Religion segregates people while faith brings us together
Paganism, Christianity, Wicca, Muslim, Protestant, Jewish and Catholic are all terms that we’re intimately familiar with. Each term represents a group of people with like minded beliefs on God, religion, and to a certain extent, how individuals should regard and live their life. In theory, and according to the books of each denomination, the faithful should be the kindest, most tolerant, devoted, and accepting philanthropist in the world. Sadly, this is not how things usually work out. History has shown us that in the early days Christians used every trick in the bag to turn the old world Pagans to Christianity by leveraging terror tactics not unlike those used by the Muslim extremists since 9/11. Following the establishment of Christianity as THE religion for Roman Europe, no less than 12 Crusades were documented between 1095 and 1234 where Christians, Jews, and Muslims were pitted against each other under the guise of religious cleansing. Believe what you will, though, it seems that this was really just a simple ploy to expand the reach of the Roman Empire and the authority of the Pope himself. Let’s not forget one of the most significant and well documented example of ethnic and religious cleansing, Hitler and the Nazi regime in Germany (followed by most of Europe) where the movement accounted for more than 12 million deaths (before World War 2) of which over 6 million were of Jewish faith.