Opinion #2

Religion.

Why can there only be one "right" religion? What exactly is a "wrong" religion? Why can't we all be right? I think that there really is only one God; we just call Him by a different name. That doesn't make it wrong. That makes it life. If everyone thought the same exact way and believed the same exact thing, the world would be a very dull place.

And since when did it become okay to judge an entire group of people for a smaller, barely related group doing something wrong? The Taliban bombed us. Nine years ago. So when they want to build a mosque just a little way away from the bomb site, everyone goes crazy! Blaming the Muslims for everything and basically telling them to eff off. I'm sorry, maybe I'm confused here, but what exactly did Muslims do to us? Oh that's right, NOTHING! So what if members of the Taliban happened to be Muslim? That doesn't make the whole religion terrible. That just means a select group of them made a terrible mistake. Don't you think other people in the Muslim religion felt ashamed of them too? Now let's think really hard here, kids. What was another situation where one group of people blamed an entire religion for all the bad stuff? Ohhh, yea. It was that little thing called The Holocaust. And that group that discriminated against that religion...weren't they considered bad people and strongly frowned upon? Yes, I do believe they were. Hmmm...I'm sensing some deja vu here...

So what does that make us? Just like them. And if we're just like those people, how do you think the rest of the world views us? How do you think our fore-fathers would feel about their country, a country founded on the belief that all men are created equal and that everyone has the right to their own religion? Do you think they'd be proud?

I know what you're thinking. "But, we're NOT like them! They killed the Jews! We don't kill Muslims! Yadda yadda yadda..." WRONG! We are just like them, whether you want to believe it or not. Yes, they killed them. But don't we kill them too when we ostracize them? Don't we kill them when we shout "Bomb!" at them or call them terrorists? I think we do.

And, you know, The Nazi's didn't think they were doing anything wrong either. They didn't see how they were the ones destroying their country, not the Jews. So maybe instead of pointing fingers all the time, we should take a look in the mirror.