What really are the Crusades of today? Though the Crusades were fought in the name of Jesus and though through terrorists, they blew up buildings in the name of Allah, and though religions began and often are sustained by visions and prophecies that are sometimes almost common place... you can't blame the violence on the religious tradition or dismiss the tradition because of the visions. Those same traditions help people live sanely and die peacefully. They gave us comfort, support, community, inspiration, and an ethical framework for people like Martin Luther King Jr, Mother Teresa, and even Abraham Lincoln. It's not the religion that's destructive, it's the process that destorts in its name.
Every day the world is on fire with so much beauty and so much suffering. SO we must enter the day with some sketicism and hold on to our faith.
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