Killing In The Name of.

  Imagine a world were innocent children are beaten to death as a crowd looks on condemning them as evil. Or a world were women have their genitalia sheared off to keep them faithful. A world were saying you think different is punishable by death. Were children are tossed out to fend for themselves so they can’t be sexual compotation for the older men that rule.

  You don’t have to imagine this is the world you live in. Not some distant echo of the past. Not some historical barbarism that disappeared in the dark ages. Its happening now all around the world. The horror of it all is that these heinous evils are all in the name of god.

  There is a thin line between faith and fanaticism. At some point in their spiritual journey people reach a plateau of faith. Where they feel they know enough to be comfortable in their beliefs defend them as there own to others and gain satisfaction in them. We call these people enlightened, you can normally spot these people by the clam and serene aura they seem to give off they are relaxing to be around and seem wise beyond there years.

  Fanaticism happens when a person seeking outside of themselves for something that is missing; clinging desperately to the promise of a giving purpose, the certainty of knowing their place in the world and so they try to prove there faith by a grand display. O they can be so full or moral superiority that they feel the need to cure the world of its misconceptions by radical measures. They can also simply be a product of their environment in a strict society such as the Amish which is considered extreme to most anyway what is the next step?
 Well in Ohio the extreme of Amish seems to be breaking in to their own peoples homes, beating them, and shearing off there facial hair violently to shame them for not being what the others believe they should be.

Just as some of the things I have written about before speak of evolutions in religion. This to is an evolution and sometimes devolution of them. Generally there are two paths to this. Going old school in your beliefs to attempt to get back to purity or going left of center so that you can accomplish something you feel has to happen.

Don’t fool your self every religion has blood on its hands with denominations of Christianity  holding the highest body count simply because of the proliferation of the faith. 9 million woman in the inquisition. The crusades as both side were a denomination of Christ worship. And yes 911 all in the name of god weather you call him Allah or not.

And before the rise of Christ they people of that time did it in the name of their gods in  Egypt of old it was to permote the pharaoh patron above all others.

Tolerance is such a simple gift when I comes to religion all it requires is a little selfish thought. Tell yourself I know I am on the right path and let the others fend for themselves. If you believe your god hates a type of people they surly don’t need your help to do anything about it after all they are the most powerful and only true one out their right capable of wiping life from the planet? They don’t need your feeble butt kissing to make them happy. And if I were them I would be really,  tired of people name dropping me on every half baked brain fart idea they think would make me happier with them.

So the next time you feel the need to boost your faith or further its cause try thinking that maybe the best thing you can do is be somebody other people would like to be like instead of jamming your books down their throat. After all once you take that step what can your children do to go one step further when its their time to push their religious limits?