Vasu Reddy from Chicago
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A major portion of
our documented history points to illegal or forced occupation, pillage, looting
and things that typically are associated with the strong throwing their weight
around the weak or disorganized. Then
came religious conversion as a by product of occupation and after effects of
war. The British along with the French,
Portuguese and Spanish largely exploited with trade and divide and for a good
three hundred years, along with throwing religious conversions, the 1900
century and beyond has become increasing more violent with intolerance. When you even interject a small group of
people with religious intolerance, the room for peace becomes
non-existent. Although religion is a new
phenomenon with most of the religions on earth, the affinity to religion is
paramount to most humans.
1900’s and on have
had communism, dictatorship, fundamental societies, religious bigotry, fanaticism
and all variations of influences on religious and regional groups have made it impossible
for societies to live in peace. There is
some propaganda or diversion to life that infuriates that particular section of
the society by simply injecting religion into it. For some reason or the other religion gets
the color of violence and the aspect of coexistence and peace get relegated to
the past.
In the name of god
there is more killing, there is more destruction and more suffering that any
other earthly factor. Volcanoes,
typhoons, earth quakes, floods and natural disasters used to be major factors
in loss of life, but they no longer major contributors to loss of life. The technology and science is helping to deal
with these issues and constantly improve the means to stave off natural disasters.
But religious fanatics
has been growing by leaps and bounds and has over taken societies and countries
and destroying the entire nation, its people, its infrastructure, and simply
their way of life. There are dozens of
nations that have been devastated just because of factional and religious fanatics. The very people that are of the same religion
pay the heaviest price with life and their way of living. It has become normal way of life to destroy
everything around the world in the name of religion and comes with no
ideological or historical logic. The
human life and its value have very little meaning in religious fanatics, in
whatever form it exists. At birth and at
death, all are equal and choosing to live in peace is also something everyone
strives for, and injecting any forced aspect of life simply doesn’t allow for
the entire society to live the way it should.
vasureddy@aol.com
Historically peace
has always been the hallmark of prosperity and human development. Whatever world history we can trace, the
correlation to human excellence and peace is direct and irrefutable. Perhaps the most sought after word in human
life is peace. “Peace on Earth and
Goodwill to Men.” While our history of
thousands of years clearly correlates living in peace with living in harmony,
the last 100 hundred years have really become human beings becoming more and
more averse to peace.
It is simple to
destroy civilization. The vast majority
of human civilization is in the open and unprotected. These important parts of human existence and
their past are every where on earth, and are of great significance in imparting
the value of history and the past. The
religions that have constantly sprung into existence really don’t have to
appreciate the significance of the history and past, but making them targets of
destruction is simply destroying who we were and who we came from. It has nothing to do with religion and
propagating something specific. Its
vandalism and showing force against the history and people who are defenseless.
Somehow the very
definition of societies and peace has become a distant concept for many parts
of the world. It is not that the
propagation of violence and religion is bringing any kind of response from the
rest of the society. Outside of war,
destruction and killing nothing good has come from these areas of
conflict. The only byproduct is that the
spilling of the fanatics into disrupting the rest of the society that lives in
peace, while gaining nothing in respect from the world.
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