In light of recent events with the shooting at the Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs as well as people vandalizing the church in Lynwood, California, the center point of both these unfortunate events is religion.

Religion is being used as a reason for a cause as a way to make a statement against a certain belief.

According to the New York Times, the shooter opened fire at the clinic because he believed he was doing God’s work by giving the sinners what they deserve for performing an abortion.

The real problem here is misusing a group of people’s faith as an excuse to target people, and confess that it is acceptable to do so because they are doing it in the name of their god.

Continuous blame toward religion for what people do puts a bad light on that particular doctrine and paints a bulls-eye for those who are not of the same faith.

What should be done is not to over assert one’s faith onto someone else, but to learn how to respect one another’s faith.

For every faith has it’s own struggles to overcome.

So instead of pushing our own agendas and what we think our faith means to us, we should talk to our fellow neighbors that no matter how different we may seem there are certain things that each religion can relate to.

The less we respect, the more people tend to defile places of worship just because they feel like it.

The church, for instance, was vandalized with demonic symbols on its statues and on different parts of the church as well.

This is a clear example of a person’s disrespect and ignorance toward another group’s faith.

From here on out people should strive to be more open minded to others and also try not to use religion in vain.