Wednesday, July 19, 2006

Religion and Philosophies That Kill

Humans continue to prove be the most damaging creation to our world.
We have the capacity to create ideas that justify anything, from cannibalizing each other, to invent with our talent systems of mass destruction that can kill hundreds of thousands in one blip as the atomic bombs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The destruction experience continues with innovative procedures. The quality of the killing and the quantity of the killing now has taken philosophical and religious trends. Who kill for what and how is done, do we mass murder or use sophisticated guns or laser guided missiles or fission bomb or we dump depleted uranium in hundreds of thousand shells as done in Iraq.
We continue to walk away from one of our most untapped talents: human to human dialogue, mutual education and respect for our social agreements.
The latest killings are taking the name of religion to a point of questioning those lauded gods.
If your god justifies your killing shouldn’t you change gods, otherwise there is no much you can add to our race, our planet, our development, even your religion. If your religion puts a higher laud in you as dead than puts laud in you alive, well, please do it alone and do not leave a mess behind.
Religious leaders, town leaders all the way up to national leaders are becoming co-conspirators to killings by doing no much or by doing too much in promoting or avoiding their own tenets or respect for human live and using all means to save all lives.
When religion and political leaders promote killing of each other for some well rhetorical argument, we need a serious new way to grow in our learning as species and clearly top to bottom new leaders.

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