Organized Religion has Bloody Hands

Religion Must Lead SPIRITUALITY and not WAR...

Again I will write about death and destruction...and the churches and the mosques and the temples...and the leading role that religion played in the devastation of the world all along...

Throughout history human beings have worshiped power...have used power to subjugate others...have used weapons to destruct and destroy and eventually annihilate entire races and civilizations...
Religion has a very big responsibility in this regard.... Religious wars have been not-the-exception, but sadly the norm in human recorded history...
Not religion as such...but ORGANIZED RELIGION...has BIG responsibility...

Sadly...organized religion has bloody hands...throughout human history...
It was the persecution of the early Christian communities that set the tome in the Roman Empire.
Then it was the Islamic armies of Prophet Mohamed in the Middle East...When Islam expanded from the Arabian peninsula to Egypt and subjugated the Mediterranean basin...by force.
Of course the Crusaders...Invading Middle east to liberate the Holy Lands from Muslims...
And the Middle Ages...The Dark Ages...The burning of the "witches" on stakes...
The Reformation opened up yet another religious conflict which lasted decades...between the Protestant and Catholic Churches...Millions died in Europe...
And then the persecution of minorities in the Ottoman Empire...and The Genocide of Armenians...
Now...
Another conflict opened and Jihadists are persecuting the Christians of the Middle East because of their conflict with Europe and U.S. Some dubbed this as "conflict of civilizations", may be conflict between cultures...

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In Sudan the court sentences a Christian to death...because of apostasy and adultery....Because she was born in a Muslim family and now she is Christian and married a Christian...She has a son and now is pregnant with her second child.

A Christian women accused of apostasy and sentenced to death

A religious war (or "Holy War", Latin bellum sacrum) is a war caused by, or justified by, differences inreligion. The European wars of religion of the 16th and 17th centuries are the classical example, often referred to simply as "the wars of religion". Earlier (medieval) wars also frequently cited as "religious wars" include the Muslim conquests (7th to 19th centuries) and the Christian military excursions against the Muslim conquests, including the Crusades (11th to 13th centuries), the Spanish Reconquista (8th to 15th centuries), the Ottoman wars in Europe (15th to 19th centuries) and the Ottoman-Safavid Wars. In more recent times, since the mid 20th century, violent conflicts along religious lines have frequently been conflated with ethnic issues; examples would include the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the Insurgency in the North Caucasus, the Nagorno-Karabakh War, the Yugoslav Wars, the Second Sudanese Civil War, the Syrian civil war or the Nigerian Sharia conflict, among others. Other ongoing conflicts are predominantly motivated by religious extremism, i.e. involving a faction representing radical IslamicJihadism, among others those in Afghanistan and North-West Pakistan, Iraq, the Maghreb, Yemen,Somalia, and the genocides and assimilation of the First Nations in North America.

Colleges and Universities in U.S. and Canada have expelled Christian religious activists for their activities against homosexuality and evolution...

Bryan College stopping debate of idea...

And one thinks that our universities do not discriminate...

I may disagree with the organized church position in many things...I may disagree with their stand on sexuality and creation-evolution debate or abortion discussion...But I uphold their right to free speech...

Let everyone have their say...This is how we resole issues...

Universities MUST be the place to start...Let us debate and debate and debate and resolve...

The alternative has been tried throughout history...War and pillage and destruction and Genocides and subjugation...

We admit and teach that "the pen is mightier than the sword." Let us follow this adage and temples of higher education must take the lead in this and in every debate....

OPEN UP THE UNIVERSITIES TO DIVERSITY OF IDEAS and let us debate...and resolve...Even if some ideas may be repulsive and repugnant...LET US DEBATE....not declare war and subjugate...

Creationists being expelled from U.S. university campus....

And also the infamous abortion debate with rages with passion...Let us debate and resolve...

Debate and resolve...Do not impose your points of views on others

Here is a sample of the debate that a student sent to me...As you will realize the language is very dogmatic and very militant...As if the student has had an epiphany and revelation and knows the way to truth...
Her she is...read it carefully...and above all think and think and debate...do not fight or impose your points of view on others...When you impose your views on others you are essentially destroying democratic debate...After all, no one has the right for truth...These are policies that MUST be debated...
Read below...and think... 

An acquaintance wrote to me...

Hi.... I am emailing you because I would like to write to you about something worth while reading. I am writing with a sad heart and exhausted mind. In the 21st century, we still allow the killing of humans.  On May 8, I was one of the lucky 20000 who attended March for Life, a protest against abortion, held in Ottawa. Stop the violence! A person is a person no matter how small! Did you know that currently in Canada there are no laws against abortion? A child in its 9th month, which is the month of its birth, may be aborted.  We are living amongst animals, or perhaps even worse, as animals do not abort their young.  The opposing side, pro-choice, usually uses the same oppositions such as: "it's my body, it's my choice." They fail to understand that no, it is not only their body, it is also the temple of God. Jesus, Himself came down to the world in order to show the value of a human life. Even people who do not believe in God, but understand that murder is wrong, should know that abortion is immoral as well. If it's your body and your choice, that means that it's also your child's body and your child's choice and I can guarantee you that the child would want to live. An article about an event that took place yesterday with the protestors who are pro choice: http://www.lifesitenews.com/mobile/blog/femen-lots-of-breast-not-so-much-brains-or-that-time-i-interviewed-a-femen Murder is wrong and illegal. Abortion is murder. Therefore, abortion should be illegal and is wrong.  But the government does not seem to share a similar opinion. Justin Trudeau states that a person may not be elected into the Liberal party if he/she are pro-life. We are being represented in the government by the wrong people. These people are preventing change, they are quieting our voices, but our voices want to be heard.  There is only so much we can do ourselves by marching for life and raising awareness, but once the awareness has been raised, action must take place. We need the help of people with high positions in the government to cooperate with us as well.  This can also be related to Mother's Day. Thank you mama for giving me life, for giving me a chance to live.  You, whoever you are reading this, your mother gave you life, and you shall do the same for your children.  There are so many women who are infertile and only dream of being able to conceive, yet there are selfish woman who make irrational choices and then make their child suffer. People always take the easy way out, they are even willing to kill another person to "remove the problem". Motherhood is a blessing, even when it is not expected nor wanted. Even if motherhood is not an option at the time, let the child live, do not take away it's life. What about the child? Doesn't it have a voice too?  Not to be too graphical here but one of the main ways an abortion is done is by inducing birth, and cutting the baby piece by piece inside of the mother. Then, the babies are disposed of, as trash, as worthless things that were not wanted.  Without the babies, we have no hope. We have no future. We have no next generation. Next time we all cry out to God asking Him to send us a cure for cancer or a person to change the world for the better, He will reply to us: I already did, but you have aborted them all.  Nina

And of course the death penalty...It is ironic that most "pro-life" supporters in the abortion issue are pro-death penalty too...

The death penalty is being debated on religious lines...too...

Ronald Reagan famously said in the 1980s that if the government is to err, it must err on the side of protecting life. In practice, to err on the side of life in criminal prosecutions is to convict without adequate evidence. Our system of jurisprudence should adopt this goal and err on the side of protecting individuals against the death penalty.

I am an spiritual individual...I believe that "if there was no religion, [humans] would have created one." Human beings need spirituality...But as they say power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely...

May be it is high time that organized church devotes itself to spirituality and advocate No wars...

Ban the wars must be the motto of the Church...
H.K.