| A203D said: I suppose on some level this is true, if every person were of the same religion, their values, morals, etc would quite possibily lead to world peace. but i mean, why islam and not scientology. are not most world religions ones of peace. personally i see religions as a declining thing, even thought catholcisim is currently the worlds largest relgion and say if islam replaces it in the near future, what makes people think this would last forever. do people really think the world will be the same place it is now in 50 years. look at how fast things have changed in the last 20 - 30 years alone. in 100 years there could be completely new religions or no religions at all. |
As someone who has been alive for the past 30 years, in the past 30 years the world has not changed nearly as much as it did in the 30 years preceding it; and I expect that the next several decades will (mostly) be a seemingly slower, more steady, progression along the path we have been for the past 65 years.
With that said, there is very little conflict between most religions today, and most religions have found a way to co-exist in a relative peaceful way throughout most of the world. While I don’t want to offend Muslims, the exception to this seems to be Islam. Now we could blame Islam for this, but personally I would say that Islam is the tool that individuals who seek power are using to channel anger; and in the absence of Islam these individuals will find another tool to use.
Regardless of whether there are no religions, one religion or a hundred religions until people learn to deal with the things that they control and accept the things they can not control there will continue to be conflict
