The entire ecosystem is built upon violence, whether it is violence like hurricanes and volcanic eruptions, or one animal eating the other in order to exist. What about territorialism among animals? In humans we call it war. Religion as I know it defines good and evil, humans then define who gets called good or evil. But nobody has resolved the relationship between violent conflict and divinity.
The entire planet (maybe the universe) thrives on destruction. Where is this fully addressed in religion?
2006-08-23 11:31:37 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Juan Carlos, the question is clear. You do not consider hurricanes and volcanic eruptions violent. That's why you do not understand
2006-08-23 11:48:35 · update #1
The majority of Eastern religions, as many here have pointed out, do indeed address destruction and view it as a necessary part of life; the Eastern view of time is cyclical rather than circular, and destruction is necessary for new life to enter.
2006-08-23 11:49:00 · answer #1 · answered by angk 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Your question is not clear. But to clarify some things you mentioned, war is not only caused by territory affairs, it also can be a consequence of political and religious ideas. The natural phenomena of hurricanes and volcanic eruptions are not a form of violence, since an act is considered violent when its objective is to diminish or extinguish a life of at least threaten it. Eruptions and hurricanes are just natural reactions and phenomena that coincidentally affect the life of some species. Animals eating animals is just a survival instinct, they dont purposedly kill an animal and leave it to rot, animals kill animals so they can eat, as we do. So that leaves only the manmade violence, but your question is not clear so I can't answer it.
2006-08-23 11:40:22 · answer #2 · answered by Juan Carlos R 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I see you have removed some of your blinders so that you are able to see some of the reality of this world (and physical universe). Yes, there is one religion that has come to terms with both natural and manmade violence. It's the one described in the Scriptures, but it is not one recognized by the religions in the world. The entire Bible, from front to back, is concerned with releasing Adam (Man) from his sentence of death, from his imprisonment in the world, which is "beneath", and restoring him to his former estate that is "above." The world beneath, our world, is the "underworld." It is the place where man fell to when he fell. It is a place of torment, a place for the dead. Those who dwell in it know nothing; they do not know whom they are, why they're here, where they came from, or where they are going. In Hell there is no safe place.
Hell is described as a place where the "worm" does not die. [Mark 9:48] The worm or maggot signifies decay and certainly never dies in the world of decay. Every inhabitant in the world of the dead feeds on death. Nothing can exist in the underworld without the destruction of something else that grows or moves whether it be a cow, a lamb, a head of cabbage, or a blade of grass. Even the blade of grass feeds on the destruction of others for it cannot grow without decaying organic matter in the soil.
Don't think that I'm just referring to our small planet that we call Earth. I'm talking about the entire physical universe. It is the world of "flesh," the world of matter. The world "above" is not made of matter.
2006-08-23 12:12:22 · answer #3 · answered by Nina 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In Asatru we recognize the importance of chaos and it's role in the creation/destruction and maintenance (or maybe I should say nonmaintenance?) of the universe. Things are not black and white, and this is embodied in the natures of our Gods and in the Lore. My own Patron Loki embodies chaos and destruction fully, and He and His family will all bring destruction down on the world when the time comes so that a new one can be created from the dust of the deadwood.
2006-08-23 11:36:23 · answer #4 · answered by Abriel 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
in basic terms placed, the Christian POV is base4d on an historical nomadic custom that desperate that humanity became into no longer without postpone responsable for plate tectonics, atmospheric rigidity, and the cycle of existence and dying. an quite, very selfish attitude, for my section. As infants on occasion have self belief that what happenins in the international may well be because of the fact of a few thing they did or did no longer do, so believed those early tribes appropriate to the international that they might no longer administration. the international became right into a opposed place: somewhat somebody had to be responsable for it being that way. so they prayed to the sky and begged forgiveness in the desire that existence might get somewhat greater elementary for them. It did no longer. And cutting-edge Christians are caught with the legacy.
2016-10-02 11:16:41 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hinduism possibly. I know they have at least 2 deities devoted to destruction. They seem to view it as a necessary part of life.
2006-08-23 11:33:44 · answer #6 · answered by The Resurrectionist 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sorry to say you don't know what you are talking about. All major world religions tackle the issues of violence to some degree or other.
2006-08-23 11:38:47 · answer #7 · answered by 1,1,2,3,3,4, 5,5,6,6,6, 8,8,8,10 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Buddhism!
2006-08-23 11:36:40 · answer #8 · answered by Wounded duckmate 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Isn't that the whole point of Gnosticism--that the whole visible universe is destructive?
2006-08-23 11:33:34 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
spiritualism
personal responsibility is one of our principles
man has done harm to the planet
man does harm against man
we cant/shouldn't blame god or anyone/anything else
2006-08-23 11:34:21 · answer #10 · answered by Peace 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋