Proud of your history, culture and religion, huh?

Of all 7 sins pride is one. I see around people who are over proud of their so called “culture” and religion; so much proud of it that they can’t tolerate fellow humans, and they don't care for other human lives any more. Every part of the world reachable by humans has been suffering from this sickness since centuries one or the other way. Irony is that no one ever found a complete cure to it. Though some governments could control it but it’s been in every country and every culture. And it’s no different here in India; initially it all started with few people but slowly like a fungal disease it grew; it grew so much over the years that it can’t be cured any more. You can’t blame only the governments for this failure, we too are responsible for it; all of us are responsible. We failed to understand the concept of religion – it’s about faith and not about pride. What is religion? I guess it’s the part of cultural evolution that happened differently in different parts of the world. We failed to understand the beauty of the fact that though different religions evolved in different parts of the world, we all believed in something common- the god; we initially were certain about the good and bad. But then over time we started believing in pseudo-intellectuals to understand about god and faith and that’s exactly when all these problems started. Those few pseudo-intellectuals convinced their fellow gullible and still evolving humans to develop the rigidness of the beliefs; and something that’s rigid is often fragile. Some people understood this wrong going and so they said that over time world is going to see the dooms day. You see this concept is not so esoteric after all :)