Posted by: vishontar January 4, 2006
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In response to the original Posting:
Let me answer the first question of your.
Everything depends on people. If people have crap in their mind, they will project crap to the society. Since violence causes the crap let me expalin whether a faith is solely resposible for the violence.
If majority of people are violent loving, there will be violent in the society. The cause of violence could be anything, faith, politics, business whatever.
Mainly injustice brings the violence and that very injustice is a relative term depends on the observer/perceiver. Justice for one may not be the justice of other, they can't convince each other and conflict bigins. Two brothers and sisters fight with each other, they don't need religion as a cause. One couldn't find another justifying that's why they are fighting. Two families are quarriling because they couldn't find each other right. From person to family, family to ethnic group, ethnic group to country, country to continent, the conflict advances.
When two people quarrel, the damage is small. When two families quarrels, the damage get bigger. This way person to family to ethnic group to country to continent, the intensity of damage increases...... big to bigger to biggest. Quarrel turns to war and war to world war.
War is a bigger quarrel which includes many violent loving people. And cause of that could be anything, not necessarily a faith. Apparent cause of WWII was religion not that of WWI. Even in world war II, the main war was between the people of same faith. Was faith a cause of Civil war of United States? Killing of fellow Russians by Stalin? Killing of fellow Buddhist (Chinese) by Japanese? Cold war between two fello christian superpowers after WWII? Killing of fellow Hindus by Ashoka? France-England war? Iran-Iraq war? Hindu India dominating fellow Hindu Nepal? You name it.
Regarding the existing wars in the world as well, we can't blame on religion only. War in our country, between Moists and the government doesn't have any faith as a cause. If you say US/Iraq war as religious, what will you say to Iriqi governemt verses extremist muslims? What will you say to Pakistan and Afganstan vs Al Quida? If you consider Israeli-Palistanian war as religious, what will you say to Northern Irelend conflict?
Belive me or not violence starts when you close your mind. If you use your intellect and understand the problem wholestically, there will be no room for violence. I may think differently than you think. If both of us are fool we will begin conflict; I will say I am right and you are wrong and you will say vise-a-versa. If one of us is wise, ie, knows the problem wholestically then we will be able to convince another. After all the next person is also a human being with intellect. He/she mightnot think rationally due to limited knowledge but can understand if someone explains logically.
If you blindly support yourself, don't use your wisdom, don't try to underderstand the situation wholestically, there will always be conflict in your life. Any war, which has/had faith as its cause, is due to those people who don't know what their religion is but they blindly support themselves, their ideas and their values. These people, who fought for faith yesterday, are fighting for politics today, and will be fighting for power tomorrow. Afganis fought among themselves for power, then they fought against Russia for faith, and again fought among themselves for power. Isn't this a good example?
So my friend, crap is not a faith but crap is in the mind of the people. If you fight for wealth with your sister/brother, the wealth is not a crap; either you are a crap or your sibling is a crap or both of you are crap.
For the crap you need to be blind. A blind is blind for everything not only for faith.