In the name of religion…again!!!!

And again there is bloodshed in the name of religion. How wrong, how sad, how insane? I have seen this, read about this and felt sorry for this, almost all my life. Which Country am I from and what religion I follow that is irrelevant. What matters is that I was created as the highest of all the creation; I was created a human being.

I was reading news about the recent incidents and also the comments, individual responses to the incidents as cited in the news. Sadly a huge majority of the people posting those comments are angry. Irrespective of the faith they follow or nationality they belong to. Anger seems to be the most predominant emotion these days along with intolerance. What happened to the love and the peace and harmony? What happened to the principles that were taught as a basic learning by any religion of the world?

Honest opinion, the only religion prevalent these days seems to be hatred. Any country one is from, any popular religion one follows, any holy book one may read any place of worship one may visit, but most seem to be following one religion, the religion of HATE. It is like a virus, it spreads itself. Born out of ignorance and intolerance. It is truly mediaborne, very infectious and very dangerous.

I have seen movies about dooms day and also seen shows on discovery and National geographic talking about the end of the world. They talk about the ultimate storms and tsunamis, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, super bug epidemics and so many other possibilities of this world coming to an end. And seeing the news these days I feel the dooms day prophecies are not wrong and thinking that we are close to that day is not incorrect. But the source of that destruction is not going to be any of the natural calamities or storms. We, the people will destroy the whole World very soon with always spreading; media and social media fed super ignorant hate.

“With great power comes great responsibility” so I heard being said in the Spiderman movie. Social media and easy, open, unstoppable, recent (to the last second) access to information from all over the globe is a great power. We can use it to help and heal and build and grow and develop and strengthen the globe. Not only for us humans but for all what Mother Nature has given us. Thankfully a few of us, who understand the great responsibility that this great power has put on our shoulders, are doing exactly that. But a vast majority just got this power and got it for so cheap, almost free that they would not learn the responsibility that it brings. Sadly most news channels, newspapers other media providers are no exception to ignoring the responsibility that the power of global reach has put on their shoulders.

Hope it is not too late before people realize that responsibility.

Hope none of us has to see the times that Pulitzer Prize winner writer Cormac McCarthy has mentioned in his book “The Road.”

Epilogue: Looking for a savior for all and sincerely I will not even ask which popular religion figure he or she would resemble. But until  that savior comes (or may never come), the responsibility is on us. With Great Power comes great responsibility and history can tell that the power current generation has is way too great than any generation in the past had held.