I have a plan to solve religious conflicts and here it is...
We have a series of battlefield scrims and which ever religious team caps the most flags gets to proclaim themselves the ultimate and dominate religion!
who else likes my idea?
Just a joke but I personally do not practice any religion at the moment beacause I feel I do not need it but also because I am searching for the proper one for me. Religion does a lot of good for some people... but it also does a lot of bad for some people. A good example would be homeless food drives and the teaching of morals. A bad example would be the fanactics who gain control of their religious followers and begin to proclaim wars in the name of their religion.
The worlds religious conflicts are not due to the religions themselves, because they all are trying to teach the same basic thing which is to have morals and to unite people for love and compassion. The religious conflicts are due to the religious fanatics that come into power and proclaim wars in the name of their religion.
Islam in and of itsself is not a violent religion. Mohammand was a very peaceful figure.
So to me and I think everyone else here will agree, that all of the religions (in theory according to their bible, quaran, etc.) just want peace, but the people in charge of their followers manipulate something good and loving into something ugly and violent.
I myself actually enjoy going to church, especially on Christmas because of all the singing and candle lighting and love that is expressed. But when I have a preacher preaching to me about political leaders and government politics AND telling me who I should vote for to "be a good christian"... this is when I do not feel like I need to attend church anymore. I, myself, am still looking for the proper church and/or different religion that best suits my ideas of what religion should be: a loving, caring meeting of people who do not believe in acting moral and good to save themselves, but to act moral and good to help all of the people on earth progress as a planet.
Also this war America is fighting at the moment in the middleeast has no connection with the crusades or religion at all fellas. People may say that we are trying to secure the holy land (neither iraq or afghanistan is the christian holy land) and a lot of other things, but the truth is... if say south africa had enormous amounts of oil that was being sat on and not being allowed into the global economy AND their country was responsible for the terrorist attacks on the united states AND they had a dictator running their country that we tried to elimnate but failed on a previous attempt, THEN we would have had a presence THERE. But South Africa does not. Another example of the need for oil would be Siberia. So why dont we invade russia? (sarcasm) They have oil! It is not ONE of these factors alone. It is the combination of those factors plus a few others NOT religion. Because if you said religion... why dont we invade malaysia or those other southeastern asian countries. They have the biggset population of muslims in the world there. The wars against various regions of the middleeast that the US is fighting right now is due to a number of reasons, but no one can claim LOGICALLY with PROOF that this war is about religion.
Anywayz... that's my two cents.
