i agree the world is much more selfish and greedy, but i dont really think it has anything to do with relgion besides that its been a basis for fighting for centuries for fundamentalists. i have absolutely NOTHING against relgion, it is wonderful and a life saver for people, but for religion to exist and allow fundamentalists to continue to exist is becoming a major hinderance on the world. radical islam and radical christianity have been at each other throats for millennia, it waned for a while for us in the US because we were so far divided from it for a few hundred years. of course, as soon as the world became globalised again one guy had to take advantage of another and the world comes full circle right back to the frickin stone age where we started.
christianity can be great and has ALOT of merits as a moral standard, but the issue with it is that too many people use it as a weapon, eg "nah nah nah, if you do this youre going straight to hell" and i think thats why MANY people are dismissing it these days. it needs to be revised, just as anything else in the world does. the bible and all it stands for is definately a GOOD thing, BUT there are too few people in the world that are willing to adhere to it strictly. i am not the person to say it needs to change, but if there were some modifications to fit the modern world itd go a long way towards fixing many problems.
its a huge discussion, alot of it is just history lessons that will repeat themselves forever and ever. i beleive there WILL eventually be some kind of revolution either within america, or the world. its going to be hard fought and probably incredibly violent but thats how revolutions work unfortunately, and with modern killing technology at its best that doesnt help any.
in short, the WORLD needs to grow the spork up and start taking some responsibility for itself. its noones fault but our own that these problems exist, and its not just one countries, one peoples, one religions, or one races fault. its EVERYONE and until some major world disastor happens that unites us all, i see the world going down the shitter no matter how you look at it. there is ALWAYS going to be fighting going on, there is always going to be poverty, murder, unhappiness, depression and other crappy stuff like that. the reason everyone hates america is because WE ARE HAPPY ANYWAYS. we are happy being ignorant, we all just want to live our lives and have fun, the problem is some peoples idea of fun is a little screwed up.
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