Intolerance

When I began to read Chapter 6 of Gods Secreatries: The danger never dreamt of, that is the danger, there was a passage which made me think about how things seem to have changed, but they really haven't. "November 1605: the attempt by a group of desperate and marginalised Catholic renegades and romantics-terrorists is the word we would now use-to blow up the king, queen, princes, peers and other members of parliament at its opening on 5 November. It would come to define Jacobean England as much as Septemer 11 2001 would shape the attitudes, fears and methods of revenge of the western world in the first decade of the twenty-first century."(pg. 105). After I finish reading this, I began to think about how even though we think that now we are more tolerant, we really are still as intolerant as we used to be.
For example in the 5th of November in the 17th century, there was a great dispute between two different realigions. And this lead to a terrorist attack. The intolerance between the two religoins, between two different ideals lead to terrible actions. And even though we think we now are better, that now we are more tolerant, we really are the same. An example of this is the event in New York City, September 11, 2001 when the muslims destroyed the World Trade Center killing a lot of people. We thought that in the twenty-first century the whole world was going to be more open-minded, more tolerant to cultures and better.
But really what we were able to see after this event was that we still need to learn to be more tolerant. And also that some people just take it too far with their religion, they take things to literally instead of analyzing its real meaning so they cause a great devastation. I began to ask myself: How is it possible that thousands of people die just because of religious believes? And isn't religion supposed to be opposed to killing?