I See You Sinning

The media likes to portray the stereotypical Christian as someone who takes all of the crap that's thrown at them and just says, "Lord bless your soul". Christians are thought of as people who do not, or
at least aren't supposed to, retaliate. I'm not saying that Christians aren't and shouldn't act this way. A lot of Christians do, and should. In addition to the media's projection of the Christian community, there are many movies and TV shows that attack Christians as a whole. Various jokes are made towards Christian beliefs and practices. It's not even just the Christian religion, although that is the main focus of the jokes. The Jewish religion is also being constantly made fun of. Even gays, bisexuals, lesbians, and transgenders are taking a lot of heat from the media. However, you are always hearing about how people are having riots in the streets because they don't agree with who even knows what. The LGBT community is always protesting because some insignificant person openly told them that what they're doing is wrong. Let's be honest, how many times has there been a story on the news titled "CHRISTIANS PROTESTING IN THE STREETS"? Probably not very many times, right? That in no way gives someone the right to make fun of the Christians in the world. Luke 6:31 says, "Do to others as you would have them do to you".

A lot of the heat that Christians take comes from TV shows. One of

those TV shows is the very popular "Family Guy", created by Seth Macfarlane. Macfarlane is very sacrilegious and he is proud of it. He does a very good job showing it with the jokes that he lets into the script of his show. He loves to attack the Christian faith,

particularly in a Christmas episode of the show where a character kicked the baby Jesus out of the manger. Some might see Macfarlane as fearless since he holds nothing back when it comes to making crude jokes. Being a Christian myself, I see Macfarlane as a straight up coward. He knows that Christians will not retaliate when they see their religion being made fun of. Sure they may wag their finger at the screen and say, "Jesus can see you sinning", but they will not go out and protest. That is probably why Seth Macfarlane thinks that he can make joke about the Christian faith and not be worried about being attacked by the majority of society. What many people don't realize is that he is truly being a coward. He doesn't want groups such as the LGBT community and black community to come after him, so he goes after the safest options, Christians. I believe he his afraid, and I know that other fellow Christians would agree with me. I believe that if a Christian were to hear an off-color joke

directed towards their faith, it would be perfectly understandable to get offended. Personally, however, it doesn't bother me and I just let it roll off. The way I see it is that the person who makes the crude joke aimed towards Christians clearly has a butt on their face instead of a mouth because all that comes out is crap. They need Jesus.

Raise The Roof, Not Housing Costs

Number of minimum wage jobs required
to pay rent in areas of San Francisco.

The price of housing costs is rising and falling everyday, with some areas being cheaper than others. The drastic change in housing costs is most commonly occurring in San Francisco and New York. As of 2015, 870,000 of the 78.2 million people who were 16 years old and older that had a job received $7.25 per hour, making up 3.3% of the workers who receive hourly wages. That means that 3.3% is earning at or below minimum wage. But what about the workers who don't receive hourly rates? Yes, 3.3% may not seem like a large amount and it might not seem like a problem, but I believe that it's more of an issue than we realize. Say that one of these workers who earned minimum wage lived in San Francisco by themselves, meaning that they would have to pay for the rent themselves. The cost of living in San Francisco is growing rapidly. If someone simply wanted to rent a place instead of buy a place in San Francisco, they would have to take on more than one, possibly even more, full-time minimum wage jobs. In certain areas of San Francisco, some are required to have at least six or seven minimum wage paying jobs just to be able to pay their rent. That's not even including things such as groceries, clothes, or gas for their car. Yet some people think that this isn't an issue?



 The American in me wants to say that we should raise the minimum wage from about $8.00 per hour to somewhere around $10.00 per hour; however, the more logical side of me is saying that while that may help some people pay for expenses easier, it will just cause problems for other people who make more than minimum wage. The more a person makes, the more taxes they have to pay. The people who make the most money have to pay the most taxes and some of their money goes to the lazy people who just want to lay on the couch all day and have their money basically spoon-fed to them without work. I find myself sometimes guilty of being one of the lazy people who never wants to work, but at least I know when I can be lazy and when I can't be. I don't want to be stuck on welfare my whole life and I don't want a dead end job at McDonald's forever. I want a career so that I'll be able to take care of myself and not be a useless slob who doesn't work and lives in their parent's basement. Also, if the minimum wage is increased by a lot, then I feel like it will cause people to have less of an ambition of getting a real career. They might think, "Oh I can survive on this small minimum wage job, so forget pursuing a career". It's true that there are places where multiple minimum wage paying jobs are required just to survive. But if people are complaining that it's too much for them, then they need to move to a different area. 

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