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Where does it start and end?
Last night I watched Frontline on PBS. It featured young men from Pakistan, children really who were eager to fight for al Qaida. They talked about how they would accept the job of suicide bomber if it was "God's will." Those two words were used a lot in the program, "God's will."
War and religion don't mix; they never have. The young boys on Frontline is just another example of why. I know this has been said many, many times before but no matter what your religion, what God, Allah, or Buddha would want or be willing for you to die or blow yourself up and take others down with you?
I am of the Catholic faith (please don't send me comments about dirty priests. In fact people, pedophiles are everywhere not just in Catholic churches). My father was Catholic and my mother is Methodist. The only real difference I remember when I was young when I visited both places of worship was that the Methodists didn't seem so gloomy or filled with doom. They sang with cheer and praised the Lord. The masses at St. Mary's Church were more solemn and nuns seemed 8 feet tall, priests were at least 15 feet tall and the Pope was unreachable.
The whole idea of my religion or my God wants me to do it just doesn't sit with me. It never has and it never will. They have oil, we start a war and we invaded their religion. That is all they know and live by really. Because their faith is so strong, its hard to fight it; you can't really. I feel sorry for anyone who allows their religion to guide them so profusely into life decisions. What if there were no religion; anywhere, everywhere?
Frontline also had a story on well known past photographers. This story was also interesting, but one comment stuck with me. George Bernard Shaw once said, "I would trade any painting of Jesus for one photograph." Indeed sir.
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