What makes a religion right? What makes it just? Is it the scripture or is it the people who follow it? I think it's kinda both. In Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi and even in another graphic novel I read Maus by Art Spiegelman, religion plays a big roll in the why's and the wherefores of why things went on. Women being forced to cover their hair, being segregated and even executed because your Jewish, wtf over? I have dabbled in most religions, (which is how I came to the Asatru faith) and most scriptures have one common underlined principal: "Do unto others as you would have done unto you!" Bottom line, bar none, wake up and smell the coffee, this means "treat other people as how you would like to be treated yourself." Which is not limited but includes religious beliefs even if their views are difference than yours. How is it that tolerance is at an all time low when these simple words are at the heart of any spiritual scripture? How is it that two people of different faiths could not respect one anthers beliefs if they truly love each other? Maybe that's the problem, we don't understand what it is to love anymore as sentient beings, we only care about our views and perceptions of the world at hand, which is a travesty, as there is so much beauty in diversity.
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