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During history, the figure of wars which have been fought with the religious text or else folder in the hand, are about too numerous to put a figure on. The sound out is whether the sacred teachings in these sacred books, of any persuasion, make happen these wars. Are ceremonial wars based on the teachings in beatified books, I conjecture. As an example, were the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington incited by the Holy Koran? And on the remaining on the side of the coin, where on earth in the Christian Bible did George W Bush breakthrough the blessing to attack Iraq? Probably family would have a hard clip discovery the terrorist operation tips in the Koran, or an dive on Iraq in the Christian Bible, after all their teachings are based on humanities facts to some extent than futuristic predictions.

It seems unambiguous. It's people's interpretations of their particularized consecrated books that embark on wars and terrorist attacks. It is not what is written in these books that does it. It is what associates read into them. Maybe that is even erroneous. It is people's psychoneurotic thinking that starts wars. And in command to warrant those actions, the blessed books are brought into it. Bush loved to get the impression secure in his own region. That's what he says was his common sense to go to war. But peradventure it was more than like, I'm an American don't you challenge embarrassing situation next to me, knowledge that got Bush into the war in the basic illustration.

So what would have gotten a complete agglomeration of men opt that they wanted to present up their lives for both result in. So they quoted the Koran in establish to claim their activities. But that's not why they did it surely? Whereas we can figure out where on earth Bush and his miniscule intelligence came from, us Westerners have a fault knowledge the reasoning behind the suicide pilots. We could read the Japanese Kamikaze soldier pilots who were preconditioned to offer their lives for their bucolic. But Saudi Arabians weren't openhanded their lives for their rural area. Were they big their lives for a religion? What for. Who cares why they did it? We would sole want to cognize how to come to an end them. We merely watchfulness around the pure individuals who died. We don't genuinely attention whether a small indefinite quantity of violent died as all right. Most of us Westerners are not more or less to snap them hero kudos. Is everybody else?

What has ready-made me have an idea that of all of this, is a diary I read. And one of the weather condition in the blog were quotes out of the an assortment of consecrated Books which explained what that picky holiness preached going on for how to toy with your 'neighbour'. And in none of these quotes does it say thing demur that you should know and standing your neighbour, or publication cause you come through cross-town.

So here are the quotes for you to be surprised over and done with. I was:

The Golden Rule

Christianity: "In everything, do to others as you would have them do to you; for this is the law and the nebiim." Jesus-Matthew 7:12

Hinduism: "This is the sum of duty: do not to others what would make happen spasm if finished to you." Mahabaratha 5:1517

Taoism: "Regard your neighbor's indefinite quantity as you own gain, and your neighbor's loss as your own loss." T'ai Shang Kan Ying P'ien, 213-18

Native Spirituality-"We are as by a long way animate as we keep the earth alive" Chief Dan George

Buddhism: "Treat not others in way that you yourself would breakthrough callous." Udana-Varga 5.18

Judaism: "What is loathsome to you, do not do to your close. This is the total Torah; all the pause is comment." Hillel, Talmud, Shabbat 31a

Islam: "Not one of you really believes until you yearning for others what you choice for yourself." The Prophet Muhammad, Hadith

Sikhism: "I am a intruder to no one; and no one is a alien to me. Indeed, I am a assistant to all." Guru Granth Sahib

Baha'i Faith: "Lay not on any spirit a stack that you would not preference to be set upon you, and hope not for anyone the belongings you would not hunger for yourself." Baha'u'liah, Gleanings

Jainism: "One should treat all creatures in the world as one would like to be aerated." Mahavira, Sutravitanga

Unitarianism: " We state and boost point for the reciprocality of all living of which we are a chunk."

Zoroastrianism: "Do not unto others what is hurtful to yourself." Shayast-na-Shayast 13.29

I got these from Karen who writes her journal on - viewpoint chockful mail at hand - and she gave me go-ahead to use whichever of her content, which is as the quoted extracts from an assortment of bibles/holy books or vocal standard saga. When one reads these, one in fact wonders where on earth all those wars come from. It's sure enough not thing as left-slanting in the scriptures. That's for convinced.