Religions effect in the modern world is harmful
Uttar Tandon glanced up from his corn field outside Sr nagar to gaze at the midday sun. It was a hot day, and Tandon could hear the sound of gunfire in the hills to the north. For the last week or so the Pakistani geurillas had been harassing Indian positions near the city. Although the media was making the recent conflict out to be of major international importance, Tandon saw the fighting as practically a routine event. The corn farmer had been living outside Sr nagar for all his life, and for the last fifty years he had witnessed various conflicts between India and Pakistan occurring on a fairly regular basis. He had lost friends to these wars and had even just lost his son during the most recent round of fighting. Tandon's loss was great, but he knew that the sacrifice was necessary for India to reclaim that was rightfully theirs: Kashmir. For all his life Uttar Tandon had disliked the Muslims of Pakistan, and he felt confident that when India had built their first nuclear weapon that Pakistan would give back what they had stolen. He now knew that the religious fanatics of Pakistan would concede nothing and that the only solution would be war. Tandon, however, had learned to accept war as a necessary evil - as had s
Were it not for religion, this time could be spent working. Whether it be the Crusades, the Inquisition, or the Witch Hunts, religion has also been a poster child for the flaws of a mob mentality. After World War II the Jews who fled Germany had no place to go, which led to the winners of the war deciding to make a country for them in the Middle East. The Inquisition was an endeavor by the Catholic Church which sought to "Root out non-believers. Religion is amazingly successful in creating prejudice between religions. We must decide whether or not this enormous institution has a place in our modern world. When religion was needed in the past to pray for health, in modern times we have, well, um, modern medicine to cure the diseases with or without divine assistance. Religion also serves to unite people.
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