There's no hatred like religious hatred

       

         For the last year what has played out in Russia's war in Ukraine has made it much easier to identify the "good guys" and the "bad guys."  What is being played out in the Middle East now between Hamas and Israel is harder to identify which side is represented as good or bad.  The killing of innocent people on both sides has to be condemned.  What should not be overlooked is the religious basis for the conflict.  When you have religions that believe God supports their actions you have the basis for hatred that leads to cruelty in wars.  Retribution and revenge can blind even normally moral people to doing immoral things.  The first piece of propaganda that is put out in a war is that your enemy is subhuman and not deserving of living.  You can hear and see that on both sides of the present conflict. Killing civilians is justified on both sides because the other side has killed civilians.  Killing children in Israel does not justify killing children in Gaza or the other way around.  Killing children can never be justified or excused.

     Religion which is created out of ignorance and dogma has always been a threat to the stability and morality wherever it has existed.  To believe that only you and your fellow religious believers have some special place in the eyes of your God gives you the justification to murder non-believers.  This has been repeated throughout history too many times.  Only when religious belief does away with the belief that they have a special place in God's eyes can different religions co-exist.  Of course, this would negate the need for religion as your moral compass.

P.S.

    No adult has a right to harm a child for what ever cause in which they believe.