http://grittv.org/2009/11/03/learning-from-religion-youth-for-obama-and-bernie-sanders/ Cultivating a Better Conversation Sat, 14 May 2011 01:31:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://grittv.org/2009/11/03/learning-from-religion-youth-for-obama-and-bernie-sanders/comment-page-1/#comment-2067 erichokhold Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:32:53 +0000 http://www.grittv.org/?p=2447#comment-2067 ok so the idea is to understand how religion keeps people coming every week and apply that to popularize voting and social movements. for starters, as a 19 year old living in a small bible belt town in arkansas, i know first hand how true church goers operate. it's simple most people don't attend church to get closer to god, they go to socialize with their friends, let's be honest here. people are geared early by the social atmosphere of school to be around people. once school is done most people start families and go on with their lives. most church goers are just these people trying to stay in touch with that 'we all share the same opinion' sense of togetherness that they got as students in high school. we shouldn't use church nessessarily as a learning tool for getting more people to get behind social movements, rather we should make efforts to 'popularize' the social movement. it's simple human nature, most people are going to do the popular thing that everyone else is doing. now i am not saying church is a bad place full of lairs but we should view this idea from a realistic point of view. god and faith only influence a few, mostly great, people, but a few people aren't going to get a movement started, it's the socially-needy mass that we have to appeal to, now i know that sounds a lot like how fox news and entities of that nature operate but like Kim said we should fight fire with fire. im open to criticism and other points of veiw so please don't be shy.thank you ok so the idea is to understand how religion keeps people coming every week and apply that to popularize voting and social movements. for starters, as a 19 year old living in a small bible belt town in arkansas, i know first hand how true church goers operate. it’s simple most people don’t attend church to get closer to god, they go to socialize with their friends, let’s be honest here. people are geared early by the social atmosphere of school to be around people. once school is done most people start families and go on with their lives. most church goers are just these people trying to stay in touch with that ‘we all share the same opinion’ sense of togetherness that they got as students in high school. we shouldn’t use church nessessarily as a learning tool for getting more people to get behind social movements, rather we should make efforts to ‘popularize’ the social movement. it’s simple human nature, most people are going to do the popular thing that everyone else is doing. now i am not saying church is a bad place full of lairs but we should view this idea from a realistic point of view. god and faith only influence a few, mostly great, people, but a few people aren’t going to get a movement started, it’s the socially-needy mass that we have to appeal to, now i know that sounds a lot like how fox news and entities of that nature operate but like Kim said we should fight fire with fire. im open to criticism and other points of veiw so please don’t be shy.thank you

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