What is this World Coming to? God Help Us All

There was this topic in yahoo about Muslim women who apparently created peace in their town by launching a "sex strike". Their husbands, at least for the time being, came stopped the fighting and came home. That's good. Bravo to the women. Okay, done.

What is disturbing is the comment of this one guy in the comment panel saying "Let them Kill themselves...blah blah.." and saying "Allah is waiting for them in hell with many virgins..." It was a blasphemous and ignorant comment. And since, it's exactly those kind of comments that breeds inter-religious hatred that I decided to step in and explain to him that Allah, whom the Muslims call God and the God we Christians and Catholics alike are actually one and the same.(The difference is Muslims don't acknowledge Jesus as the Son of God. But I left that part out since that wasn't necessary to make my point.) And you wouldn't believe how many thumbs down I got in such a short amount of time. Oh, the stupidity and ignorance of the Filipinos of our generation. Here I am trying to quell the fire of hate between Muslims and Christians by providing vital information to the uninformed, and yet I get booed, while the one who recklessly and ignorantly posted that hate comment gets thumbs ups. Both he and his crowd are oblivious to the fact that his comment and their simple approval of it are enough to fuel another blood feud between the long-time rival religions, the Muslims and Christians.

I believe that sufficient and proper information can put an end to misunderstandings. But with people being ignorant to information, what will this world come to? True not every bit of information can is true. Some are false, fabricated, and created to spread chaos thru misinformation. I understand those kind of sentiments, but would it hurt or be a waste of time to do some research? - a perfect oppurtunity to learn something new and see different points of view. And with the number of people today who are committed to find the truth about everything, or the number of truths that have already been established, the chances of stumbling upon misinformation is significantly lowered. So why then? Why the thumbs down, even before trying to find the truth? Do the Filipinos today not value knowledge? Would they rather have heresays? Are they content in living their lives only for themselves; to live just a good or comfortable life? - shunning their own personal responsibility in contrubuting to and making a better society. Well, if that is so then we will have no place in our changing world. We will all fade away, insignificant to the eyes of others and be just another part of the archeological records. But before disappearing we will experience the ridicule and be discriminated by others. They will call us barbaric, they will call us uncivilized. We will, once again, be called an inferior race. And then and only then, when the traces of our society have been eradicated, will our great but tainted name Filipino be spared, forgotten and can only be found as a reference in historical and archeological textbooks. That is doomed to be the future of our race, if we do not change. True our genes, our genetic lineage may remain...but they will not be Filipino. That will be our end. The end of Filipino culture, heritage and society that Rizal was not able to foresaw - an end that will be, if we do not change. God help us all.