Written by Prof Ilchi Lee
What about the differences between Catholics and Protestants? Christians and Jews? Blacks and whites? It is just a matter of different ways of eating the same bowl of rice.
Am I oversimplifying things? I wish I were. But in the greater scheme of things, our most dramatic and historical differences turn out to be the most trivial. But it is a triviality with brutal and tragic results. If we added up the numbers of human beings killed because of these differences, the zeros would fill this page. How about the cruelty? The Crusaders slitting the bellies of women and children alike in their religious fervor. The Catholic and Protestant mobs rounding up and forcing the Jews to kiss the hind end of the hogs in the middle of the town square before burning them to death. The Romans forcing the Christians into an arena to be brutalized and eaten alive by a pack of hungry lions in front of thousands of crazed spectators. The invading Japanese army cutting off the ears and noses of the residents of a Korean town for daring to put up a fight—a mound of earth where the cut-off ears and noses are buried sits in the middle of Tokyo today as a testament to human cruelty. Read articles by Ilchi Lee
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