It was Saturday evening. When he came back to his apartment, he thought of finishing off all the boring chores he usually tended to procastinate. Of course doing laundry was one such drudgery he had to do. As he came back to his room from the laundry room, he turned on the radio while waiting for the washer to be done.
The radio was talking about terrorists acctivities in a major city in the world. 'Not again!' he thought. This was just after a week where another follower of the so called 'peaceful religion' had killed bunch of girls in a concert in the same country. 'What is going on in the world,' he thought. And even though a part of him told him to ignore these events and focus on the goals he was pursuing, the another part could not resist spending couple of hours on the news media. By the end of it, he had already spent 3 hours going through various news websites and reading comments by genuinely outraged trolls. He had been to this city multiple times and the images from there flashed back in his mind. He thought he could have been one of the victims. It must have been pure misfortune of those who were killed or hurt to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
The radio was going on and on about what different politicians had to say about the tragic events. But you could see that nobody was saying what was the obvious. How could these crimes against humanity be perpetrated again and again by the same community. What was going on! How could these people be so cold and ruthless! How could they invoke their so called 'god of arabia' while commiting these henious acts. What was about this so called religion which gave the world so much misery and violance. Isn't monothesism a contradiction in terms! As soon as you say, God is one, aren't you setting yourself up for an argument you cannot win. How could the followers of monothestic religions be so dumb and stupid.
If you think deeply you will realize that all this violance in the name of this so called 'religion' is probably natural. A static mode of thought fixed in time, which is what this 'religion' was, had to confront the modern world soooner or later. You cannot have a large majority of people following this antiquated mode of thinking while Internet and modern technologies make the world an ever smaller place. The conflict was bound to happen. Perhaps this is the 3rd world war, except this time it is not between the countries, but between peoples. Between those who have moved on and between those that are still living in the mental models created by a 7th century desert religion.
The radio was talking about terrorists acctivities in a major city in the world. 'Not again!' he thought. This was just after a week where another follower of the so called 'peaceful religion' had killed bunch of girls in a concert in the same country. 'What is going on in the world,' he thought. And even though a part of him told him to ignore these events and focus on the goals he was pursuing, the another part could not resist spending couple of hours on the news media. By the end of it, he had already spent 3 hours going through various news websites and reading comments by genuinely outraged trolls. He had been to this city multiple times and the images from there flashed back in his mind. He thought he could have been one of the victims. It must have been pure misfortune of those who were killed or hurt to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
The radio was going on and on about what different politicians had to say about the tragic events. But you could see that nobody was saying what was the obvious. How could these crimes against humanity be perpetrated again and again by the same community. What was going on! How could these people be so cold and ruthless! How could they invoke their so called 'god of arabia' while commiting these henious acts. What was about this so called religion which gave the world so much misery and violance. Isn't monothesism a contradiction in terms! As soon as you say, God is one, aren't you setting yourself up for an argument you cannot win. How could the followers of monothestic religions be so dumb and stupid.
If you think deeply you will realize that all this violance in the name of this so called 'religion' is probably natural. A static mode of thought fixed in time, which is what this 'religion' was, had to confront the modern world soooner or later. You cannot have a large majority of people following this antiquated mode of thinking while Internet and modern technologies make the world an ever smaller place. The conflict was bound to happen. Perhaps this is the 3rd world war, except this time it is not between the countries, but between peoples. Between those who have moved on and between those that are still living in the mental models created by a 7th century desert religion.
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