Religious Understanding.

     I will be the first to tell you I am not a Religious scholar. Never claim to be and never will. But I can see something coming that scares me even more. People's understanding of Religion is so way off it confuses me as to how that happens in the first place. But after some remedial research from the past shows me that this has been going on even before the Bible came along. As far back as you can go Man has interrupted a Religion to suit himself and his surroundings. That to me is no Religion but a belief that man seems to fill his surroundings with scary beliefs and really bad stories. The History of Religion comes with many Gods in the beginning to just one now with a messenger. And look where we are now because of it. Egyptians started with several Gods and enslaved a people. Romans served several Gods and did the same, Christianity and Islam all did the same. There are even passages in the books on how to treat your slaves. If you read the old Testament of the Bible it reads like a horror movie. When you get to the New Testament you see a change in prospective. But with even that change, Man did not change. The Koran is an even more scary book that hearkens back to the early days of the Bible. In that book, well anything goes and the laws are changed by their Prophet to suit his needs. 

     Now all of this should give one pause. But it does not. We continue to ostracize people, kill children and point out that one Religion is better than the other. All while missing the point of being human all together. Even in the teaching of all Religious books it reminds you to treat your fellow man with respect. But that has fallen on deaf ears. We like to claim our dominion over each other and all animals on this earth, but when it comes right down to it we are no different now than we were 10000 years ago.  

     I know most will say this is written by a non believer or an atheist. Those labels do not fit me at all. I believe the Human mind is capable of so much more. I believe we as individuals hold the answers deep in our souls. And my belief is that there is a God and I cannot tell you who or what it is, but I can understand that the one who created the human race gave us the rights and the wrongs coded in our DNA. This creator would have given us the opportunity to follow him and garner and understanding of what it is like to be alive. The complexity of our species is nothing short of amazing. We are capable of such beauty but equally capable of such horrific brutality. And I have to say most is in the name of Religion. To me it is like we are scared to rely on each other and we have to rely on the unseen to survive. My understanding of God might not make much sense to most. But it does to me, I go out of my way to show that me as a man can be kind and generous without being told to. Why? Because I see humans in a Mathematical sense. There are so many variables but they seem to get along like a beautiful Opera. I am neither for or against Religion, but I am for how we treat each other. It should not take a disaster to bring out the best in Humanity. Because the best of Humanity is a DNA trait it is in everyone. It is what you are taught after birth that changes the equation.