Comments on: Festival of What? http://www.observationsinlife.com/2007/01/31/15/ An Open Blog featuring Rants, Raves, Annoyances and Thoughts about People and Society Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:51:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1 By: Eric Brown http://www.observationsinlife.com/2007/01/31/15/#comment-12 Eric Brown Thu, 01 Feb 2007 03:11:16 +0000 http://www.observationsinlife.com/2007/01/31/15/#comment-12 <img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/ReligijneSymbole.svg/180px-ReligijneSymbole.svg.png" alt="various religious symbols" title="various religious symbols" align="left" padding="5" /> I find it interesting that behind almost all major religions the premise is the same. They teach us to be good to one another and try to make us better people. Sadly religion more than anything else in the world has been the cause of problems amongst mankind. The religions themselves are not the problem, but rather the people who so devoutly follow them. our gift of free though allows us to distort belief systems into what conveniently benefits us...after all it's all about survival of the fittest and looking out for number one right? Here's a great link on religion on Wikipedia: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion" rel="nofollow">click here</a> It would be great if we could all spend some time learning about other people's belief systems. We're willing to spend hours watching our favorite baseball or football team on tv or drinking until we fall over at the bar, and yet we don't invest the time to learn about the person sitting next to us at the office and about what is really important to them. Nice post! various religious symbols I find it interesting that behind almost all major religions the premise is the same. They teach us to be good to one another and try to make us better people. Sadly religion more than anything else in the world has been the cause of problems amongst mankind.

The religions themselves are not the problem, but rather the people who so devoutly follow them. our gift of free though allows us to distort belief systems into what conveniently benefits us…after all it’s all about survival of the fittest and looking out for number one right?

Here’s a great link on religion on Wikipedia: click here

It would be great if we could all spend some time learning about other people’s belief systems. We’re willing to spend hours watching our favorite baseball or football team on tv or drinking until we fall over at the bar, and yet we don’t invest the time to learn about the person sitting next to us at the office and about what is really important to them.

Nice post!

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