The key topic for this section of our junior faith course is "The Human Condition." The human condition is something that applies to all of mankind throughout the world no matter what race or any different backgrounds. Throughout this section we have talked about what the human condition truly is. What is it that all people throughout the world have in common? Many of the great philosophers throughout history have tried to answer this question. Buddha says that "man is born into suffering" which is one of his first noble truths. Fromm says that we are alone in this world, and will always be alone because of the human tendency to lie. The story of the blind men and the elephant shows us that we can only see part of the truth. In conclusion, the Human Condition is that all humans are ignorant and all men are imperfect.

One of the ideas that I want to remember that I learned this section is the story about Socrates and the Delphi Oracle. When the Oracle was asked if Socrates was the wisest man alive the Oracle responded yes. After hearing this Socrates himself went to the Oracle to try to convince the Oracle that he was not the wisest man alive. When he confronted the Oracle he was told that he truly was the wisest man alive because he knew that he did not know, and he knew that he was still in the cave.

The second thing that I would like to remember about this section is the right speech experiment. During this experiment we were asked for one week to pay attention to our own speech and note every time that we deviated from the truth. Many people in the class were surprised at what they had come to find about themselves. What I really want to remember about this experiment is to always be watchful of what I say, and to try to always stay true to the truth.

The third thing I would like to remember about the second section of the theology course is the PBS special The Truth about Lies. This movie opened my eyes to the fact that the government allot of the time lies. The government is suppose to work for the people, and before this class I had thought that this was true in most cases. After seeing this movie, I saw many great examples of times were the government has lied and done bad things just to protect themselves. I have learned not to blindly trust what the government says, but instead to question everything and think critically about it. Some great examples of when the government has lied would be the Watergate scandal. I now see that I can not put my trust in the government, but rather seek the truth. To do that I must look at everything from all the different angles and take into consideration the fact that people may have hidden agendas.

We talked about this question in class, and it was in the reading. This is problem of evil. The real problem is that we, as humans, can never really know. We can never really know if there is a God, and we can never really know the all the answers. We are only able to take educated guesses for ourselves. I think evil is in this world because we as humans create it. We are given free choice by God and humans have the tendency to do bad things. God may be all powerful and all good, but because he gave us free will we are able to choose to bring evil into this world.