Blog Post #1

Honestly, after reading the first side of the argument in the book I was uninterested in the topic (and a little confused as to why I was even reading it). I found the article to be dry, verbose and underdeveloped. Cut out the bombast and you’re left with just a few starving paragraphs.  Despite my disinterested and negative attitude, I continued on to the other side of the argument. The author initially caught my attention by whipping out Christianity from the get go. I braced myself as the patronizing blows of a judgment rained down. Who is the author to define “the gospel of globalization” and the Gospel of Jesus Christ as completely contradictory ideologies? Thank God God is God and the author is not. Did not Christ himself support globalization to a certain extent when he commanded his disciples to go forth and preach? Without globalization and the exchange of ideas, would the author even be Christian?  Would any of us? Would Christianity have expanded as thoroughly as it has? It is impossible to know, and it is best not to dwell on hypothetical situations.  However, as a Christian, and more specifically a believer in the restored gospel of Jesus Christ taught by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, I can say that I am thankful for Globalization. The most influential and important aspect of my life, my religion, has reached me indirectly through globalization. Missionaries from the United States traveled to northern Europe generations ago and carried with them the message of this gospel. My family accepted the message and came to the United States. Without the integration and interaction of two separate communities, missionaries would not have found my ancestors and shared the gospel with them and my life would be vastly different.

P.S. I’m not as cynical as this writing makes me out to be. I was just messing around and making things interesting for myself.