I don't like the world RELIGION

And my reason is very simple.
All religion does is to divide people and eventually kill them.
In fact, we have seen across centuries how many wars religion caused killing people. One only example is the CRUSADES.
In this presentation, I will only speak of the three Abrahamic religions, realizing there are many more out there and they could be another study.

What enticed me to right about this is seeing around me people of one religion trying to convert someone else.
Let's putout this way: Christians do not like Jews because they claim they killed Jesus. Jews do not like Arabs because of the way they treated them when living in their countries.
And Moslems do not like anybody because they do not respect the Sharia law of their Bible called the Coran.
I did use both words Arabs and Moslem as most people confuse the two, forgetting that Muslim means belonging to the religion of Islam while Arabs means people from Arabia.

All you have to do is open a history book read what happened and understand. The main question will remain because you ask yourself why did all this happen?
I like to think that it is our duty to find out , to understand better and try to arrive to better terms for all. I still ask: 'Did religion bring us peace?' I doubt it! This leads me to ask another question :" Why don't we use our intelligence and let it guide us ? I believe many of us have at least a small piece of it but we do not use it. The only excuse I kept hearing is that when 'politics' gets involved, it changes the answer .

Back to religion! One fact, or rather one word stands in the way. It is GOD!
Yes, God. Yet everyone has a different meaning of what it is.
Yes, it is Ovid who said in his 'Ars Amatoria' that is is convenient that many gods exist and since it is convenient, let's believe that they exist. Saint Augustin had another way: ''We know what God is not, but we cannot know what he is . Heine was more positive when he declared at his death: ''God will pardon me, it is his job''.

Why are we so bothered by the question : ''Is there a God''? Theology and all its dogmas will show man that he is free ~to work out his own destiny. The responsibility is his and so is the opportunity. That is When Bertrand Russell ''challenged the idea of omnipotence (`the quality of having unlimited power or being all powerful) as an attribute of the conventional Abrahamic deity''.

We tend to believe that the Creator is omnipotent. If so why having to live with all these troubles? Why isn't energy distributed equally to all ? Is it not true that what we find pleasant today will disappear tomorrow? The more I try to analyze my own words, the more I realize my weakness, my being unable to discern what the universe is. Will believing in God change my view? Is that need so important?

I wish someone asks me a question related to my religion. If he or she's says to me ?
'' What are you? '' I will answer: '' I am Jewish''. No need to bring up my Judaism that is somewhere there nor my philosophy about what I think about religion. As a Jew, i know my role on this planet, to be good, and make good around me. Regardless who the other party is, i will not ask what his religion is.

If I am headstrong to find the necessity of God's existence, I may ask whether he created himself or if it is man who created him. Unless I agree that it is all the questions and answers in the course of history that produced such a phenomenon.
I have a rather funny perspective , which is that if God created men, it was to distract him looking at the way they behave. Being all alone must have made him bored .

Was it not Voltaire who said: ''If God did not exist, we'd have to invent him?'' Jean Paul Sartre raised the same subject when he spoke of Jews and anti-Semitism. I will now bring about a rather sarcastic personal point of view.

I'm going to write down and translate the first three words of the Hebrew Bible to see what comes of it:
1- BERECHIT= בראשית = In the beginning
2- BARA = ברא = Created
3 ELOHIM = אלוהים = God
If we simply read these three words, we get:
"In the beginning created God"
So it wasn't I or my neighbor who created God, but it was the beginning that created him. And of course the meaning changes with the words that follow.

Since we are in the Hebrew Bible, here is another point: I am reminded of a passage in Genesis 11:6 which has always displeased me: ''the Lord saw that the wickedness of men was great on earth, and that the thoughts of their hearts were turned to evil every day.'' This passage called me not only wicked, but also having an evil heart. And I say to myself, this is the same God who made me. Why did he make me this way? So I'm not responsible for my actions.. He is responsible.

Two more quotes before I finish : Does anyone remember what Nancy Pelosi said in 2006? '' You don't need God anymore, you have us Democrats'' .
Jean Jacques Rousseau was closer to earth when he wrote : God makes all things good, man meddles with them and they become evil.