When war immigrants are transported away from their homes, they many times are not welcome if they represent any other religion than long time traditionalist residents. Dissenion erupts on both biased sides with each believing they are imbued with the only true holy faith.
Dear Ones,
The most recent inhabitants don't always welcome newcomers and often express xenophobia. Due to this fear and hatred of the unknown, people distrust one another as they clash with endless terrorism and violence.
In order to attempt to understand gigantic rifts between religions, we must review in a nutshell how the first proselytizers, the followers of Paul and his New Testament–tacked on to the Jewish Bible against the wishes of the Hebrews–were not tolerant of any religion but their own. We have the Crusades and Inquisition to prove this.
This history brought immediate chaos even though the followers of Muhammad allowed people of other religions to practice their doctrines in conquests among the three branches of Abraham descendants. At that time the Muslims were also great world scholars, as the monks kept to themselves in isolation.
In the meantime, all three persuasions threaten children in conditioning and programing to their own ingrained ways. When the Islam faith claim when their warriors die they will gain so many virgins in the afterlife, this is no different than Mormons while alive on Earth being privileged in having so many virgin wives. Christians threaten hell's fire against those who don't believe and those who do– pic in the sky when they die. It is so easy for us to condemn one branch while having the same mindset in the other two.
When refugees with rival believes are thrown together the idea is to assimilate. But that's difficult because newcomers are hated immediately for their foreign beliefs and threaten their jobs. As a result the immigrants are up against unemployment, as they are also harassed because of their faith, even though old-time residents' persuasion seems just obnoxious to the immigrants.
This all forms a ball of wax that can never be buffed to a shine until people open their minds for tolerance–but not in killing for religion or in the name of any god.
Far right persuasion is rooted in discrimination and chaos. You may recall my experience at a "Tea Party" meeting at the Bushy Run Battlefields in western Pennsylvania a number of years ago. The audience, prompted by a radical leader who wore a gold cross, began to shout, "Burn the Koran." These fanatical members hadn't even read the Quaran! A friend and I attended this meeting out of curiosity. We wanted to see for ourselves what this political group was all about. We soon found out and couldn't believe our ears!
France has been a Catholic nation for centuries. The United States claims America is a Protestant nation–in spite of the 1779 Treaty of Tripoli states the US in not a Christian nation, Both nations are secular. But individuals become quite sectarian when hatred overcomes tolerance.
We must leave our private ideologies at the door steps of churches, tabernacles and tabernacles. Wearing our private beliefs in public on our sleeves excites hatred. If we don't get over this, we can expect terrorism and violence to increase throughout the world.
Some people cannot rid themselves of these fears and superstitions–what promotes religious patriotism leading to futile wars.
As Mohandas, Mahatma Gandhi taught, "In a gentle way you can shake the world!"–for good changes. He also said, "An Eye for an Eye, and a tooth for a tooth will make the world blind and toothless."
Mame,
author of the musical Bertie, the life of Ethelbert Nevin, America's first composer who studied in Europe and was accepted for his classical music
