When religious rites become violent and cause terrorism, they are not religion but instead satanic demons drudged up from the macabre past. Unfortunately, there is no murder, no crime, no massacre that can't be justified in the mind of man by some sinister dogma in "God's name."
Dear Ones,
As fundamentalists put the blame on a deity, that mythological god becomes a scapegoat for pious terrorism. And why are Jews blamed for their own holocaust or Shoa'h?–because in the religious Nazi mindset the innocents killed their God Jesus, never to be forgiven until they accept him as their savior– "the will of God" for punishment.
We can believe anything we want, but extermination of an entire culture is the worst crime, evilly warped human minds that have come unconscionable atrocities, same as the First America holocaust that annihilated millions of lives during the duration of bigotry against humanity.
The Pauline New Testament provoked all denominations to turn the world against Hebrews who also have Semite roots, as do Muslims. This entire premise goes against logic and reasoning power, what Aristotle taught in ancient Greece.
In later years during the Vietnam War the targets were radical Communists with senators such as George McCarthy wanting to masses of U.S. Atheist. Today Communism still exists. In more recent years Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham want to continue the Bush War by sending 10,000 troops in combat boots as sacrifices against radical Islam..
The complex Middle East of war-torn civil and proxy wars needs to sort out its own problems. Foreign nations have overwhelming domestic infrastructure to maintain and rebuild. Charity never causes war and no bomb have ever brought peace. Religious revenge is the bugaboo of war.
As evil as some ideologies are, you can't shoot down ideas.
Mame,
helenesmith1.blogspot.com founder of WORLD ENLIGHTENED NEWS (W.E.N. ), a blog of essays