[ExI] Religions and violence

[Giulio Prisco]

I have not paid too much attention to this thread so far, but here are
a few comments:

All religions have been used to justify violence and oppression. All
political ideologies have been used to justify violence and
oppression. All philosophies have been used to justify violence and
oppression. All ethnic identities have been used to justify violence
and oppression. There may be quantitative differences, but I don't see
any fundamental differences.
Books, songs and flags are not violent or oppressive. Some people are
violent and oppressive, and for them religious and political beliefs
are just means to justify their thirst for violence and oppression.

@Mirco "Christians, like Buddhists and others tend to become killers
against the tenets of their faiths, where the Muslims tend to become
killer when they start to take their faith too seriously." Come on
MIrco. I assume you have been raised a Christian, and I think you
should study the history of your own religion more carefully. Should I
provide a bibliography of atrocities committed by Christians in the
name of Christ?

G,

On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 12:58 AM, Sabrina Ballard
<sabrina.ballard at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>  > Good and peaceful Muslims can become rabid killers in just a moment
>>  > of faith.
>>
>>  > The same is true with Christians and any variety of agnostic or
>>  > atheist that is not a pacifist.
>>
>>  I politely disagree: Christians, like Buddhists and others tend to
>>  become killers against the tenets of their faiths, where the Muslims
>>  tend to become killer when they start to take their faith too seriously.
>
>
> However this doesn't mean that they *won't*. Who says those Muslims do
> it, THEN find an excuse in their religion? The Catholics had their
> crusades too.
>
> And the bible contradicts itself, especially when you compare the old
> and new testament. There is a foundation for violence in the Torah and
> Bible, but they are largely ignored.
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