I took HONS 361 The Problem of Evil in my Fall semester, Sophmore year, to complete the Historical & Contemporary/Behavioral & Social Perspectives requirement. I was excited to take this class because I have always been interested in this and similar topics concerning different human perspectives. As I was taking this class I continually found it very interesting and was engaged in the material being presented, which is what I was hoping to get out of it. There were many topics presented that I had heard of before, but some that I had never heard of, and from these I found out more about many differing beliefs held by a variety of people and became more educated to differing views and what and why these occur.
One of my favorite assignments we had to complete in this class was the group dialogue project, where I and two others worked together to create a script for three different people and three differing views on the problem of evil. This required our group to go back on all we had learned in this class to create these views and how they would work with and against each other. I found through this class, but especially this project, that it helps to put yourself in someone else’s shoes and first try to understand where they are coming from, and doing this allows for a better understanding of what they believe and who they are because of it. It made me have a more open view of others that differ from what I believe, and now I feel I am more open minded to a variety of ideals. I hope to continue this lesson in all areas of my life, not just religious beliefs, instead of simply assuming someone is wrong because they do not agree with me.
Final Project Dialogue; Claire Briggs, Kylie Gannon, and Ariel Birkholz; 20 November 2020. Group project where a dialogue script between three different people of differing religious beliefs occurs talking on the problem of evil.