Are you pondering what I’m pondering?

I sat pondering today, about all the unrest with religions. Not just Judiasm, but all of the religions. I just don’t understand why there is so much fighting over religion. Okay, so here’s my background a bit. I was adopted into a rather strange family.  My mother was raised Southern Baptist, my father Roman Catholic.  I went to a Christian high school, where I constantly played Devil’s Advocate and did not get along with any of my bible teachers, except for my World Religions teacher.

As I went into college, I loved my religion classes, and my ethic classes.  And my professors liked me.  I wasn’t afraid of confrontation or to speak my ideas and personal beliefs.  But I always bowed to the respect of others to disagree with me.  Even the ones that had truly outrageous beliefs were still respected, because they’re human beings, and they at least deserve my respect.  They stood up for their ideas, and stood behind them, no matter how out of this world I thought their ideas were.

This whole idea that one religion is better than the other is just absurd.  And until people realize that, we’re only going to have more Holocausts, more Spanish Inquisitions, more Dark Ages and Crusades.  It’s not just us Jews that suffer.  It’s everyone!

~ by jewishheritage on June 27, 2008.