What can be done against wars and civil wars?

The root of wars is not religion, which is only exploited, but the fact that people and nations worship their own ego. As long as the ego stands in God's place, no such conflict will truly be resolved.

All over the world there are wars and civil wars, refugees and ruined countries. Many hope that a religion or a better order can change this. But before offering the world a solution, one should ask why one's own society has not found it so far, even though it knows a religion of peace.

The problem does not concern only one religion or one people. It is universal. And it does not lie in religion itself. Religion is exploited to turn people against each other, but it is not the cause.

The real cause is that man worships his own self. God is hardly worshipped any more. Every man, every woman and every nation has made a god out of its own ego, and to this god alone they are loyal. The first verse above describes exactly this person, who takes his own desire for his god. Whoever lives like this seeks his own advantage, not the other's right.

As long as this remains so, no conflict will truly be resolved. One can sign treaties, agree on ceasefires and feel safe for a while. But that is living in a fool's paradise if the root remains.

The way out begins in the heart of every individual and every nation. Whoever puts God above his own self can be just even towards an enemy, as the second verse above demands, and can take the hand of peace as soon as it is offered.