If the goal of believing in a higher power is to show us that we are all connected, we are all here for a reason, and we are all part of something greater than us, then why do we use our holy books to justify hate? We have created systems of persecution based on passages in the Bible and Qur’an. We have started wars in the name of Jesus and Muhammad, as if they sent us on a mission to ruin everything nice. We’ve sat in the ivory towers of our religions and used these doctrines to kill millions of people over centuries, all around the world, and that is an everlasting shame.
