Stop and smell the Urine

As I wonder about Roy's philosophy of nonviolence if it is just his nature or does he really know what is going on. One of the biggest problems facing the world today is the battle between extremist Christians and Muslims. I call it the fifth crusade. Others call it a holy war. We seem to be fighting on what to call God. It has been going on for over a thousand years. The war between the Sunni and Shiite's started four hundred years before that. Here we are in the twenty first century still fighting. Roy has no religion so maybe that is a good reason not to be violent. Imagine a world without religion. I am not talking from an atheist point of view I do believe in God. Most religions believe that they are right and that is the problem. The is no one so dangerous as one who believes that they is right. If you believe that you have the truth you will never seek it. Religion is not the path to God for it an attempt to control God. The first basic rule of all religions is total submission to the will of God. However upon closer investigation we find what they mean complete submission to a dogma. Dogma is not the truth it is what a group of people believe about the truth. religion helps one to deal with their greatest fear the fear of dying. I haven't counted all the religions of the world but I know that there over a thousand Christian denominations. I am most interested in three basic religions who consider themselves sons of Abraham, Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Judaism out dates the other two as they are the outgrowth of it. Jews as they are called see themselves sons of Israel who was Abraham's grandson. There were twelve tribes united under king David but split after his son and successor Solomon died into two kingdoms know as Israel and Judah. Israel was conquered by Assyria and scattered all over the Assyrian Empire so they could not ban together and revolt. Babylonia conquered Assyria then conquered Judah. Instead of dispersing them Babylonia into captivity, which lasted 70 years Persia conquered Babylonia and allowed the Jews as they were named by their captures to return home. Abraham however had four sons. First there was Ishmael who is considered the father of the Arabian. His second was Isaac who had two sons, Jacob who later became known as Israel and Esau who had seven sons himself. After his wife Shara died Abraham remarried and had two sons that the Hebrew text does not name. Don't worry I am not going to give you a complete history of Judaism I just want you to see the origin of these religions.
Christianity who claim their founder was God was at first a sect of Judaism until Titus destroyed Jerusalem and the temple carrying them into slavery or sent elsewhere of the kingdom. Under Roman rule Christians were periodically persecuted starting with Nero in 66 ce. Most persecutions were local. This continued until the fourth century when Constantine converted to Christianity. By that time there were seven established Christian churches. However because of the council of Niece where all were gathered under one church. This did not include the churches of Ethiopia or Egypt. The collision was split over the nature of Jesus. While the council decided that he had two natures God and man the Orthodox church insisted he was all God and not man. In 383 Christianity was made the only religion in the crumbling Roman Empire.

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