Blind hate An Essay
By: Casey Daniel Southards
Page 1, An essay about the hatred and intolerance in the World.
Listening and aware of the World around me, as I move down the side walk. I make my way into a small coffee-house, seeking a cup of morning tea. After receiving my brand I find a relaxing chair. As I sit, I think. What has this World allowed it's self for a standard. Men breeding hate and killing each other, and for what? My recurring conclusion, was for the lack of tolerance.
All to often I have found that people have a hatred for what they fear and/or do not understand. I have come to believe that most find it easier to take facts at face value. The lack of evaluation and research turn these facts all to often into falsehoods. These falsehoods all to often become understood as facts. In this lack of understanding lay the roots that breed racism, religious intolerance and cultural divide.
As I go about my daily responsibilities, I find myself within one social collection after another. As I gather the words floating around me from fellow humans. It always amazes me as to the lack of knowledge that is released. I hear comments such as; all those Muslims are terrorists or all black people are uneducated. This is the kind of close-minded rhetoric that leads to hatred. Intolerants is a condition that is taught in many countries by many cultures. The sad fact, is that it has deep roots.
In centuries past there were many divides created in the World. Many do to the difference in religion. Most do to the difference in culture and often due to skin color.
During the early modern period between the late fourteen hundreds to the early seventeen hundreds. A complete lack of understanding and tolerance by the church, lead to a mass witch-hunt. This resulted in captures that most often lead to painful torture and horrific executions. At times the inquisitors would come to a small town and leave it empty. The men, women and children all accused, all executed. The reality of these actions were that all the people that were murdered, were all Christians.
On March 23rd of 1933 a campaign was put into motion by the Nazi Party to put Adolf Hitler in a seat of power. On August 19th, 1934 they did. On September 1st 1939 the Nazi's began there War by invading Poland. This lead to millions of people being killed, due to there race, religion, and/or cultural status. It was believed that the Jewish, the disabled, the mentally ill, Freemasons, homosexuals, Jehovah witnesses, and Romani, (to name a few) were not worthy of life. So they were put to death in gas chambers, shot or made to work until they died of starvation and disease. All out of hatred. In the United States, we took the homes and possessions of all the Japanese-American citizens and locked them all in work camps due to fear. Fear leads to hate and hate leads to stupidity.
In the present day there is an on going battle between the religious and those of secularism. Secularists choose to live free of religious rules. They choose to make choices based on there own ambitions and desires. While the religious choose to live by a code or set of rules. The secularists wants to be free to choose, to make choices that they see fit for themselves. While on the other hand the religious work to condemn and enforce there way of life on everyone. This is an example of intolerance. Though the religious should not have to live the way of the secularist, the secularists should not be forced to live the way of the religious.
When all is said and done, I ask myself. Why do we find it easier to hate then to care for one another. Why do we feel that it is best to remove that which is strange or different from the face of the Earth. If we would only, if just for a few seconds, stop and view those differences from another set of eyes. We may just learn that together our differences may become the solution to the hatred and intolerance in the World.
Paul : This article was copied from booksie.com
