Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Imagine a world...

Find a very comfortable couch. Sit on it. Actually, lie down on it. Are you comfortable? Perhaps a cup of tea would help you slow down, think about John Lennon or Richard Dawkins and... imagine. Imagine a world... Imagine a world without religion:

No 9/11

No honor killings

No Talibans' rule

No Israeli-Palestinian conflict

No Roma-Vatican issues

No gender discrimination based on religious figures' sayings

No Crusades

No Northern Ireland 'troubles'

No jihads

No guerrilla warfar

No Protestants-Catholics fight

No Sunni-Shia fight

No Ashkenazi-Sepharadim fight

No Islamic conquests

No French Wars of Religion in the XVIe century

    • No First War (1562-1563)

    • No Second War (1567-1568)

    • No Third War (1568-1570)

    • No St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre (1572)

    • No Fourth War (1572-1573)

    • No Fifth War (1576)

    • No Sixth War (1577)

    • No Seventh War (1580)

    • No War of the Three Henries (1584-1589)

    • No Wars of the League (1589-1598)

No Reconquista

No Indian/Pakistan partition

No Inquisition

No Lebanese civil war (1975-90)

No veiling issue and debate on national identity in France

No Serb/Croat/Muslim massacres

No worldwide demonstations due to the caricature of the Prophet

No fatwas

No witch-hunts

No “I'm dumping you because you're not Jewish, Muslim or Christian”

No blasphemy

No “separation of the Church and the State” issue

No death stoning

Hopefully No Saudi Arabia (and some other countries...)

No terrorism


As John Lennon sang it, “you may say I'm a dreamer... but I'm not the only one.”


2 comments:

  1. Its a crying shame that we can only dream about it....I am curious however what exactly it will take till we can really have peace in this world. Human beings are always looking for a reason to fight. If religion isn't their reason for fighting, then its race, if race isn't the issue then we start fighting because of class. Basically we would need a world where religion isn't divisive (maybe everyone embraces Bhuddism or the Bahai faith), multiculturalism and inter-racial relationships are the order of the day, and most countries in the world have large middle classes. Then I guess the last thing to worry about would be scarce resources....no idea how we would fix that.

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  2. Now imagine the solution...
    in order to fix this we need to find a way of life that is all about peace , kindness to self and others, serenity, respect towards women and just all good things and then....

    naturally...that religion will have to battle all the other conflicting ones !

    since they(super religion) is gona say:
    "oh people of earth its the religion of peace" leave everything and follow us "
    (they will just get scoffed at bombed, and then have to retaliate etc...and the saga continues...)

    even though now, we know for sure that there is one way better than all other ways that as stated above:
    asks for peace
    it pratices peace
    it shows peace is says we are in peace.

    so it will be a religeon of peace a religion of love and kindness to others but in order to put forward its point ALL others will first fight it naturally. (they wont come easily)

    One would observe that islam came last and promoted ALL these peacefull points amoungst its folowers until the first stone was thrown and fights turned into war ...even though
    if you analyse the texts its the best of all in terms of scripture, law , life , peace,spouse finance and general well beeing and of course beleif in GOD.

    The wars and the mayhem are simply natural progression is a scenario(like our past)
    where one true religion was introduced to a people who followed many different ways already so has to exists amoungst many aposing ones...and offend the too

    so there will come a time(today) when you dont know who struck the first blow just everyone fighting...AND THEY ALL LOOK BAD
    BUT THERE IS A LIGHT(truth) ANMOUNGST THE CROWD

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