This blog is related to an earlier one, but this is a new slant. Read on and you will see.
In that original blog, I took the position that when all of the religions were first created they operated in isolation and were contented serving their followers. What happened is that they expanded until they started bumping into other religions. At some point they started losing followers to other religions and that was bad. In order to prevent the loss of followers, they accepted the "poison pill". It stated that their religion was the only correct religion and all others were fakes and frauds. Only they provided a path to ever lasting life. Who would not want ever lasting life and that was their payoff. If any other religion had that path, they would not have anything to sell to their followers. That is why all of them and I mean hundreds of religions took the "poison pill". That is where we all are to day.
Now, why is this important? It is the reason that some religions are killing followers of other religions. Look at what is happening in Israel with all the killing. You would think that accepting the "poison pill" would be enough, but apparently it is not for some religions. Are they so insecure that they can not deal with any kind of challenge? That may be the case. It would seem to me, that if you are correct that your religion is the only one with the path to ever lasting life, that that would be enough and you would just fill sorry for those who have wasted their lives following other religions. For the Muslims, they do not seem to be satisfied by just being "right" and allowing all other religion followers to just perish or not get to the happy hunting grounds of heaven.
We see it all the time in our lives where people given freedom do very stupid things and end up hurting themselves or not having the quality of life that they could have had. How about dropping out of school and ending up poor? How about having children out of wedlock and ending up poor and on welfare? There are all kinds of situations where we allow freedom of choice and people make stupid choices and we just allow it and they suffer the consequences of their decisions.
Why is it that we have this one religion that wants to kill people who make decision that they disagree with? They seem to want a world where there is individual freedom, but for some reason it does not apply to selecting another religion? If you are a Catholic and you see a neighbor who selects the Lutheran religion, the Catholics don't want to kill the Lutheran. It seem good enough for the Catholics to just feel sorry for the Lutheran. This is a very strange world where some humans feel so strongly about one part of their religion that they want to kill others, just because they have different opinions. What if Republicans wanted to kill all Democrats? What would our world be like then?
I thought that just accepting the "poison pill" would be enough to satisfy all the different religions, but in the case of Muslim, it apparently is not enough. Is the only choice for all of the others religions to eliminate the Muslims religion and its followers as a means of returning to some type of sanity? It my have to get down to that if there is not another alternative.
