what i want to understand is that why we are on the destruction path ,even knowing that we will be happy if we respect each other cultural  and religious values.\nas one nation what can't we stop forces that are effecting our judgements and behaviours .
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Wow, thats deep. I just hope that I can bask in the sunshine of your infinite wisdom for a moment. I don't even have an answer for your question. Just basking...\n\nOh, by the way, you're a fucking idiot.
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A very good thing is that it grounds a society with some moral value system - this a central theme of most religions.\nUnfortunately that very grounding when taken too literally can drive extreme behavior and rather than create an inclusive cohesive world, it's differences can create rifts in our willingness to accept each other for who we are rather than what we believe.
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To be honest because both sides misunderstand each other, and it seems to be human nature to react fearfully to those things we don't understand.\n\nUnfortunately, it's our nature also to try to avoid being attacked by things we're afraid of by making the first move and starting the fight on our terms so, at the very least, we have a good chance of getting out of it alive.\n\nCan we live in peace?  \n\nI don't know.  \n\nDo you want to?\n\nPeace will be achieved when that's what people genuinely want before anything else, and have the bravery to lay down their arms and walk toward their enemies with open arms, even in the face of harm or death, to embrace them as brothers and sisters.\n\nAs for me, I'm an American, and I will freely extend my hand in peace and friendship to each and every Arab out there who simply wants to live in peace themselves.
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What he meant is that people around the world are UNCONCERNED. We all know that there will are evil people who will do evil deeds. But what are we going to do about it? The world is dangerous because people are unconcerned about these things.\n\nHe is persuading us TO CARE and BE COCERNED about what is happening around us and DO THE RIGHT THING.
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Well...it is not a question of living for who we are...or maybe it is - what I am trying to say is we, as humans, define ourselves through others, through belonging to a group (whatever this maybe - your family, your country, your friends) - you need to be around people who share the same interests, who have something in common with you. I mean...this is why people get into wars (because most times they are not personally attacked, or to be more exact -not they as individuals) but people do take it personal and they do risk their lives because it is a part of them which is threatened. \n\nAnd whatever people say, we all try to integrate in some kind of a group as we all crave for social acceptance and recognition.\n\nThis is a quote from the website below (btw -check it out - it's really interesting): "Indeed, it is probably not incorrect to say that the human group is the very foundation of human existence—without our interactions with each other, we would simply not be people, and there would be no human culture."
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If you are a christian, you know that the bible tells us that there will never be peace on earth.  Wars are said to increase as the end of the world approaches.\n\nWorld peace may be a simple concept to us in america, because all we know is peace and prosperity, other people know nothing but war and violence.
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WE are taught in scripture that we are to love the sinner and hate the sin.  So you are not wrong to feel the way you do.  And I agree it is destroying the foundations of civilization, as it always has every great civilization in history before they came crumbling down as it became more acceptable.
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Sadly, I believe we probably will bring about the end of all things we know and love (or hate!). I think it's high time that we stop trying to "out-succeed" our fellow human beings and remember what life is truly about- treating others the way we ourselves want to be treated. I HOPE THAT SOMEDAY, WE, AS HUMAN BEINGS, WILL FINALLY LEARN TO LOVE, ACCEPT AND RESPECT EACH OTHER-- and to realize that we are really all the same on the inside. Perpetuate the love! (By the way- I'm really not what others would consider "A tree-hugging hippie"! I just want people to spread more kindness & goodness around them.)
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fear plays a big part of our lives. just reading these answers and it comes across so loud.\nthe Lord gives and the Lord takes away. in all circumstances there is a peace that passes all understanding, the peace that is between God and man. knowing that He is in control and if we are walking with Him we can say, even if He slays me yet i will trust Him. none of us are promise tomorrow, let tomorrow take care  of itself, and live today.
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Because we are trying to be a moral country. Read the Bible and discover for yourself.
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I completely hear you.. we just need to respect each others beliefs and ways of life!
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yes we humans are designed to be territorial and against the ones that are not our own. We can evite other conflicts by making sure everybody feels part of the human family.
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No need to kick the crap out of anyone. We must accept the reality that life is all about giving and those who like to keep getting are on the loosing side. \n\nIf God is around us then one day Jews, Arabs, Christians, Hindu's, Sikh's and people from each and every religious background would agree to live together happily.
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thats what im trying to say! Nothing we can ever do will stop people from wanting to destroy us.\n\n"you can please some people some of the time, you can even please all of the people some of the time, But You can never please all of the people all of the time"\n\n\nA Good lesson there!
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Of course.  The hope for peace is in each of us, and the means to make it manifest lie within us as well.\n\n\nAs we respect the holy places of others, so will our own holy sites be respected.\n\nAs we honor the presence of Spirit in the religious practices of others, so will the Spirit in our own practices be honored.\n\n\nGiven that many of us cannot see people from another country as fully human, it is perhaps irrational to hope that we can look at others whose religious practices are foreign, and see not sinners but fellow pilgrims...but that is what I strive to do.\n\nRecently I had noticed something within myself that I didn't want - I saw myself beginning to judge all Christians by the  most intolerant, rigid, hate-preaching among those who call themselves "Christian".  I asked the Lord and Lady to help me...to make me aware of my own prejudices, to shine a light on any hidden forms of bigotry or hatred that I may be harboring.\n\nAnd I found myself cleansed and renewed.  And I rededicated myself to speaking peace and acceptance.\n\nI recommend something similar to anyone of any religion or spiritual practice who seeks to re-energize their own spritual life.\n\n\nA heart full of thankfulness, a soul full of love...these leave no room for pettiness, envy, spite, or hatred.  \n\nThe man who says "There is no right way to live" is a fool.  But there is another kind of fool, a more dangerous kind, that says to himself and proclaims to all the world "There is no right way but mine".\n\nBright Blessings to all.
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That is a cold view of life and human spirituality.  \n\nWould it not be better to create an environment where the necessity for religious war, and war in general, was no longer needed?  This certainly is a Utopian thought and construct but I do think we should strive for that unreachable bar.  It is in the act of "doing" that we truly express our basic humanity.
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Beware of collapsing the two-- religion and those who follow religion. For I posit, that even without "religion", we would be divided over something or other. \n\nObserve two toddlers at play for a few hours and watch them fight over one toy. Very quickly you'll see, it is not their religion that has divided them, but their "idea" that they both own this toy. \n\nWe fight not because of religion, but because of our differing ideologies, beliefs, etc. Throw our heated emotions into the mix, and we can really be hostile, violent people.\n\nHence, don't vilify religion but take note of human nature. For that's what religion does, it illuminates our human nature in hopes that we might be empowered to "be our best" in spite of ourselves.