A Mosque was attacked in Egypt leaving 235 people dead. For those of you who might have the inclination that all Muslims are evil, you might want to ponder this fact. 235 Muslims killed by other Muslims who used the idea of faith as a cause to kill. Yes you would be correct in thinking that the idea of religion as a weapon is wrong and a horrible idea but when psychopaths get together at night and try to come up with some bullshit reason the horrific ideas they have and act on, Religion is an old standby.
Yes all religions have these monsters and all religions have denied these monsters act as a banner cause of their faith, so you devout Christians who like to wave that flag we are better, just think crusades for a moment.
The truth is religion and faith is two different things; Faith is an unfailing belief in God in some fashion. Religion is the human construct that we use to worship together. The truth be told here just because some use religion to do acts of evil such as today’s bombing does not mean the Religion is wrong yours or others.
All this act should have shown the world is that as a race of humans we are letting ourselves be destroyed by a group of other humans who choose to hate and kill instead of live in peace. Religion is not their cause, chaos is. Islam is different than Christianity which is different than Judaism but they all choose to worship the same God. Those men killing Muslims this morning do not know God in any form.
Just because a man stands behind a religion when he acts in evil ways does not mean the religion is wrong, nor does it mean it is right, it means an evil man wants to destroy what he sees as the enemy. Current Radical Islamic Terrorists have chosen to hate everyone and they do not represent Faith or Religion in any way. Did Jim Jones represent Christians when he killed in the name of God? Did Bin Laden represent Islam when he chose to kill Americans? Or were they simply psychopaths who chose Religion to justify their actions like a 2 year old does when they know they did something wrong?
I propose the news stops talking about the faith these men and women claim and just call them what they are, evil men who have no regard for human life and hate the world. Maybe then we can climb past all the religion dialogue and treat these men as criminals against the human race. I might remind all people this season of peace, violence begets violence, so maybe we should show our neighbors some human charity instead of judging their choices and maybe instead of blaming religion for evil men we blame the evil men for their actions. In this Modern world we seem to have lost this idea of personal responsibility maybe we should find that again.