It has been said that religion has started more wars and claimed more lives than any other reason man has divined. That religion on the whole, is a blight on our consciousness, a poison in the veins of man. The gammut of people these phrases exticate from is a veritable 'who's who' of humanity. Ranging from the most menial Janitor and climbing to the most Hermetic Philosopher. As time goes by, it seems more apparent that people have formed a consensus gentuim in regards to the topic of Religion.

The reasons for this are legion. Some might say our enrichment in science and social progress has enabled us to diagnose our societal ills, exposing religion as a Cancer that must be razed to the ground in order for us to continue as the dominate sentient beings on this green earth. These are merely spectulations of course. And if you were to look at it on the surface, these beliefs would make sence. This is like looking a patch of grass that has withered and died and theorizing that the sun killed it. On the surface, it could be true. You would leave and pronounce to the world that the Sun had indeed killed that grass. Maybe even write a blog about it, and never return to that spot of dead grass again, confident in your assessment. But by doing that, you would miss the person hauling waste over to that spot and dumping it on top of it. Congratulations, you have now made your name on a misrepresentation of the truth.

Religion is like that patch of grass. It moves into places, and the grass seems to brown and wither. People see this and say "Aha" your the reason for all this death. Completely missing the person killing the grass. Religion has never killed anybody. Its the people that practise that religion that kill. If they did not have that particular avenue for there purposes, they would simply just choose another. Its the power some people crave. These are the people that are recorded into the history books. Entire books are written on the evils these men have wrought. Historians look back ex post facto and judge the entire religion and the people with in on the actions of a few, damning it for the many.

In closing, every organization has its fair share of reticent history. It is a forgone conclusion that these acts were enacted by human beings. Blame the people not the message. As Rainer Maria Rilke put it "Religion is something infinitely simple, ingenuous. It is not knowledge, not content of feeling....it is not duty and not renunciation, it is not restriction: but in the infinite extent of the universe it is a direction of the heart."

Adrian Cole