No progress will be made as long as religion and politics (two sides of the same coin) hold such power over personal and community life. Politics seeks to give one side an advantage over another for personal gain, religion does the same thing but uses arbitrary, fake reasoning as a driver, ultimately duping otherwise well-meaning people into fighting on the front lines for a few puppeteer-like people or organizations to hold all the power. This most often happens at the expense of those well-meaning people. They will live in abject poverty while the solicitors of their cause are bathed in riches and power.
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Date: 2010-03-02 04:02 pm (UTC)