It's #showcasesunday, and I thought it might be a good idea to cast a look back to one of my #sacrilegioussunday posts from a couple of years ago!
There's a lot of religion around in the Christian world on a Sunday, so a very good day I think to look at religious belief systems and the absolute reason they are responsible for almost all the terrible violence in the world.
So, you believe in God. Your religious poison chalice of choice makes no difference, it's your God and you truly believe. Just for a few seconds imagine how your God looks?
Now, let's say for example my God is a black female, but your God is an Asian looking male, and someone else's God has only one arm.
Now I know that mine is the real God and the other two people's Gods are not real because that's what I believe. Equally, the other two people believe that their God is real and that mine and the other person's God are not real.
Now we immediately have conflict because due to your belief, you cannot accept any other possibility that you are wrong. That is the nature of belief.
Can we all live together in religious harmony, each believing in different gods? No
There will come a point where your belief is tested, and that you will defend it. Religious people now are already preparing to defend their beliefs, tell me that I'm wrong and they are right. This is further conflict. Conflict will increase.
Perhaps I erect a monument to my wonderful benevolent black lady God. How will you feel?
You will perhaps come out and look up and feel a bit aggrieved that this monument is pertaining to be God, but you know it isn't, you may think I've committed a blasphemous act and you decide to, peacefully, of course, alter the statue and knock off an arm. Next day I see this, and I am offended and become angry. It's not just my God that is being attacked but my beliefs.
It's very easy to see how conflict can escalate and end in extreme violence. All because of what is nothing more than a belief system that claims to bring peace to the world.
Now I don't care if you say that you don't let your religious beliefs interfere with anyone else's. You are wrong. Our lives are religious belief led every step of the way. Our morals, ethics and actions are all driven by our religious belief system.
On Steemit today and every day, there are all manner of religions posting and preaching to me that theirs is the one true religion and that everyone else's religion is wrong. They generate conflict.
All wars, acts of terrorism and hatred can be traced back to religion. All of them. Sometimes the link maybe not so easy to find, but it will be there. Attempts to control someone's belief system, and if the passive persuasion fails, aggressive persuasion will surely follow.
The world is not fighting a constant battle between good and evil, it's fighting a constant battle between people's belief systems.
And it causes the deaths of millions of humans. Every year.
Are these words my belief system? Am I attempting to push my belief system onto you?
No. Because I have no religious belief system. It is, however, an expression of my deeply considered opinion.
Fools and idiots follow blindly, whether that be rules, governments or religions. People with common sense, stop for a while. Consider decisions of the past and think about their steps for the future. They also own responsibility for their own actions.
The religious use their religions to shirk any form of personal responsibility for anything as they use their own version of religion to cover the reasons for everything.
Let's look within ourselves and see we are all Gods, we are unique. We are all responsible.
I think that was quite toned down for me ;-) #sacrilegioussunday