Violence In The Name Of Religion

Violence has returned to Egypt. According to a recent news report the Coptic Christians and the Muslims are having another go at each other. This is nothing new of course since history is awash with stories of violence and death in the name of one religion or another. It could be argued that Christianity is one of the worst.

When I read that news story from Egypt, John Lennon's (by the way, happy belated birthday) song Imagine came to mind.

Specifically:

Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace...

I found the following graphic on ReligiousWar.org to be most telling. The text below the graphic is more than a bit disturbing since I do not advocate killing those that you disagree with. On the other hand, if those who practice the various religions are intent on doing themselves in then I agree - hurry up and get it over with so, as Lennon suggested, we can give peace a chance.

Let the chaos begin!

Please kill each other soon, so we can have our planet back.

Thanks.

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I will close with Robert Pirsig's statement from Lila, "[W]hen one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion".

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