"Preaching Peace, waging war"

A Hindu perspective.... for balance...

The manipulation of devotion has been the foremost strategy in this context. Religions are profoundly rational. Rationality is at the root of all forms of human freedom, especially our spiritual freedom. Conditioning is the opposite of freedom. Human beings who are religiously conditioned to behave unthinkingly. This is misrepresented as devotion. No attempt is made to distinguish between devotion to God and devotion to one's religious establishment. The greatest danger we can invite on ourselves is to mistake the will of the religious establishment for the will of God. This spiritual illiteracy is packaged as devotion. This is the reason why most people express their religious devotion by hating and hurting people of other faiths and not by loving them. God's will is that we love one another, because we cannot in honesty love God if we do not love each other. The religious elite makes us hate and hurt each other as expressions of our devotion to our religions.

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