Marx summed it up: "! Religion is the opium of the people " The truth of this almost trivial theorem proving in the land of the three monotheistic Religions. Here, where all three religions clash with each other and live (have to) and bicker literally around every inch.
dispute in Jerusalem the various Catholic churches for the possession of the Holy Sepulchre; fight Jews and Muslims, who then has the oldest claim to the Temple Square; i n Bethlehem argue again the various Catholic churches to the tiny grotto should have done in Jesus's first cry. Even for the right to which "old bearded man" (also known as Patriarch) should invade because on Christmas Eve as the first in the Church of the Nativity, was once fought stubbornly (now Is it provided a fixed protocol).
In Hebron argue to this day Jews and Muslims at the hands of the "Cave of the Patriarch Abraham" (Heb. Ma `arat HaMachpalah ): a gaping stone buildings from the time of Herod, where the tombs of Abraham, his wife Sara, the children of Isaac and Isamail and their wives Leah and Rebecca are. Hebron itself is a "dead" town, about 160 000 thousand inhabitants, of which only about 400 Jews - which in turn are guarded by 20,000 troops. Right in the middle of the grave Ur-father of the Jews, Christians and Muslims.
right of access for the Jews, left access for Muslims - by Israeli soldiers guarded, security zones and check-point. Between Mosque and Jewish shrine ever a barred window to "worship" Jews and Muslims, the tombs of Abraham and Sarah must. At the high Jewish holidays should not a Muslim in the mosque, because it allowed the Muslim shrines of Jews also affected and the thick carpets also hated Jews to enter. (Always nice shoes at the entrance!) And vice versa of course: at high Muslim holidays, no Jew may be present: Muslims dominate the entire area and then the thin wooden partition is easily digested.
Everything seems unholy Holy : Dirt, after Schweißfuß stinking prayer rugs, stray cats, unshaven men, deeply hooded women, with lifeless eyes, shuffling there - in between occasional tourists, bored-looking soldiers in full gear, with Jewish women, the strikingly thin and pale among their many skirts and blouses and have a rotten sweaters. The faithful Muslims, mostly old men wear as old clothes, including jacket and by Yasser Arafat became known hat. The believing Jews old and bearded, curly nap, tefillin on the head and / or poor and on both issues an attribute applies equally to: unkempt!
With all due respect to all believers and religions against: instead Does not the true faith in ourselves, and not in a place that fought over the centuries, in whose name already thousands have died and probably die, thousands in the future. Places and spaces; mosques, churches and synagogues - in the end only by popes, rabbis, and Iman, of politicians, powerful and violent be exploited to distract the people from their actual projects from their real objectives?
But perhaps I am just too un-believer, to understand why you have a dead stone; worships an ancient wooden chest and a tomb in the long it is known that she could never have been there, where they are now venerated.
I think the old bearded Jew Karl Marx was not far wrong!
