Recognizing Religious Realities Remain While a World Lost for the Want of Secularistic Values Cannot Achieve Peace

Submitted by M Tovey (United States), Aug 20, 2022 at 17:07

If there is one lesson to be learned while watching a world getting lost in globalistic secularistic pursuits while attempting to flee religious persecution in in abject terror of those who are imposing such terror in the name of religion, what is that object lesson?
Mankind fears that which it cannot control. Adding insult to injury, when imputing religious implications (supernatural perceptions affecting mortal responses), it cannot be helped to notice the natural impulse does not respond all that well and defense mechanisms of the pyschological sort are employed.
This occurs when humanity is influenced by those that claim a connection to religious imfluences and attempt to control others by asserting a special connection that would induce others to follow, whether true or not.
Thus the conundrum: where does peace of mind come in? In this modern setting, there are few choices.
From this observer's perspective. there is the millennia old offering of the love of God, made manifest by the two thousand year old message of the cross, salvation offered by the sacrifice of the Jewish Savior, Yeshua.
Hundreds of years later, arising from the religious melee of competing religious aspirations in the region, Islam arose to challenge and replace the Messianic message and commenced its imperialistic (ummah) aspiration to affect a world wide movement away from Christianity (still in play today); and the world responds by attempting on it own to divest any such allegiances to religion; but peace is still elusive.
That being demonstrated as the probable path to the destruction of mankind, it can be seen that religion in and of itself, cannot save humanity. Islam is embedded with ideological adherents of the Quran that will not let peace have its opportunity while in terror mode against democracies and oriental culture does not abide all that well with the occidental mindset. This is where the mystery of the Messianic message comes in and provides a path to a peaceful solution by offering salvation and a path to eternal fulfillment.
Properly followed, the Messianic message provides a path to love in peace; believe in Yeshua and be saved: does the pursuit in terror of the Quran offer this? The world is dying to know.

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