Hiya... the title is a verse in the Lord's Prayer. But I'm not gonna post about religion per se, but how we concentrate on our difference instead of the common things we share.
It's no doubt everybody are born different. Difference and variation makes the world colourful. Different point of view, different philosophy, different doctrines, different race, different colour....
Can difference separates us? In Apartheid South Africa, there is designated beach for white and coloured, blacks. Same goes to the Southern States. Sometimes it is more than skin colour, like the Rwanda genocide. War among different religion, like Auto da fe. Ethnic cleansing. Even different classes can start a mass murder like Khmer Rouge. Do we really need to hate somebody who are different than us?
Like my earlier post on the Mormon missionary, why can we just love them as they are. Not shun them? Maybe it's because we like to use this word as an excuse: "We don't hate the criminal, we hate the crime". So it's not considered hate. Although we don't really hate them as most claim, we do propagate prejudice. Parents would warn their children not to come near to them.
Can we just embrace what we have in common? When I watched an episode of South Park, the one where the 3 main Abrahamic faith come together and worship together. That episode where Eric pulled a prank by painting polka dots on a cow. Although there are some stupid antics involved, if we look past it, why can't we find common ground and acknowledge it and be good to each other.
Why can't we just do that and agree to disagree on our differences?
The reason why I choose the verse above as a title is doesn't the verse sounds similar to A`ūdhu billāhi min ash-shaitāni r-rajīmi (أعوذ بالله من الشيطان الرجيم) which means I seek refuge in Allah from Shaitan.
Similar? And why are we cursing each other?
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