Religion is part of the rich tapestry that is humanity and it’s history. Like politics, like wars, like diversity of country and culture it enriches us as Beings even while it rots and corrupts.

I know it’s popular to blame religion for all manner of ills. I feel that blame foolishly misplaced. At the base of every struggle, even those involving religion, are human emotions. The negative emotions of greed and fear and lust for power motivate manipulating vast numbers of a populous. Religion and the politics of power make that manipulation easy. People who assert that politics doesn’t manage this to the level of religion simply don’t know their history. We’re a bloody lot. Tyrants have inflicted more human suffering from seat of a regime than from the pulpit.

If you pull one thread or one colour in toto, from the whole of the weave of the tapestry you hopelessly harm the design and weaken the fabric.

We are both a product of what we have been and of what we can conceive of being.

If you don’t like the tapestry as it is, don’t pull the threads of the past. Find a way to reweave them more beautifully. You weave the future.