Religious extremism has always been as dangerous as
the most powerful weapon: stealing many lives and leaving painful wounds on others.
Obviously, I’m talking about holding grudges, but don’t forget that they are
only words. Are they important? Of course, they are the cartridge cases of that
war in which I stand up for the human race and freedom of speech.
Sincerely, I can’t see any difference nowadays
between the main religions and those so called sects. From the moment that they
reduce you to being part of a community, you lose your freedom, which is what I
believe and practice as my own spiritual faith. I would say that I’m agnostic
–again in the middle of the classical black or white. Even though, I recognize
the necessity of looking for a place or state where I can calm my soul. Rituals
from different religions are often the perfect path to reach the longed-for
peace, but freeing them of dogmas, precepts, commandments or fears.
To my mind, we don’t want to believe
that we are executioners and victims at the same time. Violence, discrimination,
fanaticism… are the truths that we don’t want to see in ourselves. Although, this
kind of "social problems" should show us that human beings have been the same for
centuries and because of our nature we dominate the earth for good and for bad (along with rats and
cockroaches). However, it’s better for us to think that we have the solution;
we can change. Will our children change this world? Last Wednesday, while I had
lunch with my family and we were watching the News, it sent a shiver down my spine
when I felt that my son was as I was at his age and I was watching the
same war, the same conflict, the same hatred, the same irrationality between
animals. Oh, sorry! We are human…
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