[SoldierDad]

Religious polarization is part of many world conflicts, he said, including those involving Israel and Iran, "but it's never discussed. I consider it the story of our time, what religion is doing to us. But there are very few people calling a spade a spade."

Religion is an ideology, a concept, a vehicle, a way of understanding our place in the world God created. Religion does not do anything to anyone. It is people who commit acts against people (sometimes in the name of religion), not Religion. Now, that is calling a spade a spade.

[Xenophon450]

Ah but there is one thing you have left out.

People do indeed commit heinous acts upon one another. However in a wider scheme of things Satan is the King of this world. Until God returns in might, Satan will direct the events of this world into the deepest recesses of hell. Why do you think culture is taking it's downward flush? It will only get worse before it gets better. Satan will decieve multitudes, as he has already done. Many people find the idea of Satan coordinating world events to be silly, I tell you the truth, if he is the king of this world as the bible states, God has let him have this power.