Prodigal: People say that religion causes war.

Me: That is not always true.

This is from the book The Reason for God by Timothy Keller

This evidence seems to indicate that religion aggravates human differences until they boil over into war, violence, and the oppression of minorities.

There are problems with this view, however. The Communist Russian, Chinese, and Cambodian regimes of the twentieth century rejected all organized religion and belief in God. A forerunner of all these was the French Revolution, which rejected traditional religion for human reason. These societies were all rational and secular, yet each produced massive violence against its own people without the influence of religion.

Can we forget that the Nazis wanted to remove a whole race of people that had nothing to do with a religion. Society is so quick to point out mistakes in Christianity, but what about remembering the positives. There was a day when people told the truth, when people worked hard and people attempted to love their neighbor.

Even though this was not done perfect, it was still an idea to strive for. Now, white lies are the norm. Love means, only if I feel love first. Making quick money or lying about money really does not have any negative connotation to it. What if we just tried to be honest today. Just for today.

Daniel 6:12

Then they came near, and spake before the king concerning the king’s decree; Hast thou not signed a decree, that every man that shall ask a petition of any God or man within thirty days, save of thee, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions? The king answered and said, The thing is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not.

Jennifer Van Allen

www.theprodigalpig.com

www.faithincounseling.org