Center for Reduction of Religious-based Conflict

OUR VIEW

From time immemorial conflicts have arisen because one did not like or agree with what another was doing or planning to do.  Or, because he wanted to change what the other was doing or the way he was living.  This scenario has been repeated millions of times in our history.  But, we haven’t learned from it.  It’s still happening today – all over the world.  Why?  Because we don’t profit from history, though it begs us to learn.  We haven’t accepted why these things happen or what we must do to change them.

In the final analysis, history is nothing more than philosophy teaching by examples.  And here, what we are talking about is a philosophy of life and of living together on a highly populated planet.  Too many in the world are taught – either by their parents, their school, their country or by custom or religion – to hang on their differences with others.  Examples abound.  Men and women easily see differences between themselves, but with more difficulty find their similarities.  Racial problems and turbulence are based on one or both races placing too much emphasis on their differences.  Ethnic differences can bring the same result.  Different political approaches to governing where one kind of government attempts to impose its approach to governing on other states can bring a similar result.  And it is so with religions as well.  Each religion is based on the concept that it has the answer to the mystery of life and death.  And since there is only one solution to any mystery, that means that when “my religion has the answer, all other answers are wrong”.  Thus, a major difference.  Overemphasis of this difference, over a long period of time, will bring in too many instances conflict; and continued conflict can and often does bring violence, with its ensuing tragic results.  We see it every day. But we are no closer to solving the problem now than we were hundreds of years ago.

The Center For Reduction of Religious-Based Conflict was formed to fill this void – to sensitize, educate the people to the terrible costs of religious-based conflict, to explain why this is so; and to offer long-term solutions currently not being exercised in the world.

The Center does not solve this problem.  You do!  We need your help in bringing our message to the peoples of the world so that we can begin to reduce and eventually eliminate religious-based conflict in the world.