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God, worsening Israel-Hamas conflict and the growing crisis of faith

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Macharia Munene, Historian.

In the 21st century, the world experiences many crises that create a sense of despair and the questioning of various beliefs. Among them is the crisis of faith arising from wars and natural calamities that test the limits of hope and trust. While some calamities are natural, others including epidemics and climate change are human-induced. Wars are often man-manufactured to advance individual, societal, and geopolitical ends. Greed and the defence of perceived core interests create an air of conflict inevitability over whose interests has divine support.

Since each side claims to have divine blessings, the question is whether there is one God who is responsible for wars and why or whether there are many Gods competing to assert divine supremacy on Earth through wars. The likely relativity of God explains the thousands of competing religions afflicting the Earth with wars. The Einsteinian possibility of God being relative erodes faith in the sense that certainty in God's capacity and benevolence becomes relative to which God. There is a 'crisis of faith.'

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