SEE WHAT WE HAVE DONE TO OURSELVES IN THE NAME OF RELIGION

 

See what we have done to ourselves in the name of religion.
Look at what we have let religion do to us.

See, look and behold.
See what wreck we have wrought, look at the destruction and devastation we have brought upon ourselves, behold the carnage our bloodletting has caused.

How did this happen? How did we come to this?

Once upon a time there was peace amongst the various religions;
there were agreements and mutual understanding amongst the adherents of the different faiths;
We co-existed even in our differences.

But suddenly self-righteousness, zealotry and bigotry came upon us; and men stood up in defense of God. Men thought God too merciful and weak and took upon themselves the right to be executors of the judgment of God.
And so the carnage began; the destruction and wreckage consumed us.

We abandoned the spirit of love and self-control, and wore upon ourselves the cloaks of extremism and mayhem.
Rather than being the images of God, we became incarnates of the spirit of destruction and unleashed terror on each other.
After so much wars and bloodshed; in the end no one won, but we all lost.

For we arose from our stabbing, clubbing and inferno to behold our new inventions; our pride of massive carnage and arson. We had nothing but miles and miles of man created waste lands where we once had productive space full of cultivated fields, businesses and industries.

When we finally paused to take a critical look at our inventions, we frowned in horror at the doom we had brought on ourselves.
For lives were lost, lineages wiped out, wealth destroyed and many years wasted.

We sat in the dust to wail; we mourned our much loss. 

But pride and hatred found their way back into our hearts and rather than take the fall for our mistakes, we blamed the adherents of other faiths for our woes and they blamed us for theirs.
 In vengeance and in search of retribution, we continued the war and have continued to war without end. Behold the result… ceaseless mayhem.

See what we have done to ourselves in the name of religion.
We have made a mockery of God and have flaunted his laws and commandments.
We have shed innocent blood and destroyed his creatures.
We have deserted his ways and taken to religion.
We have prided in our philosophies and doctrines, thus abandoning God’s ordinances.
In the end it is all vanity, waste and nothingness.
Look at what we have done to ourselves in the name of religion.