Ways of the World: Chapter 24

A section that I found to be very interesting was the section on religious alternatives to fundamentalism. I found it interesting because the way that the countries and the different religions that inhabited these countries were willing to come together and meet to discuss their different ideas to gain understanding and hopefully come to establish peace. I feel that this is exactly what needs to happen in order to be able to establish a global peace. There have already been too many wars in the past between nations because there was a difference in religion or ideology, by coming to accept other ideas and religion there will be a greater peace established. In the past religions have tried to convert others with different ideas to share the same ideas so that they could be "saved", this caused conflict as well as distrust amongst nations, which led to wars. The acceptance of one global religion and the destruction of all others would be impossible to achieve therefore making the only possible solution to be agreeing to disagree on the matter, through acceptance and understanding of others and their cultures. Unfortunately this solution is easier to be said than done and in order to accomplish this there would be a lot of hard work and cooperation, which is hard to achieve due to the already present resentment between nations. I hope that some day this will be accomplished and a global piece could be established.