Why is religion the biggest form of terrorism in the world and wouldnt the world be a better place without it?

Answer 1

yes, the world would be a better place without terriorism, ot without God. thanks,
Matt

Answer 2

I do believe that the world would be a better place if different religions, and even different sects of the same religion learnt to be more tolerant.
However, after spending years studying different religions in the vain hope of finding faith. I realised that most religious doctrine is basically an attempt to make people be nicer to each other.
Unfortunately some people still need a 'religious leader or a 'god' to be able to do this basic thing.
Also, although organised religion controls the masses and causes a lot of war, hatred etc. Church groups and contact with other people who share one's beliefs can be a good thing. They often organise charity events and support some of societies most needy like the elderly and disabled.
I think the world is moving away from religion and as a non-believer that is a good thing. But, some of the most vulnerable people (and dumbest) people in the world still need religion.
So, I don't think the process should be rushed!!

Answer 3

Because religion is man made, man is full of greed, and if you look at religion going way back it's been the easiest way to brainwash people in to believing what others say God wants. If the people of this world were to grow up and look at how they have been conned over the years, by religion, and the different Church's they would realise that you only need one thing and that is faith in God, not on some book written by man, and a religion again man made. So yes the world would be a better place without religion, but even without it you would still have terrorism.

Love & Peace

Answer 4

i don't think the world is any better off without religion than it would be without rules...

the truth is, people need religion to feel they have a "purpose..." i.e., a reason why we're all here on this big blue complex marble that doesn't really make a whole lot of sense EITHER way you choose to look at it...

EVERY civilization has had it's Gods and Goddesses, including some of the greatest ever known; the mayans, aztecs, egyptians, and above all else, the Greeks and Romans. We know the stories of hercules, and zeus, and of trojan horses and Ulysses lost ship.

We know these stories as "mythology." But i label ALL religions as such. The fact is....as a society we NEED a direction...who cares what it is? We need to give ourselves as a whole a reason to exist, with an ultimate goal in the end.

what we don't need, however, is this bitter "terrorism" that seems to have taken hold of religion as is. We don't need religious fascists "spreading" their good word with hate, and vile retorts that hinge only ever slightly on that thin line that we call "reason." the message, or messages that religions have taught, Jesus' love or Hinduisms karma, are being muddled in a state of "I'm right, you're wrong." Generally it is catholocism which seems to have gained an aire of superiority, but while Catholicims actions are more known, their are other albeit smaller factions of different religions, who have gained the sense of power that allows them to do everything in the name of their God, including killing their fellow man.

In my opinion that is senseless violence that can not be justified no matter whose name you invoke.

A true God, one that would create us and give us the gift of compassion, would not condone any of that if a God existed at all...

Without giving too much away of my own faith, i must let you know that Faith, in my opinion is FAR more important than any one religion. Faith in ourselves, hope, that gives us all strength.

We need to realize that we aren't alone. The more we can lean on each other, the less NEED there would be FOR religion and the extremes they entail.

We don't need God if we can do it on our own.

Believe in Him, Them, or nothing. Do as you will. It should NOT matter, so long as you can see what is really the MOST important, and that is whatever you can see with your open, divine eyes.

Answer 5

I don't understand why you think that religion is the biggest form of terrorism. Some people are like a wolf in sheep's clothing, just because they say they are following a religion does not mean they really are. Most religions practice the basics of Love Thy Neighbor.

Answer 6

Well... look at it the other way... religion (the most widespread ones at least) as always been in a tight relationship with governments and is needed as form of not only spreading some tipes of beliefs, but also values, and thus control the people. This is one of the oldest truths in the history of man kind and has to many facts about it so its hard to deny.
The problem is, sometimes religion is also exploited the wrong way...

I'd say religion is a necessary evil.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

Religion is not any form of terrorism but a way to live. However we are so very influenced by our worldly wishes that that we have got carried away and started taking Religion as a form of terrorism!

None of the religions teaches us terror but peace!

Answer 9

No, it's the human who's the biggest form of terrorism in the world and it would be a better place without humans...they're not only satisfied with killing one another, but they anihilate every living thing too...cutting down of forests just to keep warm, killing of innocent animals just for fun, poisoning rivers and seas just to make money, poluting the air with chemicals like CFC's just to keep cool in summer, invading and destroying other countries for its riches...what else? did religion have a role in all of this?

Answer 10

I don't agree with you on this matter.

Religion is a path, a way of life, a tool if you like it to guide you in the way you conduct your actions, in the way you live your life, in the way you think, form moral convictions, form a conscience, perceive what's right or wrong, shape your opinion and so on. Atheism, or being agnostic or being a scientologist or a being satanist or a theosophist, are in some ways, also practising a religion as those involved in these other isms are following a way of life.

Religion, per se, is not good or bad, as it is passive. It is our attitude towards it, the way people act or react towards it that makes it bad. When people impose their own beliefs and practices to other people who are practising other things or who do not believe in them, then it becomes negative. When people persecute, hurt, harm, separate, divides people because of their religious beliefs, then it is another matter.

When people practise religious tolerance, then the world would be a better place. It should be understood that people practise beliefs that are suitable for them, for their lifestyle, personality, how advance is their consciousness, how evolved they are and in line with their culture, traditions and norms of the society they live in for these go hand in hand with their religion.

In any case, live and let live. If you don't want to practise any religion, go ahead, be free from any kind, but leave alone those people who want to have a set of rules in their lives to guide them, who believe in a Supreme or Higher being who looks out for them. Maybe they are in the right path and you are not. It is a choice and a basic human right and I believe we only have to make choices for ourselves and not for others.

Answer 11

Religion, in and of itself, is incapable of terrorism. Terrorism is an action that is perpetrated upon people, by other people, not by religion. Many extremist sects of one religion or another sometimes perpetrate acts of terrorism in the name of their religion, or their god. However, religion itself is not capable of terrorism and NO, the world would be a much worse place if it were not for the refining influences of religion.