As an Atheist, it is hard for me to look at this from a religious standpoint. All I know is that everyone should have the freedom to practice their own religion. Thinking about how the government of a country can single and attempt to eliminate a race is mind-blowing. Think about an entire country singling a group of people, especially living in America, and saying you can’t live here. This literally puts me in owe.
I agree with you. Especially when almost all religions say to be peaceful and loving, but they contradict that by going off and killing each other. Living in America we seem to think that everyone should agree with our religious stand point, that everyone should be able to practice whatever religion they please, or in your case not practice, but the sad realization of it is that most of the world doesn't think this way; and though I don't agree with it in the least bit, they think that this, the killing of innocent lives for not practicing their religions, is the right way of going about this.
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ReplyDeleteI find your whole exploration fascinating. I completely agree with you. I find it repulsive that although most religions advertise peace and an almost extreme pacifist outlook on life they completely rebut this by condoning and provoking conflict regarding the practice of something that they have made to seem a complete supporter of all forms of peace. What I find most sad about this is that along with the conflict, innocent people have been killed in the process of religious authoritative figures trying to figure out exactly what religious peace means to them and how they are supposed to make it reality. I also find it totally unreasonable that the whole basis of this conflict is the fact that truly innocent people have not been fully practicing their religion have been transformed into justification for the wrong actions of murders, those that have ignited a form of genocide.