Re: as people celebrate the new year's...
TLK,
this is inspiring.
even world peace can be achieved with effoert of all people.
may there be more people like you in this world.
amen.
Dushwari
Human beings are hardly a self motivated creature. Society needs to impose upon them social and moral obligations to pick up that task.
This is why religion is so important, because in many cultures and social setups that is the only source of imposing such obligations.
And it does not stop here. Think of the long term consequences of couples "living together" without marriages, nudity, vulgarity, alcohol, gambling.
These things have proved themselves as evil choices in western world, yet they have no basis to stop them cause their free will, free speech society cannot stop a person to commit adultery or what not.
Religion offers that solution