Religious hostility rising

This is a shorty today.

If you watch the TV daily or read the headlines in your newspapers on a regular basis you would think that religious hostilities around the world are increasing...but again you might stop and think hold on here...aren't religions supposed to be spreading peace and love? Well if you are seeing a disconnect between religious hostilities and peace and love you would be accurate in your assessment according to a new report released by PEW.

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The research compiled by the non-partisan think tank claims that religious hostilities reached a six year peak by the end of 2012. According to PEW, religious hostilities had increased in every major region of the world except the Americas. http://www.pewforum.org/2014/01/14/religious-hostilities-reach-six-year-high/

Hot sauce collection at Plaza

i've often wondered what the world would be like if religious instruction wasn't begun when we are children. We have no religious beliefs when we arrive, we are a clean slate. Not one child born on earth comes in with a belief in anything or knowledge about how the world works. Every child is filled with information provided by parents that “believe” they are doing the right thing, me included.

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i'm not going any farther with this except to say that the PEW report is disheartening in so many ways. We see religious heads all over the world either trying to reign in the intolerance or go for the throat. When will they ever come together?

See ya next week.