If your goal is to incrementally change them to be clones of you, you are destined for failure. If your goal is to learn, change, and renew global society for the better, it may be do-able to some extent.
Gem.. if I have ANY goal, or desire, related to our struggle against religious militancy, it is to further the belief that God does not want mankind to purvey his message (whatever the interpretation man draws from it) through physical violence.
If we can "infect" the various world religions with the belief that "Jihad", "Crusade", or "holy war" is a spiritual war focused on peacefully changing hearts and minds, through the weapons of love and human tolerance, we'll have achieved the victory.
However, on the other hand, I think I should add that, if we have any cause that justifies using violence, it would be to demonstrate our "intolerance for intolerance".
Hawk |
