I Don’t Understand Their Religion

… I met three groups of people with three different religions. The first group invited me to their holy place, their place of worship, they ask me to read their sacred book. They told me to sit in their midst. They said their religion is the best and they are the only good one. They said I must ask other people to join them. I observed them, most of them are not kind. Not all of them, but enough to get me concerned. They have no empathy, they don’t feel another human. They gossip, backbite and are exclusive. They are covetous, greedy for filthy lucre. They dissmiss and beat their wives. They trample on the weak. They still do some good, but all these other things happen in their midst. I don’t understand their god, I don’t understand their religion.

I met the second group, they said they are the best, they are the chosen one, they are superior to every other. They hate strangers, but they will still go into strangers land and plunder them. They like to go on missionary work and show pictures of their good deeds. They are fulfilled as long as they are seen as the giver. Equality with others is troubling to their soul. They are really cold. I was invited to their midst but they made me to sit in a little corner. I could still observe them. They are not superior at all, they are definitely different but not any better. They have believed their narratives and others have bought into it as well. They are not kind people and they don’t care. They believe they are the only ones that will make the promise land. I don’t understand their god, neither do I understand their religion.

I meet a third group, everyone told me they are the evil ones, that they belong to the dark side. They do not claim to be anything and they did not invite me any where. They did not insist I read any sacred book and they did not insist I join them. They are not perfect, had their quirks like every other human being. Generally they were kind and seek to do good. They were not grabbing or covetous. They were not exclusive or discriminating. They accepted all as they come. They shunned evil and unkindness to fellow human. They seek to live to a moral standard that respect other humans. They are loving, caring and pleasant to be around. Yet they are meant to be the bad ones. I am perplexed, I don’t understand their god or their religion.

I prefer the pleasant ones!