Someone had asked why can't there be peace on Earth. Why can't everyone get along and stop with the wars. I wish I had a peaceful logical answer to this. I too, share the dream that one day Man will put aside his differences and learn to work together to ensure peace and prosperity. However, the reality remains that we are a consuming people. We consume to thrive. For us to consume we must have resources and when you look at some of the conflicts being fought even today it is a battle over resources disguised as a battle over religion. I am sad to say that we use religion as an excuse to destroy other cultures when we should be using the moralities and values taught from all different religions to enhance our culture and spirituality. I would like to say that war is something that Man engages in and battles with and that Man could curb his appetite for destruction if he really saw fit to do so. However, with Humans being at the top of the food chain and controlling the population of the planet what do we really have to control our own population? Mother Nature does her best to thin us out with disease, famine, and other natural processes that bring about death, but when someone else has a cure, or land, or food and you have none you will fight to achieve these things. War controls our population, we thin ourselves out. It is sad that Life is so carelessly thrown away. Allow me to present this, if you stuck a handful selfish people in a room and left them one bagel. The first thing they will do is attempt to reason as why one person should get the bagel and one should not, eventually as hunger grows, reasoning will be thrown out the window and accusations will begin to fly. Fighting will began and the blood bath will ensue and each will fight over the bagel. Before the death can begin, open the door. Ask what each individual was fighting about and you will see religion, politics, race, culture, family, and other topics be the response, maybe one of them will say I just wanted the bagel. The bagel was the powder keg, while the individual disputes was the catalyst. I highly disagree with it, but unfortunately that is the reality. Religion should never be used as a weapon.
MCL
