I grew up in an Irish American household.   One side was Catholic the other Anglican.  My right hand wanted to shoot my left and my left wanted to bomb my right.  Actually not, but the illustration serves.  Imagine, both of these are catholic religions and except for who is boss and a few "minor" issues like women and gays they cannot be told apart.  Yet they managed to kill three to four thousand British and Irish. 

Today it is the Middle East where Jews and Muslims, Muslims and other Muslims, Christians and everybody are all duking it out.

In India the Hindus and the Muslims are going at it.  In Africa it is Christians and Muslims.  Some Tibetan Buddhists want to war against China, but unless they can find a nuke, the numbers are against them, like several billion to one. 

Then there are the smaller religions busily trying to spread their disease.  The Mormons are infiltrating Latin America and trying for Russia.  The Scientologists having terrorized the IRS into naming their drug addled fiction a religion and now are trying to tell everyone they are for peace.

 Ever notice how they are all for peace but if you speak against them you are a blasphemer, infidel, apostate, suppressive person, or satanist? 

One religion believes a guy hung on a cross and rose from the dead.  Another thinks their main guy opened the ocean.  Another says their guy is such a big deal if you draw him you must die.  Another likes to talk about space wars in Peru or was it Chile?  Another once believed in plural marriage and organized pedophilia and says they don't anymore but their home territory is filled with both. 

And this is what men are inspired by and die for? 

 I was propelled to write this short diatribe by the goings on around the world.  Gaza leads today.  Now there is the embodiment of conundrum.  Two religions, one born of the other, fighting it out. 

Frankly, if I was a Jew and had rockets falling on my town, I'd shoot too.  And frankly, if I was a Palistinian and was fenced in with the sea at my back and no where to go, no work, no hope, I would shoot too. 

As an outsider, I have two new SAT questions.   Israel is to Gaza, as the  ________ were to Warsaw?  And, Hamas is to  ______, as the Himmler's and the SS were to the final solution?

I see these things and throw up my hands, and just plain throw up too.  I could not even begin to see a solution until I stepped outside the box.  In my mind I took away the religions, removed the differences and let the mothers, fathers and children go on their ways.   Imagine that.