How can you look at images like this and not feel it personally? I think in this world today we can relate all too well with the people of Mumbai. We need to keep asking ourselves -- where does all the hatred come from? Why is this kind of horror related to religion for so many?
This woman lost her son, his name was Gohil. He could be mine or yours.
I have lots of questions, not a lot of answers.
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Unless people stop twisting and perverting religion and use it as a tool to incite impressionable young people (fanning their persecution-complex, and giving them hope of a glorious afterlife if they avenge this real/imagined persecution), the horror will continue. It is sad that religion, which ought to sustain us, is used as a means for destruction.
Many questions - no answers. We all feel it these days. Religion is all too often used to turn followers away from God rather than in ways designed to encourage them to follow His teachings - no matter what name we call Him.
What a terrible week; the grieving mothers break my heart, and I was just reading about Moshe who's newly orphaned on his second birthday. My God.
We do our weekly supermarket shopping in a Northern Ireland town that was bombed during the troubles. Every time you pass the spot, you remember. It's a terrible thing.
Here, as in other parts of the world, the fighting isn't over religion; it's just that the two sides who are fighting happen to have different religions, so that's the division that others see. But the whole history is horribly (in a very real sense) complicated.
Thank you for posting your sympathy to this poor mother, Sylvia; it hurts to see but it does no good to turn our backs, does it? I hope you and all your readers and family and friends have a safe and happy Holiday season.
I think that too much violence is shown too often and people are numb to it. I think that greed is responsible for many conflicts. And where did these people lose their conscience? Right from wrong? I can't comprehend it.
I am at a loss on this. My heart just breaks for the people of India!
Gandhi said, "I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. They are so unlike your Christ." I think this applies to all religions. There will always be people who pervert the message to their sick purposes.
last night we were visiting family and they asked if we wanted to watch csi on tv. well i don't watch violence. it has become too common in our movies, games and in real life. there is a real connection there as we become numb and even little children enjoy killing others in video games. the history of mankind from the very beginning has been filled with violence starting the adam's sons. it will not end and will only escalate until the real peacemaker comes again.
I despair of religious intolerance! What about the 10 Commandments and the Muslim version of them. Is anyone keeping them?
Everybody has already said it more eloquently than I could have. My heart is broken for India. My heart is broken for the world we are living in. Times like this make it hard to be hopeful.
You have raised the right, unanswerable, questions. But in our workd since it's beginning it has always been so. Humans are a bleand of good and evil. The best we can do is control our own inner beast and spread peace where we can.
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