Religious and spiritual leaders should be held accountable for environmental activism, not only because they have access to large communities and can influence votes, but because service is integral to religious and spiritual life.

Religion is meant to teach us true spiritual human character. It is meant for self-transformation. It is meant to transform anxiety into peace, arrogance into humility, envy into compassion, to awaken the pure soul in man and his love for the Source, which is God.

When people unfortunately use religion to facilitate their envy, arrogance and hate, communalism surfaces.

When people unfortunately use religion to facilitate their envy, arrogance and hate, communalism surfaces.