Sean Taylor Shot

This week’s blog is on the shooting of Sean Taylor. Sean Taylor was shot Monday morning in his Miami, Florida home. Taylor was home this Sunday and Monday resting his football injury he sustained a couple weeks ago. Sean Taylor is the pro bowl safety for the Washington Redskins, and the skins have desperately missed him the last two games of the season. As huge fan of the Redskins I created this blog because that is all I saw on TV today, and I wanted to express my feelings on the situation.

This is a true tragedy that Taylor was shot in his own home in front of his wife. The pro bowler was shot in the leg and groin area. He lost a lot of blood and was unconsious after surgery. I’m sure that the Redskin family is truly upset about this incident. I have been fan of the team for as long as I can remember, and I have watched Taylor play the past four years in Washington. As a fan, I feel like I kind of know him. My prayers are with the Taylor family, and I hope that he is able to fully recover to the football field. He is so young and his potential is endless.

My Enlightenment for the Week

This week in my religion class at Villa Julie College I had one of those break through moments. I had one of those moments where you learn something that you feel you should already have known. This week in religion class I learned that Christmas was actually scheduled around a pagan holiday. The Christmas season was scheduled around this holiday in order to not go against the majority of people who celebrated at this time. This was a new piece of information to me, unless I had completely forgotten about it.

I went to a Catholic high school and middle school, and I felt like I must have fallen asleep all through those years. I would insist that all students take a religion class in college, because so many cultures are affected by religion every day. I don’t even know why my religion’s holidays are scheduled the way they are. What else am I ignorant to? Maybe education is the key to peace in society. If everyone understood more about each other’s cultures then maybe we could actually work things out through actions, other than violence. Maybe feeling completely stupid about my own religion has made me eager to learn, but I feel that I am a better person because of my religion class. Confucius felt that education was the key to a good citizen. Maybe he was right. I learned that in religion class too. Sorry, now I’m just showing off.