(August 28, 2014 at 10:02 pm)tjakey Wrote: I try to be for "religious tolerance" since most of the people I love most in the world are varying degrees of religious. But then I read the headlines of the day and wonder, just how much more of this can we tolerate before the human race is at risk?
The truth is my tolerance level shrinks with every atrocity, murder, terrorist attack, beheading, news of biological weapons, fatwa, and threat against us "infidels".
I have no answer for the religious violence in the world, but the sad fact is that it is all being done in the name of gods that do not exist. There is no more senseless murder than one done for religion. Soon, I fear, it will come down to a choice of doing away with religion to save any hope for a future, or having mankind be a short, forgotten, experiment in the evolution of intelligence in the cosmos.
The most deaths caused in the last 100 years have been from the spread and control of secular governments.
What's the sense in killing for the government of a nation simply because you were born in that nation? Is national pride worth the cost of a hundreds of millions of lives?
But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, His Son, purifies us from all sin.
