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All Lives Matter

What have we become?

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All Lives Matter

"Someday, I have no doubt, the dead from today's wars will be seen with a similar sense of sorrow at needless loss and folly as those millions of men who lie in the cemeteries of France and Belgium - and tens of millions of Americans will feel a similar revulsion for the politicians and generals who were so spendthrift with others' lives." - Adam Hochschild

One world. One miracle. One life. Everyone and everything on this planet has received these three things. Sometimes the world we live in now feels so much more complicated than the world we once lived in before. Think about it. There were cavemen and there were animals. After which we discovered science, art, religion. They say we evolved. "They" being the scientists, propogandists, preachers and politicians etc. But have we as humans gone so far to find out where we are going rather than looking at what we have become? First came extremeism, then came racisim, after which came cultural intolerance. Have we become so Ethnocentric with who we believe in, and where we reside that we as a race have decided to overlook what we can loose from all this fighting amongst each other? There was a time when we used to trade an item/service for another item/service ( The barter system). We found a flaw in that so we evolved into a piece of paper (Currency) that we as a race have given meaning or value, to being exchanged for those same goods and services. Yet today it seems like we have evolved to the point where it's no longer, goods for goods or cash for goods. Rather it's a life for a life. Why is it that we have now evolved our society into a supreme justice where we compare one life to another? We condone this behavior by racially dividing slurs and in some extreme cases, extreme religious beliefs. Everytime you look at the news, may it be the announcements that are being shown on the television screen or social media posts going viral, majority of the time it is about one extremist of a religion pointing fingers at another religion or extremist.

Let me make one thing very clear. No Religion Justifies Murder.

Examples being:

1. Christianity: In everything, do to others as you would have them do to you; for this is the law and the prophets. Matthew 7:12.

2. Islam : Not one of you truly believes until you wish for others what you wish for yourself. The Prophet Muhammed, Hadith.

3. Hinduisim: This is the sum of duty: Do not do to others what would cause pain if done to you. Mahabharatha 5:1517.

These are just a few examples that certain biased media reporters tend to overlook when they go on their rants about religious segregation.

I am no politician. I have no political or hidden agenda. All I am is a concerned citizen of this world that has been over run by biased thinking and selfish endeavors. Think about it, how superficial it is when one human being who posses the same heart, brain, eyes and features as another human being and still wants to claim superiority based on the location they were born. Just because your parents decided to be together in one part of the world you feel superior than someone who's parents decided to be together in another part. You are somewhere where there are resources and a better life and still want to decline someone trying to escape all the hardship they are having in their city because you are better? In God's eyes we are all equal. Isn't that what is preached all around. Then why is it that we do not treat everyone equal? Money, status, caste, religion, skin color, political standing all this differentiating rubbish, was not made by God. It was made by us humans and it is time that all this segregation stops.

ALL LIVES MATTER.


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