Religion.....always the taboooooooo................

Okay......what is religion? Is it a set of guidelines that seperated Man (humans) from animals? Is it a rite? A way of life? Philosophy? Thought paradigm? What is it?

What drove men to do what they do by believing something greater than itself? Is it a desire to understand the world better or a mechanism by which men can take control of others? Is it mind control? Is it really voluntary? Is it really good versus evil? Is there hell for non believers? Is there heaven for believers? Why is it taken so much of our energy and resources to espand and expound upon others to have the same belief system with us? Is it even universal (applicable across galaxies and not just on Earth)? Or is it just a figment of human inmagination that belies the fact that humans are such fragile creatues with a tendancy to self destruct?

Frankly, it is a wonder to me that humans has yet to destroy itself what witha ll the wars and calamities that befalled it. Time and again, some mudane reasons are thought out to be a precurser to war, and if you read your hisotry books, almost 60% of wars from the middle ages up to now has been religious in nature. War before that general period in time generally concerns itself with natural resources in a wild wild world. Those were the times of empire-building.

All these change with the advent of monothestic religion. Granted that religion itself is not the cause of war, rather is how the believers choose to interpret the religious text to suit their political ideology. So called crimes againt a religion was used as a shield to attack other religions resulting in fightings between different groups of people; all of whom thought they were fighting for a higher ideal. When in fact, they are destroying themself and others which is expressedly forbidden in any religious texts. It is interesting to note how this tiny wisdom has failed to register in modern day practitioners (abeit the extreme minority) who continue to wage war in the name of their religion to rid the world of the infidels. This produces backlash that is common thoughout history from the time of the Byzantine Empire era to present day world.

Guy A with religios belief A' fights with Guy B with religious belief B'. A thought he is doing religion A' a favour. B tries to defend itself against A. The fighting drags on too long resulting in the growing discent of B against A. B fights back against A believing that is it the adherents of religion B's' duty to rid the world of the A' scourge. A hits back again...and again and again.........until one day, both A and B hurts each other so much and killed many many innocent bystanders that both of them is as good as dead.

Sounds familiar? It should be. It's the general theme running in today's world. In this war...nobody is right and nobody is wrong. It just depends on where you stand. My stand is...

STOP THE FUCKING FIGHTING YOU MOTHERFUCKING MORONS!!!!! LETS OTHERS LIVE IN PEACE!!!!!