Where is the Love?

Pick up any magazine or go onsite to any major news article and you will see that 3/4ths of the printable are is all about conflict ...
If it is not Isreal; its something in Asia or Africa or some radical Islamist group talking of blowing the world up or something like that.
Maybe its that now the newsflow is becoming increasingly seamless and one is getting very readily and easily available information on anything disruptive or Shock Value is picking up and ppl are focusing more on that as it may be getting ready viewership; but is so depressing ...
But htere are times when I feel that what I am doing in this world when there is no way that I can contribute to help people or make this world a better place for myself and hopefully when I have kids; then for them togrow up in.

But mostly I am puzzled and anguished at the pain people readily caus onto others provoking the name of religion when that is the one thing that all religions preach against.
How can it ever matter whether I am a Hindu, Christain, Jew or Muslim when to start off wiht I am an evil person who wants to force himself onto the others using violent measures? In short I am an evil man and no evil man deserves to be given (either self or otherwise)
How can anyone decide for others that this is a thing or religion that one should practise when the entire conceptis based on spreading and being disharmonious?And what is shocking is that increasingly well educated ppl are coming into the throes of this religious disharmonious spread ... and thats when you think there is no hope ... because one can understand if it happens in countries and regions where unemployment and thus disdain with the existing system is high; but not so in case of an educated and well informed populace.
Maybe we are all in a structural shift in the environment and being part of it; we have to see all this ... but there has to be a way to end this nonsense.