Religions and religious leaders are very powerful. They are very good in changing the opinion of the people and convincing people. (Look at the way the poor writers were sent packing from JLF. Felt really ashamed of calling myself an Indian) Don't you think they can and should use it to help mankind?
One field where they can help is controlling is religious fundamentalism. Like we teach our children that it is wrong to fight with other children. Argue but no hurting each other.
Look at another analogy here. We may have lot of differences with our neighbors. We may not like the way they walk, they eat or even they breathe. But what do we do? We laugh at them when we are sure they can not hear us. But when we meet them face to face, we do not show any of these feelings. We bring out our best how are you's and talk about other stuff.
We do this because we want to be good neighbors. If we can be good neighbors, we can even be good religious people, isn't it? We don't have to show our hatred to people of other religions (for that matter, other languages, other countries, anything other). They are not sitting in our house, nor are they eating our food. We can behave in a civilized way... So that our future generations will be left with some civilization. Or so that there will be future generations!!
In order to convince this to people, religious leaders can help to a great deal. Don't you think so?
One field where they can help is controlling is religious fundamentalism. Like we teach our children that it is wrong to fight with other children. Argue but no hurting each other.
Look at another analogy here. We may have lot of differences with our neighbors. We may not like the way they walk, they eat or even they breathe. But what do we do? We laugh at them when we are sure they can not hear us. But when we meet them face to face, we do not show any of these feelings. We bring out our best how are you's and talk about other stuff.
We do this because we want to be good neighbors. If we can be good neighbors, we can even be good religious people, isn't it? We don't have to show our hatred to people of other religions (for that matter, other languages, other countries, anything other). They are not sitting in our house, nor are they eating our food. We can behave in a civilized way... So that our future generations will be left with some civilization. Or so that there will be future generations!!
In order to convince this to people, religious leaders can help to a great deal. Don't you think so?
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