Thursday, February 26, 2009

I have finally visited my cultural site after much debate on whether or not I could continue with the my original topic of the homeless.  I was unable to and now and pursuing the Christian Religion and people who practice it.  After I spent time at my cultural site, which was at a local church in a rural farm community I had a lot to think about when looking over my field notes.  The benefits that I have gotten from my research are monumental, sitting there listening to the sermon and Deccan's of the church speak to the congregation is quite comical.  As I sat there listening and taking notes of both the sermon and people around me I kept finding myself laughing a bit to myself.  People were listening so intently to the Deccan's of the church and they all were nothing more than old farmers spilling their guts about what the lord has said to them and why we should listen.  So what do I plan on giving back to my community......?  Hopefully the awareness that someone who has to use religion have a hole somewhere and in order to fulfill the hole they turn to religion.  It sounded like the community church that I was at needs some good medical care or better doctors, it seemed like most prayers and prayer requests were directly related to peoples health.  So why not pray to our doctors instead of "God."  They seemed to actually have the answers......why not use of offering money to go towards a medical charity.  My only contribution is to inform these people and figure out why someone needs to turn to religion.

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