the crusades, deuteronomy, blah blah blah!
The crusades were over 600 years ago, and deuteronomy was written over 2500 years ago. Sorry people, help me out here? Who is committing violence in the name of religion, and who complains most about the stereotypes?
2006-08-11 11:26:14 · 32 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Muslims, and Muslims
2006-08-11 11:27:30 · answer #1 · answered by sixfour76 3 · 5⤊ 2⤋
Some men really do still use the bible as a reason for why they beat their wives.
From a person who worked in an intervention program for abusive husbands:
"You've never worked with guys in an intervention group who beat their wives "for their own good" but claim to love them with all their heart. And many say the bible says they can beat them. So you have the simplified ideas that either:
1. They're lying.
2. They only think they love their wives.
However, it's actually more complicated than that and they can love their wives and beat them and feel justified - cognitive biases, attributional errors, distortion in perception of actions, and on and on all play into. Sometimes there are drugs and alcohol involved that may play a major role and many times there are not. Some think they feel love when it is only severe co-dependence which is paralleled by self-esteem pampering need to show dominance.
It's a lot more complicated than - "you can't beat your wife if you love her". We're not in elementary school anymore, life isn't that simplistic."
People also use their religion as a reason to blow up abortion clinics or physically attack gays. Some still even use it as a basis for hating black people.
So, people still do use religion to justify violence, even in modern day America.
2006-08-11 11:32:32 · answer #2 · answered by laetusatheos 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Who uses religion to justify violence? Insane extremists. In my opinion religion is based in actions, not a specific book or text. I have plenty of muslim friends who are the nices people you would ever meet so its not just them. I dont know if any of you have heard about it recently but there are a lot of crazy christians who will toture and disect people because they want to figure out why theyre 'possesed by the devil'.
Really the only people who try to rationalize theyre actions through religion are too afraid to admit that what theyre doing is wrong, and instead of trying anything else they go for violence.
2006-08-11 11:30:55 · answer #3 · answered by Copernicus 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In the very first war in recorded history - The Cave Men versus The River People - which occurred some 14,000,000 years ago, archaeologists found some interesting inscriptions near the battlefield.
From the Cave Men - "We Fight for the Great God of Caves!!!"
and
From the River People - "We Fight for the Great God of Rivers!!!"
and, now this is very odd, archaeologists also found this inscription:
"We Love the Village People - YMCA, YMCA."
2006-08-11 11:34:29 · answer #4 · answered by pezdispenserwisdom 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it's time to start reminding people to be specific as to which violence and where and how many people were involved?
Hate leads to violence. And the hate I see around here is not coming from the christian or religious or even just plain intelligent people but from the 'haters.' And it's 'haters' that start violence.
2006-08-11 11:35:52 · answer #5 · answered by cathyhewed1946 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
every terrorist organization uses religion to justify their actions lets look at them all shall we alquda first they say they are on a jihad try to clear the world of the infidels of Allah what it really boils down is bin laden was cut off from his family and blames us for this .
2 the KKK
this group says that god sent them to purify the human race and that only white Christian peeps are the only true followers of christ and god
3 the Nazi skin heads
they believe and think the same way the KKK do
as u can see religion is at the core of most violence toady
2006-08-11 11:45:01 · answer #6 · answered by ryan s 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well it's men who make wars, kill, and are responsible for all the evil and bad situations with religion, there are not many female warlords or seriel killers SO it must be the male species needs to let the ladies take over, they are even better drivers !! heeeeeee
2006-08-11 11:37:30 · answer #7 · answered by just-dave 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The murderers of Matthew Shephard. Christians.
2006-08-11 11:32:51 · answer #8 · answered by quierounvaquero 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Psychotic freaks who are looking for any reason to justify violence. Islam is supposed to be a peaceable religion so anyone who kills in it's name surely cannot be a good Muslim.
2006-08-11 11:37:47 · answer #9 · answered by charleymac 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If you cant see it, then you are well and truely brainwashed.
I guess nowadays the terms have more 'secular' sounding words.
like "War on Terror", Jihad, "Operation Iraqi Freedom", sanctions, "Evil and Barbaric Dictator", "Axis of EVIL", "Rogue Nation", "Freedom Fighters","La ilah illa Allah", "Terrorists", "Savages", "An Evil and Dark Enemy within", "Not good stewards of the land", "Insurgents", "The War to End All Wars", "Either for us or against us". You see, its been happening all the time, where have you been? They just drop the references to 'God' and 'Jesus' in the public arena.
The crusades are on today.
Christians vs Muslims vs Christians vs Communist vs Christians vs All Unbelievers.
When did you think the 'crusades' stopped?
2006-08-11 11:43:05 · answer #10 · answered by CJunk 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Every culture uses some kind of religious backing to justify war or murder. Look at us were pushing our beliefs on other countries I the name of our constitution which was based on religious beliefs.
2006-08-11 11:33:11 · answer #11 · answered by sevenkwalker 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋