Muslims use this Arabic phrase to celebrate the conclusion of Ramadan. The first sighting of the new moon is taken as the end of the month long fast. In less than two weeks, Jews will celebrate Passover, the Exodus of the Israelites from slavery in Egypt. Catholic Christians started the 40 day period of Lent at the beginning of March, and will break the fast on Maudy Thursday, also known as the Last Supper. 

Most Christians will celebrate Easter and the Resurrection on 20 April, three weeks from now. All three the monotheistic faiths are intimately intertwined, yet seemingly at odds with each other. Instead of acknowledging that they all worship the same God, they continuously argue and bicker amongst themselves. God gets lost amongst all the noise and it ends up becoming about human ego and the desire to dominate and control. All three are guilty of this behavior. 

The acrimony playing out in the Middle East is testimony to the extreme lack of godliness. There is nothing holy about massacring over a thousand people and kidnapping hundreds more. There is certainly nothing remotely holy about killing 50 times this amount of people as revenge and retribution. 

Killing in the name of God is likely to increase over the next period, not decrease. A so-called holy book that teaches you that there has to be tremendous amounts of bloodshed, before some final conclusion to the human experience is reached, is not a holy book, but an unholy one. 

That’s ultimately the main difference between religion and spirituality. Theory and practice. Laws don’t make you holy, following rules don’t, neither do ceremonies or rituals. It matters very little what you wear on the outside, what matters is who you are on the inside.

Mar 31, 2025 4:34:23 pm