The problem with all peace movements is that they call for the “interfaith dialogue”. “Everyone” knows that all religions are “beautiful” and as long as people have the tolerance for the opinions of the other, all is hunky-dory. But anyone who ever experienced a religious indoctrination or attempted a dialog with a person who was abused by a religious indoctrination, knows too well that the organized religions are hierarchical and centralized mind and life control structures. The survivors of the mind abuse know that religious hierarchies produce fighting soldiers, obedient armies that can be unleashed on an enemy at a moments notice. In fact Michael Vick was merely reenacting with dogs what humans practiced for centuries, confined and chained to an ideology humans are made to fight each other, blow themselves up, burn and pillage for the glory of god and for the entertainment and survival of a queen bee, or a grand inquisitor. Certainly human fighting and conquest preceded religions but there is no doubt that religions are the power and cohesive forces behind most confrontations today. The interfaith dialog is a hoax because the grand inquisitors recognize that their ideology flies in the face of reason. The only hope for the survival of a mythology and the supporting elaborate casuistry is to designate a well defined enemy; removing an enemy from the religious equation would immediately lead to the collapse of the particular creed. So the only real pro-peace proposition is an anti-faith dialog. And here is how Christopher Hitchens puts it:
Just like with communism the texts have glimpses of truth (some texts), the love, the allegories, the metaphors, the imagination, the poetry, the rigor of the law, the sense of prophetic indignation and justice are all real. But then humans take hold of the creed and start building a social structure on top of an ideology and it quickly descents into the valley of shadows, greed, lies, nepotism, violence, craving for money, power and abuse.
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