The root of all evil

Darn. Just when I was just getting into the swing of blogging again and resuming my blogging life, I was hit with the flu bug so I was down with fever, cough and a blocked nose for the last week or so.  Now, I’m back to right where I started.

Anyway, that’s not the topic I wanted to blog about today. Today, it’s about all the nasty stuff I’ve been reading around the blogs and news and whatnots.

One of it…It is rather disheartening to read people dissing each other over a controversial issue of a group of elderly people being evicted from their lifelong homes. Although it seemed like a religious issue, I see it more as a human issue than anything else. This verse from the Bible was even quoted:

‘For the love of money is the root of all evil’

While this is true, I’d say the real root of all evil is the very basic, evil nature of humans. Just look around you. Why are there wars?

It is for:

Power

Fortune

Religion

And who made it happen? Not money because these are merely thin pieces of printed paper or minted coins. Not God because nobody has seen God going around bombing people, has they?

Yep. It is humans. And it is humans that blame everything on everything but themselves. Let’s see.

A war over some trivial stuff erupts. One group says it is what their God told them. Yeah, sure. Right. As if. While another group says it is because they need to fight for their rights. All this happens because humans themselves want it to happen so they use anything as an excuse to make it happen.

Then, when we talk about the collapse of the brand new stadium. It is an act of God? HAH. Far from it. More like some humans decided to skimp a few ingredients and end up with a collapsed roof.

And the controversial eviction issue in Penang road involving a high placed religious person? Another act of God? Wrong. God don’t need more land for anything. God don’t need land at all. Period. Some say it’s that high placed religious person’s fault. While others defended him like mad. I say it is again another human problem. It could have been handled in a better way but it wasn’t. So, who’s right and who’s wrong? Who knows? To one group, they are right. To another, they are the ones who are right.

So, you see. The root of all evil are humans after all. We all have our differences. We all have our different views. Different tastes. Different perceptions. Different believes. And our main problem is that we chose to fight about our differences most of the time instead of working to understand the other man’s perspective. Or at most, practice tolerance.

That’s why there are wars over religion. Because one refuse to understand the other.

That’s why there are people going all up in arms against people who blog about their own personal opinions/ feelings/ views  that they don’t agree with.

People have long forgotten that we ARE ALL DIFFERENT. And seemed to have forgotten the way to overlook these differences and live their own lives without trying to force others to change to their perception.

One Malaysia? HAH. That’s a real bad joke, if you ask me. How can people be one if we are all infinitely different? How can the people be one when the differences are brimming with hatred and discrimination threatening to boil over and erupt in a terrible war nobody wants to happen but are not willing to prevent?

Really. Human kind only have one similarity. They have red blood. But the red of the blood is never seen while the color of the skin sparks all kinds of fights.

So, yep. The root of all evil is human kind itself. And though there are some saints around, these you can count with one hand. Evil doers? Uncountable.

And no, this is not going to turn into a religious post crap telling people to start praying and repent and all that nonsense. I don’t believe in preaching religion to anyone. So, go forth. go cheat. Go corrupt. Go do evil. Whatever.

I only believe in one thing. One reap what one sow so be careful what you sow in this life because you will definitely face the consequences in future.

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