What strange people they are ! In Iraq, Afghanistan - and over the border in Pakistan people of extreme outlook construct bombs and place them where men, women and children gather.
The objective is to kill and main as many as possible. Their crime ? They believe in a slightly different version of the same religion as the bombmakers !
All agree that they worship the same God - but down the track many centuries ago two disciples had a difference of opinion and that religion split onto different tracks.
Exactly the same situation existed with Christianity until recently. In Ireland the innocents fell victim to bombs in market places and the sole reason was hatred of the division of the same religion that they followed.
This madness is not confined to Islam and Christianity. The world is cursed with thousands of religions and their history is fouled with argument and hostility to each other - leading in so many cases to religious wars and the killing of innocents.
What seems to be the problem is the insanity of the human race which believes that we are so superior to all other creatures that our three score years and ten on this planet simply can not be the end of us.
We believe in an after life - and to create that utopia to which we believe death delivers us we need a creator - and so there must be a God.
How simple life would be if religion didn't exist - or would we find a new cause to follow as we took up arms against our fellow humans ?
The new division of choice would surely be football or politics - and given human nature - most probably both !
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