On one hand, religions are theoretically the gates through which love and fellowship enter, and on the other hand, they are supposed to be the focal point where the bodies, souls and spirits of the adherents to never find peace in sin, sufferings, vanities, aggression and death, but to give strength and solace in stamping out their causes and their effects, thus balancing the ethical divine tenets: spiritual and personal Liberties, godly Freedoms with Equality from an equal opportunity egalitarian Deity, infused by human Dignity in order to achieve Solidarity, Peace and Co-habitation for mankind.
Notwithstanding the many challenges, inconsistencies and controversies each religion is masked behind, this should not constitute a license to kill, a reason to exterminate or motive to subdue others. No matter what a religion teaches within its Scriptures, a true believer will behave humanely and passionately only if that believer is spared the guile and misguidance of the scholars, the theologians and the self-serving clergies, those God or Allah’s self-appointed and self- anointed Doctors of the Law or Religion, as well as those privied experts in the mysteries of the Deities they claim to serve, who maliciously substituted the Divine teachings with men’s teachings, changing and manipulating God’s and Allah’s Laws, claiming to have the authority and duty to do so.
The three Heavenly Faiths have instituted interpretations and applications undertaken by different schools of thought and jurisprudence in the form of religious rulings and judgments far beyond what their Deities have stipulated. The Jewish “Mishpat”, the Roman Catholics’ papal “Encyclicals”, and the Muslims “Fatwa” among others share the same connotation and purpose and are in essence a self-proclaimed authority to progressively propagate decrees and edicts humanly stamped correct and infallible thus binding all their respective followers, regardless of their alignment with scriptural mandates.
Every religion’s Deity confirmed, unambiguously and methodically and in stern commandments and words, that: “Vengeance is mine” say God, Allah and Buddha, etc. Who are we to usurp this unique right and distinct privilege? Who are we to claim divinity and sovereignty? Who are we to contradict the commandment: “You shall not kill”? And who appointed us to be the harassing rascals and slayers of the human race.
