Are You Religious?

        Matthew 5:9 Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called the sons of god.
"We can bomb the world to pieces but we can't bomb it into peace." Michael Franti
         I just have never been able to wrap my mind around some religious peoples support of war and lack of understanding for anything different then themselves.
         I don't know of one religion that supports war.
      We call our selves a god fearing nation. If so and especially if your a christian. How can you support war or even the death penalty? How can you be intolerant of someone who is different from you? The bible says Thou shalt not kill, love your neighbor, don't judge.
        All religions tell you in one form or another to treat others as you would want to be treated.
     It would seem we are anything but a god fearing nation. We try to force our way of life on others who are different from us. We are at least one of if not the major arms dealer in the world.  Prejudice and intolerance runs rampart in the country.
         Here's a question for you. What if we had spent just as much time teaching Osama Bin Laden how to feed and take care of his people as how to fight the Russians?  Here's another thing. For those of you who remember communism and the Berlin Wall, it was not bombs and war that brought down communism, it was consumerism. They wanted our way of life, our Levis and other products they couldn't get.
       Peace, teaching, love, compassion, understanding, nurturing and giving are the way of a truly god loving people.