My God Can Beat Up Your God

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As an American, one of our most cherished rights is our freedom of religion. People have the right to believe in whatever they want. Whether it’s Jesus Christ, Allah, or Buddha, some people can be easily threatened by this, yet some admire it deeply. Even today with crimes being committed in the name of religious beliefs, stones cast at nonbelievers, and proselytizers conducting door to door recruitment, I believe this variety of spiritual ideals, religious or not, is the fastest growing threat to our society, and will be our termination.
Like most Americans, when I think of religious crime, I think of the terrorist attack on September 11th 2001 in New York City, New York. A day that few will forget, when the Islamic fundamentalist group Al-Qaeda destroyed the two towers of the World Trade Center, but if you look back to the year 1995, a Christian fundamentalist named Timothy McVeigh bombed the Alfred P. Murray Federal Building in Okalahoma City, Okalahoma. This was done in an act of revenge for the U.S. governments attack on the Brach Davidians in Waco, Texas led by a man named David Koresh, a self proclaimed God to his followers. When practiced safely theses two beliefs, Islamic and Christian don’t hurt anybody. When they’re taken to the extreme by a lunatic fringe, they become supremely dangerous. There is a huge difference from trying to make your point with persuasion and trying to make your point with pain and death.
Does the phrase “infidel” sound familiar? In more ways then one it means unbeliever, and has been in the world’s vocabulary for centuries. Almost every religion has gone through a stage were they would be so enmeshed in their own beliefs that any other religion is wrong, inaccurate, or just flat out evil. This kind of regimen still takes place today. The only thing that keeps it mildly tame is the governing laws over each country. For example: America’s constitution gives its people the freedom to bel...