Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world
If only. How great would that be? I'm not about to go off on a beauty queen "I want World Peace" thing, but how amazing would it be? There's so much fighting going on at the minute, that people don't even know what we're fighting for anymore.
How many lives do we have to lose before we can come to some sort of an agreement? We've all seen them... those portrait shots of the smiling soldiers on the news. But those men are dead now. They've been killed fighting wars over stupid, unnecessary things. They've left friends, wives, husbands, brothers, sisters, mums, dads and maybe even kids behind- all because they're brave enough to step up and serve their country.
Why can't the governments just take a step back and think: wait. What's this all about? What if it was their son or daughter, brother or sister? Would they change their mind then? Would they bring those brave men and women home?
Northern Ireland is crazy. No matter what happens, religion seems to be brought into it. Even in primary schools the children are asking each other if they're "cats" or "pigs." If you say you're a cat, then you're catholic, and pig mean's you're protestant. Why should 4-11 year olds be worried about this?
For those who don't know much about Northern Ireland, it went through a period throughout the 70's known as the troubles. Catholics and Protestants declared war on each other, and security went mental. However, people came to agreements and almost everything is calmed again.
However, people feel the need to pass on these troubles to their kids & grandkids and there's absolutely no need. A young police officer was killed just 4 days ago because of being a Catholic in the police force. A certain group didn't like this, so they stuck a bomb under his car? 25 years old he was. We all live in the same country, so why can't we just get along? People are using religion as an excuse for violence... they quite clearly don't give a toss about the whole "Christianity" aspect.
Being a realistic person, I can see that Protestants and Catholics will never exist alongside each other without the memory of the troubles. There'll always be the judgement when we hear a name that is clearly of a certain religion, or if we see someone wearing a certain uniform or sports top. It's something we can't stop, and we cannot change religion; but the hatred isn't needed, surely.
As I've said before, I'm not one for compromising beliefs, but when we consider the sacrifices that innocent people are making; surely compromise is the better option?
It's not even about religion anymore. It stopped being about religion in the seventies when that first bomb went off. If it was about their faith and what not, they wouldn't be killing each other because it wouldn't be morally correct. They're all imbeciles.
ReplyDelete"when we consider the sacrifices that innocent people are making; surely compromise is the better option?"
Sacrifices that innocent people are making for someone else's war.