The need for a sense of identity, belongingness, home, security are all valid; even basic to our existence and survival. But when God becomes a haggle and life a hustle, you wonder in moments of objectivity if religion, tradition, ethics, culture all amount to greater destruction rather than the forward direction every religion in its own right preaches. If our very own religion does not make us live better today, if our own history forces us to fight for and on the land of our ancestors then how is any of that serving its purpose of showing us the way? Which god wanted his men to fight on Jerusalem or Babel? What good is religion to us today when all it does is create power tangents that are only too steeped in political and economic interests?
I believe newspapers today have more space than thoughts. News rooms have more correspondents than news. Media is in many ways our modern day forest fires, which help burn valuable resources and plunge mankind into misery. Government censorships are as destructive as the over zealous media. The root of the flame still flickers in each individual and that’s what really needs arresting.
The Chinese government has always discouraged the belief in religion in their country. Today even though they have their own set of problems the one massive problem that the rest of the world has to deal with is absent there. They don’t have to deal with religious extremists hindering their progress. It is printing money around the same time Israel, Lebanon, Palestine, Pakistan, India, Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Iran are busy haggling over their gods, lands, culture. Not having a God doesn’t make Chinese people any less ethical, traditional, cultured, peace loving, empathetic, or passionate than the rest of the hot blooded nations.
When someone has a rock strong belief in their god and is ready to defend that conviction till death…. It worries me far more than some one admitting being confused and open to see some of the appalling things that a belief in religion today can cause. These lost souls will at least stop a moment before they shove a knife into someone’s gut. Who among these men will go to heaven, who among them will burn in hell?
I believe newspapers today have more space than thoughts. News rooms have more correspondents than news. Media is in many ways our modern day forest fires, which help burn valuable resources and plunge mankind into misery. Government censorships are as destructive as the over zealous media. The root of the flame still flickers in each individual and that’s what really needs arresting.
The Chinese government has always discouraged the belief in religion in their country. Today even though they have their own set of problems the one massive problem that the rest of the world has to deal with is absent there. They don’t have to deal with religious extremists hindering their progress. It is printing money around the same time Israel, Lebanon, Palestine, Pakistan, India, Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Iran are busy haggling over their gods, lands, culture. Not having a God doesn’t make Chinese people any less ethical, traditional, cultured, peace loving, empathetic, or passionate than the rest of the hot blooded nations.
When someone has a rock strong belief in their god and is ready to defend that conviction till death…. It worries me far more than some one admitting being confused and open to see some of the appalling things that a belief in religion today can cause. These lost souls will at least stop a moment before they shove a knife into someone’s gut. Who among these men will go to heaven, who among them will burn in hell?
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