Seven is a magic number. I learned this sentence from the book, “Harry Potter”. However, it is not the thing I want to discuss. When finishing reading the book, all the information has been connected. How these three religions, Judaism, Christian and Islam, play an important role in the holy city. In this way, I change my first idea about Jerusalem. Jerusalem now is not a city of wars but a city with hope, death, desires and lost. People always say that, Jerusalem is a center of the world. It is the center of the world no matter how scientific researches say it is not. The reason is that we can see Jerusalem as the earth, everything happens in Jerusalem also in the earth. We all have been connected with each other, so the only way to solve the problem is to learn living together with “tolerance and coexistence”.
Giving an example from chapter 15, The Western Wall is not a holy place for Jews from the beginning. Actually, it is a man-made place for being holy, and then it became a sacred place. Thus, I want to say that Jerusalem belonging to whom is a silly question. If I really need to answer that question. My answer would be The Nature. (I don’t know if I said in a right way.) Nothing really belongs to human, and all the thing we got is from The Nature, or we can use “God”.
I think your last point is wonderful and I completely agree. People always get so caught up in what belongs to who and we really need to remember that we're all part of a living planet that everyone has a right to be a part of. I'm interpreting this is a more mother nature way but for someone with strong religious beliefs it could be interpreted that everything belongs to God and we just have the privilege of enjoying it.
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with you on the point the posession being a silly question. Espescially given that a pillar in all three of the religon is charity (and compassion and love etc...) To me, this seems to be a case of 'totally-missing-the-point.' "This is holy place meant for compassion. . . Let's kill eachother over it." This is one of the things that drives me crazy about the history of Jerusalem and religion itself.
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