Tuesday 22 December 2009

You preach peace and love, but the opposite is true.

This is mainly a question posed to people of the 3 Abrahamic faiths.

There is one big gripe I have had with faith for quite some time, and that is one of the main tenets and building blocks of religion, love to all your fellow man. Except, when religion is observed, the exact opposite is true. More wars have been fought over religion than over land or oil.

For the bastions of morals, you certainly do seem to have a lack of them, Christopher Hitchens said, "If morals were only given to us by religion, the jews would never have made it to Mt Sinai" and he was right, we choose not to kill each other because it's mutually beneficial that we don't, not because of some book handed down from some shiny object in the sky.

So I put it to you, religious folk of the world, explain your position, when you explain that others who do not believe in your religion should be slaughtered, what tolerance is there in that? What peace is there in that?

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