Friday, May 15, 2009
Hillsboro: Hit and Miss
There is no doubt that small towns have trouble accomodating large amounts of people. Families work extra hard to ensure everyone is fed, has a place to sleep, and feels comfortable wih their town. But could this sacrifice for the crowd also mean that they sacrifice what they believe, as not to draw any negative attention to themselves? When in Rome, do as the Romans... When in a Christian convention, shut your mouth. What concers me about Hillsboro, is that no one is hiding their beliefs. They have all been such a close knit group of religious fanatics for long that they know nothing else. There really is no person there that questions the church, other than the defendant. How could a fair trial be held with this audience? Wouldnt the jury be just as mentally corrupt as the people, the judge?!?
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I totally agree with that whole statement. There is not right and wrong in a Christain community, there is only there way. This trial is the biggest trial against the christain community sooooo how they are going to solve it, i dont not know. this problem is still here today.
Douglas, i feel that you went the distance in posting about what no one else could imagine to post about. While most people kept to the characters and how they think people will change, you looked at the big picture of economical and small town values. You pointed out that they will probably have some major problems accomidating the vass amount of publicity and that they do not know what they're getting themselves into. But who knows, I just wanted a third post, so I might be completely off with my assumtion.
I agree completely. The fact that the town has such an obvious tendancy to sway towards the religious side of things, you would think it would be absolutely obvious to everyone that the case may be biased. Should the case had happened later, into today's judicial system, it may have had a different outcome without bias from both the judge and jury. Unfortunately for Scopes, (or Cates, as the case may be) luck and belief weren't on his side.
I agree. I beleive that this was also true in the scopes trial. Because of the heavy influence of religion in the town and in southern society in general the location o fthe trial is not fair for both sides of the argument. It is obvious that the publicity of the town is almost all on the creation side of things from the accomadation of Mr. Brady
I agree 100%. It's almost impossible to not have a bias opinion in a town like that. It's a sticky situation.
The fact that there is this concentration of these religious fanatics is the reason this trial is to take place there. I agree wiht you doug the bias that is in this town was realized but probably had an affect on the trials outcome
for sure Christains always say where is the proof for evolution but what i want to no is where is the proof that someone could live in a whale??? 'WTF' they just cant execpt that they are wrong
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