The failure of religions

In recent years we've been thrown back into the uncivilized notion of religion wars. Sunnis and shites fighting, tens of of thousands of lives destroyed at the expense of much needed humanistic progress. The fights rages on and yet no one, among the religious higher-ups, says or does anything substantive, or start a ground-swell of indignation capable of getting humanity's attention.

Religion is receiving another big black eye as the planet watches. In the Muslim word, it seems to be business as usual, same thing among Jews, and the Christian world watches without creating an opportunity for denouncing and addressing the issue. Even though I'm a fan of his, I'm particularly disappointed that Pope Francis doesn't fully embrace the issue.

Unless I'm wrong, these three monotheist religions worship the same God and because of it, should react vehemently, unless – deep inside – they all know that the program is bogus and that God doesn't care because he's not even there...