Since the beginning of time.

If you are religious you could get offended reading this article, so please don’t read any further. This article is just a thought and does not mean to demean any religion or group or sect.

From the time history has been documented, war has always been written to be fought between good and the evil. But if history is written by the victors they will always have to be on the good side isn't it?

The problem I see as a reason causing most problems are not good or bad, but a totally different reason. There is a very basic underlying reason that fires every unrest, uprising, coup, revolt, battle or war. The reason is the feeling of every group that they are special or superior to the other in some way or the other. We Indians take immense pride in our history and culture and feel that we are special. India is a complex story, because there was no India before a few centuries, it was merely a name written within the boundary drawn by imperialism.

Feeling special, because of Religion is the most dangerous of them all, because religion is beyond all logic and cannot be reasoned out like math or geography. Things have to be done the way they have to be done because the scriptures said so. Religion is needed to herd the complex animal nature of man and I have no doubts about it. But when the same becomes a reason for someone to feel special the problem begins. I have read a little from the bible and it makes more sense to me because it applies to the current sense better than my religion. But I just couldn’t help notice that it believes that it is THE religion and that following any other religion is a mortal SIN and is punishable with hell. As far as I know Islam believes the same things too, that Mohammed was the son of god and not Jesus and Jews believe that neither of them are the son of god but just prophets and still continue to wait for their messiah. All three groups with common books, each believing they are special have fought their crusades and their Jihads. When each of these religions has felt they are special they have done caused enough damage to almost wipe humanity from the face of earth. Its not just these religions, every religion has in its own way done enough damage to itself and the others in the name of GOD. In the Middle Ages if only there were nukes on the battle inventory.


Feeling special, because of RACE is another dangerous thing, the most recent disaster being the Aryan supremacy theory of the German’s. If only Hitler reversed his Nazi party symbol he would achieved what he wanted to by unintentionally connecting RACE and RELIGION starting with a definite victory in Africa and Middle-East. Hutu’s and the Tutsi’s being another naked fact for racial cleansing. A report claims that the Hutus and the Tutsis were all once together and the British separated them based on physique to divide and rule them and gave one group advantages so they would fight the other and stay divided.

Feeling special, because of SKIN color is another thing. Apartheid, civil war in the US, etc all stemming out of color. Black is the presence of Melanin and white the absence off.

There are sub-religions, faith, sub-castes, language, etc which have caused everything from the Reservation issue to the English only shops vandalized in Bangalore.

I think that problems arise in this world the moment any group starts feeling special because they were born special or when they start feeling they are the chosen ones.