Changing The Leopards Spots

Whether a wild leopard, a tamed pussycat, a liberalist, a Muslim, a Christian, a wealthy white collar, an impoverished peasant, or a partisan politician, conscious behavior is controlled by what is believed and what is believed is learned. Even the instinct driven behavior of animals can be modified by what the animal is trained to believe.
As a consequence of endowed intellectual capacity, humans have freewill over conscious behavior. Over the course of history, viable societies, especially those with behavior control objectives, have come to realize the need to imposed restrictions on individual freedom in the form of moral codes, traditions or laws in an effort to limit behavior deemed deleterious to the viability of the society as a whole. Modification of beliefs is the only recourse to behavior modification in intellectually endowed people. Such is the problem now present with the behavior now manifest by the barbaric behavior of a segment of professed Muslims.
Since beliefs are an integral part of faith, they frequently are defended to the death, which is one way of effecting a change in beliefs when concession cannot otherwise be achieved. Such is the situation presented by those certain tenets of the Muslim faith, which while held sacred by believers, produces behavior in some adherents that is not conducive to the maintenance of viability in the remainder of society.
In this case, resolution is extremely complicated. The responsible tenets have been an integral part of the Muslim faith since its inception, and absent a responsible governing authority with which to negotiate, resolution is not probable. Baring an internal movement of willing voluntary concession to the exorcism of the responsible tenets, attempting to achieve behavior modification on an individual basis whether through friendly persuasion or exorcism of the offending individuals, is not very probable as proven by history.
The best bet remains influence by example of the capability of the Good News as taught by Jesus. Unfortunately, that effort as well as the efforts of the patriarch Abraham have been equally corrupted and rendered impotent by acceptance of the practice of relativism. Through the practice of relativism, the conscious intellect of humans is left without an absolute upon which to establish a behavioral controlling core belief. We are rudderless. For example, at this time, the practice of relativism allows profession of belief in a supreme creator yet condones the teaching and belief that there is no such supreme creator and a majority of the population of the world condones that practice. More precisely there is a massive movement, lead by the believers of Einstein’s theory of relativity that has invaded the education institutions and even the religions of the world, to develop argument and to teach concepts that counter belief in a supreme creator.
That is the argument of the Taliban for example when you listen closely. It does not justify their behavior but it does provide an indication of what it will take to correct the current course of our society. Relativism must be exorcised totally from the core beliefs of the Judeo/Christian/Muslim faiths. We must believe in one God, the father, the creator of all things, seen and unseen, with out that belief being “relativized”.