Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Is religion the real cause?

What is the root cause of the conflict happening all over the world? All fingers points towards religious fundamentalism! That’s because in most wars, it looks like people of one religion fighting against people of another religion. Imagine if there was only a single religion in the world, would our world be peaceful?
By that logic, two neighboring countries following the same national religions should have no reason to fight amongst themselves. But this logic also is proved false. Even within the same religion, we find two groups of different sects fighting amongst each other.
I think that the root cause of this conflict is not religion but human nature by itself. The root cause is greed, envy, ego/pride. The other reason is scarcity of resources like food, water caused by unchecked growth of the population. Humankind is on its way to self destruction…