Frustrations

What makes people turn to tangible objects in order to feel whole? By the end of the reading for tonight, the Christian populations in Jerusalem where claiming the land as their holy place as the Jews had done previously. It is interesting to me that human nature has not changed much throughout history. People are still fighting over a piece of land as they have in the past, yet now we have more variables which make the situation all the more complex. Today we not only have religion, tradition, and politics, which inflame the issue, but also the claim to history. Just the mere fact that Jerusalem has been a focal point of three of the main religions of the world for thousands of years is enough of a reason to make the city a complicated issue. Yet, it seems that this issue will never be resolved because I do not see that humans have learned from the past. It does not seem that the issue of Jerusalem has found any compelling answer, and worse than stagnation of answers, I just see a continuous destructive cycle. I feel that Jerusalem is one of the best real world examples (historically, traditionally, culturally, politically), which sheds light on the fact that the world will change around us, before we, who inhabit this world will budge, even slightly.