East West - salman Rushdie

“Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.”(Arthur Shopenhauer). If one could train people how to think, he/she could control their thoughts, actions, and beliefs. Thus, religion gives one or a few selected men the power over millions of others; and power corrupts. Although one associates religion with good, holy and pure, it is not always used for pure causes. While …

…Kabir 6 be used to change people for the better, as well as how religion can give people hope. Although religion can be used in both a positive and negative manner, if used in an altruistic and true form it cannot be harmful. Religion was not meant to be used as a weapon by the Khomenis and Hitlers, it was not meant to give corrupt power hungry men the control over masses or people-or was it?