In one of my postings (on my WordPress Blog) on the Islam movie, Fitna, by Geert Wilders a blogger wrote the following comment regarding the state of the world and the excuses that people use to use (read, abuse) religion. Consider the following comment (the comment is as he/she wrote it):
What had happened in this world ..We all can see…
It is indeed a sad fact that some turn religion into
an excuse to the extreme violent . All religion are
suppose to promote love , peace and harmony ..So
does the REAL Islam and some extremist have used the
name of religion to screw the world…Religion need not
force others with death threat…
I came to this understanding: with all the wars that we are seeing in the world, from World War I, to World War II, to the Cold War and to the ethnic strife and conflict that we are seeing in the post-communist world, isn’t love part of the problem? I mean, isn’t it the fact that we love one group to the exclusion of another group part of the problem? If we all love each other equally then love ceases to exist because there is no counterweight. It becomes the norm with no deviation.
So the adage that we all must love each other really cannot be the answer. . . hmmmm.
Doesn’t love – by definition – mean that it must identify itself against a least favored object or person? Doesn’t that lower being develop a resentment? Ah, so love can’t be the answer.
