About Me and Sociology

Hi, my name is Brian Roper. There are a lot of things about me that are interesting and a lot of things that are not. I love sports, my favorite teams are the Kentucky Wildcats (from the University of Kentucky), the Seattle Seahawks (NFL), the Seattle Mariners (MLB), and the list goes on. The thing that I am most interested in now though is discovering my family history. I do a lot of genealogy and find all the stories and people interesting. I think it’s pretty important to discover who I am and where I come from.

Sociology is very interesting to me because I’ve always been interested in how the human brain works. My main interest in sociology is the religion aspect of it. It’s always interested me how many religions there are in the world and how many creation myths there are. There are so many different religions and everybody seems to think that there religion is the right one. I’ve always liked the sociology aspect of religion, because I want to learn what sociology says about this.

The image of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (FSM) helps reflect my thinking about the power of sociology in terms of helping us understand the world and our own lives. The FSM shows us that sociology can help us discover why we think the way we do. By this I refer specifically to religion. The FSM can show us the power the sociology has in uncovering how and why humans have so many different religions. The interesting thing being that the FSM seems like a really ridiculous religion but is as legitimate as any other one out there. 

"The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence." - Thomas Henry Huxley

This quote by Thomas Henry Huxley helps reflect my thinking about the power of sociology because the quote references the human mind. The human mind plays a major factor in sociology. The 'evidence' quote helps to understand our world because it tells us that we can't just believe everything that we are told, we have to search for evidence and do investigating to help us understand not only the subject at hand, but also the world and who we are.

--Just a heads up, I don't want anybody to think that I'm out to bash religion, a lot of people think that I try to do that. I'm hoping you, the reader, understands that I'm just discussing religion as being a part of the beliefs and that there are many different religions and many different creation myths in the world. If I continue to discuss religion throughout the blog I will discuss religion as such. Thanks.

--Brian 

Flying Spaghetti Monster image: http://s3-2.kiva.org/img/w800/196261.jpg

Thomas Henry Huxley. "Thomas Henry Huxley Quotes" Retrieved from http://iperceptive.com/authors/thomas_henry_huxley_quotes.html