Whitstabletangerine
Vital Reserves Team
It is twenty five years since the genocide in the Balkans, will we ever learn?https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-53346759
Unfortunately it was a warning sign for how ineffective the UN was/is as a deterrent.The Balkans was an abject failure by NATO. A far stronger force including air power was required far sooner. We allowed the Serbs to commit genocide on our doorstep. Thats shameful.
As an agnostic, I would say the best solution would be for everyone to drop religion. John Lennon included the right idea in "Imagine".
All the good deeds and organisations it engenders (e.g Christian Aid, Sally Army) is not worth the far bigger spectre of religious intolerance which is the biggest evil in the world.
Yes, Muslims may claim persecution, but so do Christians and Jews in other pockets of the world. There are even different sects and branches of a religion that fight against each other (e.g Sunni and Shia).
Catholics and Protestants effectively worship the same god, but we know how that plays out in Ireland.
There is no answer - if you try to mediate or peace keep, you get attacked by both sides.
The only certainty is that the weak, old and helpless pay the highest price.
Too many of use, whatever creed, race, religion, sexual orientation are just arseholes.
This is pretty accurate to me.I agree with this.
I don’t think religion is a problem, basically it’s just a set of ideals/beliefs that some choose to respect and live to, isn’t it?
If a collective want to live by and worship a god, then that is their business, and is generally peaceful. I think the problem comes when a second collective come along and announce that “your god and everything you believe in is rubbish. You will denounce it and come and worship ours or else”
That’s not the religion, just people applying it to suit themselves. Isn’t it?
The world's major religions (with one exception) live together peacefully.
Not sure the Palestinians would agree VG
We have one or two on this message board who will use religion to destroy and distort the world to their own ends.