On religion
I have been having discussions with one of my friends regarding the Israel-Palestinian conflict. That discussions caused me to investigate the issue and spend hours reading articles of the history of the issue. After reading many perspectives I found that it is *not* easy to find a solution.
The basic problem seems to stem from the *hatred* between the two religious groups - Palestinian(Arabs) and Jews.
The cause of hatred is *religion* which is manifested in different viewpoints about God - different cultures - different ways of doing things.
The religion has gone so deep into their life that they give more importance to religion than anything else.
Their rationality is completely subdued by their belief in religion.
This is just one of several religious conflicts - terrorism, India-Pakistan conflict, etc
Religion has been the murderer of millions and millions of lives throughout the history of man.
I think that such religious wars will continue to happen in the world for eternity unless something is done abt it.
All this when it is plainly true that there is no God, and that these religions were invented when people had very limited knowledge about the world and the way it works.
I would say that religions such as Hindu religion might be okay since they propose more tolerance, but in practice, it has been found that even then the tolerance cannot be taken for granted for all followers.
I propose abolishment of or reduction in importance of Religion - come on, now we know enough abt the world to understand the meaning behind most things.
One of my friend Vijay thinks that the root of this and such problems is basically the collectivist identity problem. You can see his pasted mail in my December 03 Post below.
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