Philosophy Friday #8 ~ Peace

Once more I missed the post on Friday. Sigh, this time it was because I was playing a boat load of League of Legends yesterday and didn't do much else.

Okay, at the risk of sounding like a tree hugging hippie I'm openly saying that actual peace should be a world goal. I'm not talking about some nuclear stand off causing peace; but true, honest peace.

Why is this? Some might ask. To them I have to say it is because as I have studied history for high school and then college; I have come to a realization about the major things that cause dislike and strife amongst people.

Some of the largest ones are religion and culture. To many this may no seem like a big deal but it is. Most of our current world conflicts basically come down to these two things.

I believe in God a higher power that created and loves us. Now don't let that confuse you. I'm not an overly religious person; more because of the fact I think religion as an institute is broken.

That is a personal matter however. I had to take an art history class a while back for college. Now of course much of art has been inspired by religion over the years which also meant we had to learn about various religions to a degree. My teacher as I was curious let me borrow his copy of the Koran, as well as an older translation of The Bible to read.

While I read these and we looked at the Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Hindu, Chinese, and many other cultures for their art I noticed a pattern in the various religious views of the world. From the the Greek gods on Olympus to the Hindu gods. The same basic principles showed up.

Do not kill, do not steal, be kind to others.

If the religions of ancient societies and ours today all ask us to do the same things why is there strife based on what religion is real or false. Let whatever God/Gods you follow do the judging if you are correct. You are as likely to be wrong as they are.

The views of society can be looked at in much the same way; even when you look back at ancient cultures with a few rare exceptions murder was viewed as unacceptable. When it comes to DNA the human race no matter their ancestry is basically the same. Yet people find hate in stupid things such as skin color, eye shape, accents, or any other difference they can find.

To wrap up I'll simply put it at the fact that we should all get along and accept each other. We should not judge others as when it comes to the afterlife people will be judged by whatever God there is at that point. Everyone has a right to their own beliefs. For the most part our societies are the same so get along damn it.

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