Let The Gods Fight For Themselves

18/09/2020

I'm Human & My Religion Is Of Humanity & Is Of Kindness.
My Dear Friends We All Are One & We All Are Connected.
Rivers, Ponds, Lakes & Streams all have Different Names, But
They All Contain Water. Just As Religions Do, They All Contain
Truths.
And all religion preaches peace and kindness.
Stop Fighting On The Name Of Religion & Start Spreading Love
In The Name Of Humanity.
I Love & Respect All The Religions.
The Essence Of All Religions Is One. Only Their Approaches
Are Different.
Let us live in peace and harmony so the world will be a better
place for all.
Remember we are all humans before religion, politics, race
and other things separated us.
I love you all.

16/12/2018

Violence in the
Name of God
Those who murder for their
religion also have a claim to
their religion

"No one must use the name of God to
commit violence," Pope Francis said at
the Catholic University in Albania. "To
kill in the name of God is a grave
sacrilege. To discriminate in the name
of God is inhuman." http://
www.gmanetwork.com/news/
story/380251/news/world/pope-
francis-says...
The Pope’s remarks were aimed at
terrorists who fight under the banner
of Islam. He seems to say that those
who use violence to further religion
aren’t acting in good faith but rather
contrary to established religious
norms. But this is far from the case.
Violence in the name of religion has
been a staple of human history.
(Religion isn’t the only cause of
violence. The three leading candidates
for crimes against humanity in the
20th century—Hitler, Stalin and Mao—
weren’t religiously motivated.)
But violence sanctified is deeply
embedded in nearly every religion.
Here are some examples:
In the Jewish bible, God kills innocent
Egyptian children to teach the
pharaoh a lesson.
For Jews, Hanukkah celebrates the
success of the Maccabees against the
Seleucid Empire. In the 20th century,
the Stern Gang, dedicated to ending
the British Palestinian Mandate and
opening it to unrestricted immigration
to Jews, described themselves as
terrorists. Yitzhak Shamir, one of the
leaders, said he found inspiration in
the biblical stories of Gideon and
Samson.
Christians waged crusades under the
banner of the cross. Not only did they
kill Muslims, they also murdered other
Christians over doctrinal matters and
unleashed centuries of systematic
anti-Semitism. Later, Pilgrims and
Puritans, who fled Europe because of
religious persecution, established
violent and intolerant colonies in
America, acting barbarically in the
name of Christian theology. St.
Michael is the saint of the police and
military.
Islam established its roots as a
conquering army. Mohammed is
revered as a prophet and admired as
a military leader. Shia and Sunni
Muslims have been killing one another
for more than 1,500 years, all in the
name of who rightly succeeds their
religion’s founder.
What religion is more non-violent
than that of Buddhists? Yet during
WWII, most Buddhist groups in Japan
supported their country’s war efforts.
This wasn’t the first time that
Buddhism supported violence. During
the 16th century warrior monks rallied
to the idea that "The mercy of Buddha
should be recompensed even by
pounding flesh to pieces. One's
obligation to the Teacher should be
recompensed even by smashing
bones to bits."
Hinduism is built upon the precept of
doing no harm. Yet in their holy text,
the Bhagavad Ghita, Lord Krishna
argues that violence in the defense of
justice isn’t contrary to the spiritual
life. Om 2008, Hindus attacked more
than 20 Christian churches in
southern India.
The point is that those who do
violence in the name of religion aren’t
usurpers. Violence in the name of god
is deeply rooted in religious texts and
tradition. At the same time,
denouncing those who use God’s
name to justify violence also has its
religious precedents. Terror and
compassion are both part of religion
and what is normative depends upon
which strand wins over the hearts and
minds of its adherents.
The issue isn’t whether terrorists and
fanatics are acting in the name of their
religion but whether they are acting
on behalf of humanity. It isn’t whether
they are good Jews, Christians,
Muslims, Buddhists or Hindus but
whether they are good people. On
that score the answer is unequivocal:
terrorists are criminals of the worst
sort and their brutality needs to be
condemned by every decent person.
That was the Pope’s point and I agree.

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11/03/2015

8 facts abouts islam and terrorism
1. There are 1.6 billion Muslims in
the world. That's 23 percent of the
world's population. And somewhere
close to 1.6 billion of these Muslims
have not committed an act of terror,
nor have they directly facilitated any
terrorist act. So it's absolutely true
to say that (in the context of
terrorism) not only are most
Muslims peaceful, but almost every
Muslim alive bears no direct
culpability for terrorist acts.
More Muslims live in Asia than in
the Middle East, according to Pew
Research. India and Pakistan have
about 350 million Muslims between
them; the Middle East-North Africa
region has 317 million. There are 43
million Muslims in Europe, and 3.5
million Muslims in the United
States. There are more Muslims in
Indonesia than in any other country
in the world, although Pakistan will
have that distinction by 2030.
2. European Muslims are more
moderate on sharia law. Eighty-
four percent of Muslims in South
Asia, 77 percent of percent of
Muslims in Southeast Asia, and 74
percent of Muslims in the Middle
East and North Africa believe that
sharia law should be official law in
their respective countries. Only 18
percent of Muslims in Europe
believe that sharia law should be
enshrined in addition to (or in lieu
of) the existing law.
3. Some Muslims — including the
tiny fraction who commit acts of
terror — are immersed in an
environment that permits and
nourishes the core beliefs they
cite as reasons for acting as they
have . For example: 2.3 percent of
Muslims in Europe believe that
people who leave the Muslim faith
should be executed. By contrast, 63
percent of Muslims in South Asia
share that belief, as do 44 percent of
Muslims in the Middle East, and 20
percent of Muslims in Southeast
Asia.
4. Just north of ten percent of
Muslims worldwide support and
sanction religously motivated
violence against civillians in at
least some contexts. That's about
195 million, according to the most
accurate polling of Muslim beliefs.
I could not find any polling about
the percentage of Jews or Christians
who support violence against
civillians for violations of religious
codes. Perhaps we should start
asking before we draw any
conclusions about the uniqueness of
Islam in the modern world. Did a
substantial minority of Catholics
support Irish Republican Army
violence in Northern Island? Did
they condone it, at least?
5. The vast majority of the victims
of Islamic terrorism are
themselves members of the
Muslim faith. This is a tragic but
undeniable truth.
6. The chances that an American
or a European — of any faith —
will be victimized by an Islamic
terrorist is vanishingly small.
7. There are seeming
contradictions in how much
Muslims support women's
rights. In Europe, 44 percent of
Muslims think that women should at
all times submit to their husbands,
but 88 percent believe that women
ought to choose for themselves
whether they should wear a veil in
public. Outside of Europe, strong
majorities of Muslims believe that
women must obey their husbands
and wear their veils outside their
home. On other issues —
homos*xuality, divorce, su***de, and
extramarital s*x — practicing
Muslims across the world are
uniformly conservative.
8. There are big geographic
differences in how people
interpret the truth of the Islamic
faith. In 32 of the 39 countries
surveyed, half or more Muslims say
there is only one correct way to
understand the teachings of Islam.
In the United States, nearly six in
ten Muslims think there are many
ways to interpret Islam.
You might try to fit these facts into a
simple thesis about Islam, terrorism,
and the West. Maybe Islamic
terrorism is an existential threat to
modernity. Maybe Islam is at war
with itself. But these theses seem
overly simplistic and fail to ring
true.
Before we draw easy conclusions,
we have a lot more hard work to
do.

11/03/2015

Terror in the Name of God.
is a
fascinating read, written by an expert
who has successfully managed to put
herself in the militants’ shoes, and
view the world as they do. Perhaps
the most telling sentence in the book
is at the very beginning: “Religious
terrorism arises from pain and loss
and from impatience with a God who
is slow to respond to our plight, who
doesn’t answer.” The pain and loss
has, unfortunately, created a
desperate, monstrous world that is
now clearly in the process of harming
itself.