Religious Analysis

In light of the extremist Islamic fundamentalist groups led by men like Osama bin Laden and other Muslim radicals, the Islamic religion has earned a not so invalid reputation as a religion of violence, bloodshed, and the murder of innocent people in the name of Allah and the promise of spending eternity with 72 virgins as a reward for martyrdom. The terrorist acts of September 11, 2001, solidified this image as have the multiple attacks on innocent Israeli's by Islamic suicide bombers. So, too, we see the Roman Catholic Church is being rocked by finally being exposed as a haven to pedophiles of both sexual preferences for decades � and being implicit in concealing it from the public and law enforcement officials on every level from Cardinal to priest. However, these events only underscore the fact that belonging to an organized religion or establishing an organized religion does not mean all those who follow it adopt it in the way it is intended ideally. It also underscores the fact that there are good and bad humans of all faiths and merely adopting the beliefs and attitudes of a faith does not make one all good. All too often religious leaders like Osama bin Laden pervert the original text and ideal tenets of the core religion around which they fashion their lunacy and destruction. All religions are worthy of being used for spiritual comfort, strength, healing, and love in their core ideology. For example, the Islamic religion and the

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