Aw cumon now!! Religions started wars! You can insult a religion!?

Question

No religion ever "Started a War," just as none (as far as I know!) have ever 'Ended a War."

If it is possible to 'insult a religion,' then it must be possible to pleasure it or to tickle its ego.

The implication of being able to 'insult a religion' is that faiths, creeds, ideas, ideologies, beliefs etc have emotions...!

Can you insult Love...? Love is not demonstrable. It's an emotion, a disease, a theory ...depending on who and where you happen to be whatever stage of your life, and may well be an 'emotional experience' you have experienced and decided to label ’Love.’

These are none demonstrable intangibles, they are not capable - no more that a month or a day or your shirt or underwear - of being insulted.

However, I know not to try and demonstrate my argument in certain quarters because there are those members of the Jury who'd love to be Judge, Jailer and the Executioner too.

Answer 1

..And your point is?

Answer 2

Hmm don't know about started or ended wars but caused is pretty accurate and more wars then we'll ever know.
As religion and love are nouns. Nouns can be personified and being personified can be discribed as having emotions, etc. Thus poets, writers, talkers, and readers can enjoy descriptive speach a little more like... "The angry waves crashed upon the sad shore." or "in the room the religion grew hot and men's mouths curled in discuss as hate readied to release the vengence welling inside it."

Answer 3

I think you underestimate religions. lets take a fabled tribe. this tribe has a religion focused on a large tree in the center of their village. In sacred text, it is said that the destruction of the world will occur if the tree (their god if you will) is ever destroyed and the faithful do not take revenge. One night a raiding party came from another tribe and cut down the tree. Soon a tribal war erupted to "save the world" so yes, in theory, a religion can start a war.

Answer 4

A religious war is a war justified by religious differences. The European Wars of Religion, the Crusades, and the Reconquista are frequently cited historical examples.

Answer 5

I dont imagine faith begins all wars, because i imagine contained in the accurate, faith became created so human beings have a sense of emotional and religious help in circumstances of difficulty that all of them placed their faith and hopes in. So i imagine on the starting up it wasn't meant to be like this, and it became all non violent and awesome. that's purely that by potential of the years, human beings twist and contort the beliefs of their religions, and some attempt to 'play god' by employing manipulating human beings's thoughts and ideology, and attempt to assume the chief so human beings ought to persist with him, and all that bullshit. and then you commence to have multiple those mind washing stuff, and individuals certainly use violence as a attitude to venting their frustration on the injustice contained in the international. that is the position faith will change right into a monster and motives each and each and every of the uncertainties and wars. and that i hate it how some Christians (take be conscious: some) say atheists are stupid and retarded to trust that "no longer something got here from no longer something and by no potential something befell and there became no longer something contained in the universe".

Answer 6

The religion doesn't start the war it's the people that use that religion to start the wars. I love the way if we say it's in the name of God that makes it ok.

Answer 7

No. You can only insult the adherents of a religion.

We went through this yesterday, I believe.

Answer 8

You are interpreting the term insult to literally

Answer 9

r e l i g i o n

Radical Ecoryhthmic Literal Idiomatic Giving Inheriting One Notion

Answer 10

you are right it is men that start wars or are insulted in the name of their faith. not the relgion or the God