by Wayne Leon Learmond

Created on: February 12, 2011   Last Updated: February 15, 2011

When one looks back throughout this world's bloody history, one thing stands out above all...religion. Religion has been one of the major causes for wars and terrorists strikes around the globe. Religion, above anything else, has been used as an excuse to enslave, to rape, pillage murder, and take over lands... all in the Name of God.

Human beings of whatever denomination, of whatever religion they follow, have all fallen into the same trap of believing wholeheartedly, that their religion is the 'truth'. That because something has been 'written down' in a holy book, it then makes it right to murder and maim...and to hate.

From the Neo-fascists {such as the Ku Klux Klan} in the Bible Belt of the Deep South of America, who believe it is their God-given right to keep others of a certain race, beneath them, to murder them and treat them lower than animals, to Middle-Eastern terrorists who believe that Allah, wishes them to commit atrocities against others, simply because they are not Muslim, the bloodshed goes on unabated.

And one has to look at Israel too. The Jewish people should know about persecution, prejudice, and hatred. Yet their war with the Palestinians {in which they have murdered indiscriminately men, women and children, and stolen land that others had lived on for generations}, goes on unabated. The Palestinians too, believe that it is their God-given right to live were they are and so, they too, murder indiscriminately...all in the name of religion.

The bloody fight over land goes on, yet the Israelis continue to build their illegal homes on land that they say was given to them by God.  They do this whilst kicking out those who had homes there in the first place. It seems that the Jews are doing exactly what the Nazis had done to them, and all this in the Name of God? America too, who stole land that the American Red Indians had lived on for centuries, citing, religion and God, as one of the main reasons for this pillaging and murder of indigenous people.

The American Civil War, one could say, was the cause of the South wanting to keep her traditions, her way of life, and her 'God-given' right to 'own' slaves. The bloodshed that followed, because of this 'cause', saw countless men cut down on the battlefields. And yet what was the war for?  The upholding of certain  'traditions' within the South, 'traditions' that saw countless Africans herded like cattle, to become trapped in a nightmare of servitude,

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