DruNim8 Andrew Cortez

Have you ever practiced religion and received harsh judgement by others? It sounds purely outrageous to think and hear about! Let us get persuasive and decipher the reasons why religious practice matters and should not be judged. Sources —-> Al-Zaman, Md. Sayeed, and Mridha Md. Shiblee Noman. “A Dataset on Social Media Users’ Engagement with Religious Misinformation.” Data in Brief, vol. 49, 2023, pp. 109439- 
109439, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2023.109439. Dobel, J. Patrick. “Judging the Private Lives of Public Officials.” Administration & Society, vol. 30, no. 2, 1998, pp. 115-42, https://doi.org/10.1177/0095399798302001.
Upenieks, Laura. “Religious/Spiritual Struggles and Well-Being during the Covid-19 Pandemic: Does ‘Talking Religion’ Help or Hurt?” Review of Religious Research, vol. 64, no. 2, 2022, 
Pp. 249-78, https://doi.org/10.1007/s13644-022-00487-0.— narrated by Drewy

Do you believe in aliens? Do you think we are not alone in this universe? Here is a viewpoint on a new religious movement that is a UFO based religion. LETS DISCUSS RAELISM ——> Sources——> Bozeman, John M. “Field Notes: The Raelian Religion-Achieving Human Immortality Through
Cloning.” Nova Religio, vol. 3, no. 1, 1999, pp. 154-59,
https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.1999.3.1.154.
Gregg, Stephen E. “Queer Jesus, Straight Angels: Complicating ‘Sexuality’ and ‘Religion’ in the
International Raëlian Movement.” Sexualities, vol. 17, no. 5-6, 2014, pp. 565-82,
https://doi.org/10.1177/1363460714526129.
Helland, Christopher. “The Raëlian Creation.” Alien Worlds: Social and Religious
Dimensions of Extraterrestrial Contact (2007): 275.
Vogel, Gretchen. “Cloning Bills Proliferate in U.S. Congress.” Science (American Association
For the Advancement of Science), vol. 292, no. 5519, 2001, pp. 1037-1037,
https://doi.org/10.1126/science.292.5519.1037a. Narrated by Baabo and Louy

What are the Pros and Cons of Movies/Film - narrated by Louy and Mink —-> Works Cited
Coco. Directed by Adrian Molina and Lee Unkrich, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, 2017.
Dillon, Kelly P., and Brad J. Bushman. “Effects of Exposure to Gun Violence in Movies on
Children’s Interest in Real Guns.” JAMA Pediatrics, vol. 171, no. 11, 2017, pp. 1057-62,
https://doi.org/10.1001/jamapediatrics.2017.2229.
Erasmus, Frederick. “What Lessons Can Be Learned from Cinema?” Medium, Medium, 24 Jan.
2020, medium.com/@fredrik_erasmus/what-lessons-can-be-learned-from-cinema-
9cc604b2ff40.
Gahagan, Jacqueline, and Lois Jackson. “Perspectives on ‘Pornography’: Exploring Sexually
Explicit Internet Movies’ Influences on Canadian Young Adults’ Hollistic Sexual Health.”
The Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality, vol. 23, no. 3, 2014, pp.148-58,
https://doi.org/10.3138/cjhs.2732.
Kidnap. Directed by Luis Prieto, Aviron Pictures, 2017.

Have you read Jose Emilio Pacheco’s poems? Let us analyze two interesting poems by this Mexican poet- narrated by Moe

Let us examine one perspective on how the United States has grown through historical ideations of religion - narrated by Baabo————-> Sources—> Ignagni, Joseph A. “U.S. Supreme Court Decision-Making and the Free Exercise Clause.” The
Review of Politics, vol. 55, no. 3, 1993, pp. 511-29,
https://doi.org/10.1017/S003467050017654.
Levinson, Martin H. “INDEXING THE RELIGIOUS BELIEFS OF AMERICA’S
FOUNDERS.” Etc., vol. 69, no. 4, 2012, pp. 384-93.
Sobolieskyi, Yaroslav. “Philosophical Views of Thomas Jefferson on Religion and Politics.”
Ukrainian Policymaker (Online), vol. 3, no. 3, 2018, pp. 58-64,
https://doi.org/10.29202/up/3/8.

Minionism, a religion that will attract followers and will bring satisfaction. (revolves around the Minions/Despicable Me) (7 Dimensions of Religion mentioned- Experiential, Mythic, Doctrinal, Ethical, Ritual, Social, Material) - narrated by Drewy