And Why are people still so religious despite the brutality of their religion?
2006-10-23 07:34:16 · 34 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
9/11
The Crusades
The Inquisition
The slaughter of the Knights Templar
The witch hunts.
The lists just goes on and on...
2006-10-23 07:37:44 · answer #1 · answered by YDoncha_Blowme 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
So many examples! Hindus and Muslims murdering each other, Jews and Palestinians, Catholics and Protestants, inquisitions, crusades, pogroms.... I'd say the Holocaust, because it was so simple, so sytematic, so banal. No battles, simply round the people up and send them to the death camps. And everyone else just stood by, in denial.
People who are aware of religion's bloody history can still believe by recognizing that the brutality is not a true part of their faith. Nothing good ever happens but that evil tries to take it over. Religion is the response of the defenseless against a hostile world. The problems creep in when they get some effective worldly power.
2006-10-23 08:16:54 · answer #2 · answered by skepsis 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hi, I am Rational Spirituality.
I am sure that many terrible deeds have been performed in the name of religion, but in my opinion the single worst instance was the annihilation of the Cathars by the Roman Catholic Church. This is because all three Souls destined for Divinity incarnated as Cathars, and that included the Soul of Christ. And all three have died by fire. The entire Cathar communities, unarmed men, women and children were driven into huge bonfires to be burnt alive. Not only that, but to date the Christian church spreads malicious lies about the Cathars, like calling them an unimportant little sect and heretics, in order to cover up their guilt for the atrocity.
2006-10-23 09:19:43 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Murder.
Fortunatly not everyone or even most of the religious people in the world are murderers. In most religions there is a concept akin to free will, which states that everyone has a choice in what the do.
2006-10-23 07:38:08 · answer #4 · answered by Tonya in TX - Duck 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Spanish Inquisition
2006-10-23 07:36:01 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
9/11
2006-10-23 07:40:30 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The crusades by far....from both sides....Muslim and Christian....and at that time even the Pope was saying that by killing an "infidel" would basically be a free ticket upstairs....what made that so bad was that is streached over so many hears....hundred of years....killing back and forth....
Or the Aztecs.....they would sacrafice thousands of people at one time to please there gods.....I heard of one time they sacrificed 80,000 people in one ceremony. Also right up there with the most terrible...
2006-10-23 07:38:01 · answer #7 · answered by yetti 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Terrible deeds will always be performed in the name of religions when people put their faith in man and not in God
2006-10-23 07:44:47 · answer #8 · answered by chollie_007 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
too many things have happened becusae of religion but the most sbstantial one i would say r the crusades
they r religious because it gives them hope that there is more then wat we have here on earth they hope that once they die it isnt the end to thier existence
religous is a brutally beautiful thing its brought so much death and hope in this world
o yeah most of the civil wars in iraq have roots in religion as well
2006-10-23 07:39:36 · answer #9 · answered by chuckles82791 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Indoctinating children.
Creating undeserved guilt and shame and doubt.
The Holocaust.
The Inquisition.
The Crusades.
The Salam witch trials.
September 11th.
The middle east RIGHT NOW.
You choose.
2006-10-23 07:35:19 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋