One day I would love to live in a world where no one felt the need to criticise each other. The kind of world where Atheism did not seem so vulgar a thought that some Christians insist on labelling you all sinners. The kind of world where a guy like me doesn't have to be ridiculed because people have had some bad experiences.
Do we really feel that badgering others will result in a common truth? By saying that people are stupid for holding their opinions you only militarise them. Fostering the assumption that they are being attacked.
Which they are.
Because the truth is that religion carves a line in societies, I am right and you are wrong, I am blessed and you are an infidel, God will reward me and punish you.
It's the same story in almost every country you care to study. People use the figure of God to justify their primal, illogical need to hate.
We need to stop doing this to ourselves.
Tell me, where has jeering religious people gotten anyone? Has it made them better people to know that they have spat on everything someone else holds dear?
And that televangelist, do you think that condemning Atheists and Agnostics and Muslims to hell has enriched his life?
We are so bitter, so like children.
Someone has to stop the madness and create a sense of what UNITES us. Of how we share a common desire for the betterment of humanity.
All men want peace, all men want the freedom to find that peace on their own terms, free from illogical hostility.
The road to enlightenment comes not from calling for other opinions to be banned, or by proclaiming others to be idiots and simpletons. We must see that we are different, but love each other for our differences.
For every rotten apple humanity produces, there are hundreds of other ripe fruits to be harvested.
Our shared hope for peace makes us a whole, but our faith blesses us with the gift of individuality.