text: SECULARISM, RACISM AND RELIGION
  According to the sociology of religion, the several religions are a byproduct of ethnic and racial groups, as well as of political empires. The Jewish society produced the Jewish religion, the Byzantine Empire produced Christianity and the Ottoman Empire produced Islam.  And the disintegration of these empires, led to the several sub-divisions within Christianity and Islam (mainly Catholics, Protestants and Orthodox in Christianity, and mainly Sunni and Shiite in Islam.)  Now, in a globalized world, we do not only need to heal ethnic and racial divisions, but we also need to heal religious divisions.  And the way to heal the religious divisions is not by promoting...“freedom of religion,” but by creating a new globalized religion – and that religion is, in my opinion…SECULARISM, which is based on knowledge and science and not on beliefs, prophesies and... miracles. Thank you.  A. C.