Shoutbox

I guess it's part of the human mankind to somehow reject other's points of view while defending the own ones. We've seen this in the past and we see it now. Many Northamericans may hate the Islam, as well as Catholics may hate Protestants in Ireland (as I just said). But this is bound to the supremacy of the religions in history and how they obligated others to be converted (Spanish Catholic Kings, f.i.).

But there are always other examples, like Germany where a half is Catholic and the other half is Protestant and the coexistence is peacefull between them. Although there still exists implicit or explicit anti-semitism, but it has luckily gone down dramatically in the last half century.

In all, mankind should learn to respect other's religions, like Buddhism does from its principles. It would make the world a more peaceful place to live.