Tuesday, September 8, 2009
How did he think it would go over?
After I read Emmersons speech i wonder what he expected the schools response to be. Religion has never exlactly responded well to people who spoke out against their beliefs through out history, so why, i ask myself, did Emmerson feel that it would be a good idea to bash religion at a divinity school. Maybe he did it knowing that he would banned from school grounds or maybe he did it to open the minds of the graduates, to show them that all they were taught might not be true. Maybe he had no idea what he was doing or maybe he ,like all of us, is just a bit crazy. I also felt that he dragged this speech out to the best of his abillities through an excdessive use of big, fancy, and unessicary grammar.
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Austin,
ReplyDeleteA good post, but too many "maybes" here. I wish you'd gone with one of the proposed rationales and explored it further. For example, when you ask what he was thinking, I'd love to get your take on a possible answer.
As for the grammar of this speech (its syntax and construction), I think we can lear a lot from the way that Emerson writes!