Of Catholics, Christians, Jews and Muslims.

Of Catholics, Christians, Jews and Muslims.

Short Story: Final game of the state basketball championships; everybody’s looking to the star player. The pressure is not really something to be scoffed at…and so he goes to a quiet corner, drops to his knees and prays, begging the good lord to let his team win…promising never to miss a practice session again, to get his grades up, to be a better person in general…
This time, the good lord actually answers! He tells the player, that he’d really love it if he did all the stuff that he promised, but at the same time, the other team was also asking for the same thing… How can the good lord play favourites?
So he offers him a compromise…he offers to make the game an honourable one, to make all the calls fair and all the decisions accurate.

Ok, kinda corny i know, but i did like it. Read that story somewhere, cant remember where right now, but it brings me to the title of this post..

I look around today and realize that the majority of the major conflicts today are between Christians, Jews and Muslims. And all are because all of us are cocksure that ours is the penultimate one true path.

The Muslim extremists are itching to slap a jehad on the infidels for the glory ofAllah…Our Catholic fanatics are just as willing to slaughter anyone that doesnot submit to the glory of “Our Father” and to protect their children form "Zionist propaganda". And the Jews are ready willing and able to annihilate anyone who so much as thinks of laying a finger on them. (In their defence though, they never start anything, although they have no qualms about finishing it.)

But I read somewhere, that if we were to trace back the the lineage of all three religions we come to one common ancestor: Abraham. And we’re all fighting for the alleged ‘glory’ of the same god, Abrahams god.

What the heck makes us think that any God, will help some of his people annihilate the others…? That we're his favourite? Maybe instead of praying for victory, we should be looking for tolerance...