how be split even but that will be tricky and probabaly impossible.  I also agree that we should have a say or our voices should be heard.  He said that we should ask, is it for the common good and is good for the people?  People have different ideas for what is common good and what is good for the people. A lot of people, if not everyone, will have a say and we will have hard agreeing on something.  How will agree on something if we all have different ideas and needs? 

Secular Government

If a secular government is in rule, they would try to make everyone submit to a universal government. That means every culture and nation and religion would have to abide by the same rules or laws, but the rules, however, will be difficult to make because every culutre would want to have the laws to favor their religion or nation.  Than an uproar of how the laws should be made and who should make the laws will be controversal.  There might be a lot of laws to make everyone happy.  This type of government would try to rule out religion.  It is pretty much like a communistic government.  Instead of creating peace, this type of government will creat chaos. 

Abortion

I choose the 2nd topic or statement.

2.) Teenagers who become mothers have grim prospects for the future. They are much more likely to leave of school; receive inadequate prenatal care; rely on public assistance to raise a child; develop health problems; or end up divorced.

From a Christian perspective, teenagers should not have sexual intercouse unless they are married.  Teenagers want to get pregnant and do get pregnant which is there choice, however they suffer from consequences such as balancing or giving up school, parent accountablility, and so on.  First of all, a teenager and can wait to have child when they are more mature and out of high school.  That way they are some what prepared, have a better chance of getting into college in the futre, and can get a job.  I guess, my question is, why do teenagers want to have a child?  Do they think that is cool, or grown up thing?  It's takes a lot of responsibilty and planning.  Not to sound rude, but most teenage mothers ruin their chance of college because they drop out of high school (some mothers might be able to balance school and their kid and be successful).  Because some teenage mothers try to balance out everything, they get stressed and unhealthy habits begin to form.  Or during the pregnancy they drink, do drugs, or other harmful actions that hurt them and the baby.  Not only that they are not being "fair" to the rest of the community.  Also most teenagers that get married in their earlie teens, are most likely going to get a divorece.  I have no statistics about that, but that's what I heard.

Some teenagers get raped and do not know what to do.  From a Christian perspective, they should carry the baby and give her/him up for adoption.  Some women feel shame if they have an abortion because they killed and innocent huma being.  Some teenagers have an abortion because they do not know that the living organism that is growing is  a human being. 

Overall, in a Christian perspective, teenagers should wait to get married.  They should think about thier decsions and why they want to do what they want to do.  They need to think about the pros and cons and the struggels and the posistives.

Law 4

Equlaity means, sameness or everyone deserves the same amount of praise or reward.  Also, no one should not be treated differently because they might be rich, poor, have a disablity or no disabiltiy.  But the word "treated" could mean differently.  What I mean is, a person who has a mental disablitity would be "treated" differently in order to help him/her get through school and life, but should still be respected.  Samething with for a person who has physical disablitiy.  Justice should be done to those who have committed crimes.  Victums of crimes should be given justice.

Christians should justify according to the Bible.  We should help those in need and not to justifie according to our own standards, but God's standards and what God says.  Also go the law that governs us and see what they have to say.  God was and is the ultimate Law giver and Soverginty and there is a reason why God put in charge men and women to govern citizens.  Our jobs as citizens are to follow the laws given to us and based on the laws "justify" what is right and wrong.  From the Bible and our own morals we know what is right and wrong, but we are too also follow the laws given to us.  Justice for us to take care of those who have been wronged.  In the end, God will send judgement to those who have committed evil and have not repented of that evil.  When some one wrongs us, we are to still love them but we can also try to help correct them.  We are to forgive and love them just as the Lord has forgiven and loves us.  We define justice through God, the Bible, and the law that governs society.

Law 3

The difference between the Islamic Law and God's Law is that the Islmaic Law is sovergin over every point of a lifestyle.  For example, woman have wear clothing that covers every part of thier body, they have to pray at a certain time of day in a precise direction.  Their god, Allah, is unpredictable and therefore sometimes "his" laws are not always precise.  There might be thousands of laws that they never heard of and they might fall into hell.  

God's Law wants us to have a different lifestyle than our old one, but He is not picky about what we wear as long as it is modest.  God doesn't tell us what time of day and direction we have to pray to Him.  God wants us to talk to Him, but He won't send us to Hell for not talking to Him.  God's Law is precise and direct.