A friend of
mine told me recently that if he ever has a chance to preside over a country as
a president, he will enact secularity or force atheism on every citizenry of
that nation. He said because “religion” has been the main cause and force
behind most of our societal unrest, dispute and diversity to mention the least.
My friend believes that religion that is supposed to be a unifying force has
otherwise proven the opposite. At first, I wasn't sure if I should agree or disagree
with my friend, because whatever I decide has to be justified convincingly. After
I had pondered deeply to my friend’s opinion, I also affirmed the fact that religion
has been the usually proclaimed reason for so many insurgencies nowadays. It is
the reason why so many children have been made orphans. The main reason why so
many women have been turned widow. And why so many family has been made
homeless. It is also the so reason the peace in some community has been
forcefully exchanged with brutal bedlam. It also the sole reason why the rivers
in some cities have been flowing with reddish water heavily mixed with human
blood. When I remember all of these, I was closely forced to agree with my friend,
while in retrospect I realize it will be too unwisely erroneous to push the blame
of those ruthless atrocities on a divinely designed and Godly structured system
(Religion). Something else is responsible; something yet unfathomable by either
my friend or I myself.
