Loving God And Loving Our Country Analysis
Loving God and Loving our Country - Vincent Bacote
Vincent is a professor at Wheaton College who came to speak for chapel as one of our keynote speakers. He had five main points regarding “America the Beautiful?” and some aspects of loving God and loving our country.
His first point was that we can we can recover or discover. Vincent drew from a passage in Psalms and Genesis to support his point of the “first” great commission. That is, that we are called as sons and daughters of Adam and Eve to be good stewards. He made the point that when we refer to someone as a good or bad rulers/leaders, we are referring to their stewardship of people and resources under their influence.
Dr. Bacote’s second point was that you should pray for your country, …show more content…
Weakland went through a summary of the history of the United States of America, covering points where America was beautiful, and not so beautiful.
She started with Pre-Colonial America and the Native Americans, stating that they were not in “perfect harmony” with the environment as some people have depicted them to be. They still had to clear forest to build communities and such. But they had a value system that promoted the communal use of land and its inherent sacredness, leading them to be less likely to strip the land completely of its resources. Additionally, the population density of the Native Americans was much lower, an estimated 18 million in prior to the mass death from disease brought by colonization. So this version of America was less abused, but still not …show more content…
When only two candidates are involved, there is only one way to count, but when there are more you can choose a variety of methods. The more candidates that are involved the harder it is to determine who the “real” winner is. The “normal” method in the United States is to vote for a single candidate and take the “absolute” winner out of the group of candidates. Dr. Hawthorne introduced a few other methods and showed how in a group of multiple candidates, the way you count matters. The first method Jeralynne talked about was the Plurality method. In the plurality method, the candidate with the highest percentage of votes wins the election. This leads to some scary statistics, where the majority of the population did not vote for the winning candidate and may have wanted someone else in the office. In Maine, for example, 6 out of the last 7 governor elections have been won with less than fifty percent of the vote. In addition, the difference between the winner and the second place candidate was often less than 1%. There are some obvious problems with this method. Some examples of where it gets sticky is the in the Bush versus Gore where there was a 1700 vote difference in Florida, leading to Bush’s victory. Trump only won Michigan by 0.3% of the votes, when 4.7% voted third party. Basically, the third party vote could significantly
Vincent is a professor at Wheaton College who came to speak for chapel as one of our keynote speakers. He had five main points regarding “America the Beautiful?” and some aspects of loving God and loving our country.
His first point was that we can we can recover or discover. Vincent drew from a passage in Psalms and Genesis to support his point of the “first” great commission. That is, that we are called as sons and daughters of Adam and Eve to be good stewards. He made the point that when we refer to someone as a good or bad rulers/leaders, we are referring to their stewardship of people and resources under their influence.
Dr. Bacote’s second point was that you should pray for your country, …show more content…
Weakland went through a summary of the history of the United States of America, covering points where America was beautiful, and not so beautiful.
She started with Pre-Colonial America and the Native Americans, stating that they were not in “perfect harmony” with the environment as some people have depicted them to be. They still had to clear forest to build communities and such. But they had a value system that promoted the communal use of land and its inherent sacredness, leading them to be less likely to strip the land completely of its resources. Additionally, the population density of the Native Americans was much lower, an estimated 18 million in prior to the mass death from disease brought by colonization. So this version of America was less abused, but still not …show more content…
When only two candidates are involved, there is only one way to count, but when there are more you can choose a variety of methods. The more candidates that are involved the harder it is to determine who the “real” winner is. The “normal” method in the United States is to vote for a single candidate and take the “absolute” winner out of the group of candidates. Dr. Hawthorne introduced a few other methods and showed how in a group of multiple candidates, the way you count matters. The first method Jeralynne talked about was the Plurality method. In the plurality method, the candidate with the highest percentage of votes wins the election. This leads to some scary statistics, where the majority of the population did not vote for the winning candidate and may have wanted someone else in the office. In Maine, for example, 6 out of the last 7 governor elections have been won with less than fifty percent of the vote. In addition, the difference between the winner and the second place candidate was often less than 1%. There are some obvious problems with this method. Some examples of where it gets sticky is the in the Bush versus Gore where there was a 1700 vote difference in Florida, leading to Bush’s victory. Trump only won Michigan by 0.3% of the votes, when 4.7% voted third party. Basically, the third party vote could significantly