Independent Reading Entry; Le Social Issue.

Well, I have choosen a book that is kind of THE book to read if you want to see some social justice. Persepolis is an entry writer's dream, and the authors nightmare. It tells the story of a young girl living in Iran throughout a tumultuous time period.  It goes from tyranny to revolution to tyrany.

I think one of the main problem is people misinterpreting justice. They have some twisted way of thinking, mainly because of religion. They beat women because they are not wearing a viel. They throw people in jail becauase the they oppose the tyrannical rule. Ans the worst part is they think they are right!

Religion has a history of hindering social justice. In the past (and present) they are everything but just. Centuries ago the church was the big boss in town. In spain, they tortured people because they were not christian. There were many crusades to get rid of other religions, mainly islam, which were costly and unfounded. The worst incident was a crusade in spain. The Catholics were besieging a city. When asked who to spare a preist responded "Kill them all. God will know his own." And in the modern day, extremists are using the Koran as an excuse to attack innocent people.

I don't know how social justice can survive with religions. Each religion has its own set of sick justices that are out dated. But how can we convince people that the bible is wrong? That if we were still fooloowing it word for word, society would be back in the dark ages!

We can't really. Preists molest children without retrubution. In islamic countries they still sonte people to death. All the advances in social justice that we've made (civil rights, voting rights, free speech) are being destroyed. Now I am jewish. I go to sinoguoge and what not. I don'tthink that religion is always a bad thing. Yet when people take it to extreme meausures, bad things happen. We have to teach people to believe in modern social justice, AND religion./ This will be a difficult task indeed.