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Religion, A curse in disguise?!

I sometimes wonder what the prophets and the saints and the preachers and the demy-gods must be doing, (presuming they exist) whenever they see another life lost in the name of religion. This remark needn't be misinterpreted to be from a Satan-devotee... or a demented pessimist... it is in fact from the heart of an honest human, who has given a great deal of thought to the one subject that is seemingly misread by even the connoisseurs of the Bible and the scholars of the Qoran – Religion. I asked myself questions about why there is so much suffering in world today, and unlike Lord Buddha, the answer I got was not ‘desire’, as a matter of fact, it was ‘religion’, the root-cause of most terrorist activities in the modern day. Taking nothing away from Buddha though, religion too is in some ways becoming a desire, a craving to be the most dominant in numbers, to be the majority, so to speak.

Let’s, for the sake of simplification, take Islam and Christianity as our examples. ...

Posted by: Veronica Gardner

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