Fogs of war

Religion and politics have always got entangled with each other and lead mankind down a precipice. What we see happening with our world today is familiar- things that have collluded between kings and bishops for generations. Religion is being abused for just one thing and one thing alone- power. And power is nothing but a fog that clouds clear thinking and vision.

Think people think! Let's think and do what we do! We have that amazing talent- why not make use of it? We need to think for ourselves ... if we allow the mullahs, rabbis, bishops or Rupert Murdoch to think for us- we are perpetually doomed. Slavery did not end all over the world, it just took a new form. We thought we were free but that was just our imagination.

Thomas Paine once said- "My country is my world, and my religion is to do good!"[Link]

Media has become the nastiest WMD of this generation! Everyone with an ambition for money and power vies for some of the lime-light. Over and over again they sugar-coat the messages to tell us which soap is right for our skin, what vehicle is right for us, what medicines are good for my heart, and who in the world is evil.

Believe it or not, majority of what we hear on the media channels today is not what it really is- but what they want us to believe it is. And they have their own reasons to do so. You see- once there is corruption or wrong doing in one section of the society, it percolates into every other section; and everyone who gets his hands dirty- colludes due to fear, shame, greed, guilt and all things evil. And then they ignorantly hurt themselves and others in the process- until one of them has the courage to stand up, clear the fog, and think clearly.

- Some of my thoughts blended in with former British MP Tony Benn's.