It is sad but true. Ever since the fanatical bloody Crusades three religions based on a Hebrew Bible have kept Earth in flames with violence and brutality of endless vengeance.
Dear Ones,
Its the three-ring circle of flame, as the related law religions rule the world with vicious brutality. Non-law religions are for the most part benign and keep to themselves. They don't cause trouble. But let's face facts. There would no longer be in the modern world, vicious wars of revenge and counter-revenge, ongoing ever since the Crusades and its one-faith Inquisition with its subhuman tribunal of "justice" that made innocent non-believers die and suffer for centuries.
It's not the good, honest members of these related persuasions carrying out humanitarian charities. Instead it's the archaic hierarchy of the priesthood and clerics that rule the roost to this day.
Every week in the lives of members of these three joined faiths the same words are preached to each rival:"Our religion is the only true one, indoctrinated by the first Commandment, 'There is only one god, a Hebrew one'; Only through Jesus Christ your savior can you be saved and go to heaven; and our God is Great and everyone must convert to this dogma, or be decapitated as non-believers of old were burned alive at the stake as Inquisitors also killed human beings for not believing and must be converted."
However, most people never give these facts a second of their time due to centuries of conditioning and programming of these faiths every week of the members' lives.
I was baptised as a Protestant, a descendant of protesters of the original church of the Roman Empire. But as a historian I soon learned the real truth of what is triggering and fueling wars still fomenting on Earth, capitalized for respect of the environment kept from toxic ammo and lethal radioactive weaponry that causes earthquakes, deaths and suffering.
I am now happier than ever, relieved and free to be a humanitarian. I now have more time for quality of life. Every day I thank the mythological goddesses I'm not forced or coerced into attending church as people were in medieval days and before. This was when the masses didn't even have pews to sit in and had to stand for hours to hear men preach in Latin what no one really understood in gold-laden cathedrals reflecting what was stolen from American Indians.
I love my friends even though they segregate themselves into the rival three foaming-at-the-mouth Semitic religions. But I don't appreciate war mongers preaching law religion aggression instead of international peace from political pulpits. Most of all, I respect Jesus, the Hebrew prophet who taught the most quintessential value of life. He was the greatest peacemaker the world has ever known.
Mame,
helenesmith1.blog spot.com author of Erase Race! and Set Free