2006-11-01 04:53:02 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
human nature to be competitive I think.
2006-11-01 04:56:46 · answer #1 · answered by . 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
If you open the HOLY BOOKS of your religion, you will understand.
The HOLY BOOKS of all religions should be put on Trial before the Church in question is allowed 'tax exempt" status as a "charitable" society.
The Bible, (Christian), the Torah (Jewish) and the Q'uran (Muslim) are all full of wars and atrocities sanctionned by their respective God, Yahweh/Elohim, or Allah. One could debate in court that most "Holy Books" do not pass the "hate litterature" bar set up by our legal systems for pornography, violence, torture, treatment of the neighbour (discrimination) etc...
The minor tribal gods of the near eastern religions are "petty, jealous, arrogant, pompous, mean, cruel, sadistic, have favourites, condone violence, crime, war, genocide etc..
It is time for a different ONE that UNITES us on this GLOBE in SPACE we call Planet EARTH.
The ONE is a "numeric, neutral, is not gender-based" and is SOMETHING as opposed to the Buddhist ZERO which is "emptiness". We don't know for sure but we feel that there is "SOMETHING" out there and that it is not just our DREAM or an "ILLUSION".
We took the philosophical step: "I think therefore I am" with Rene DesCartes many centuries ago and we stopped there. Now it's time for: "You think therfore you are". I don't know that for sure but you tell me you are as real as me and I respect you, I believe and trust you because you don't lie. That is called trust and is not a "religious" concept but a "survival" one. To trust is "divine".
The ONE trusts that we will evolve and stop our warring ways so we can expand to the stars which is what we are made of and is our true destiny and our real "HOME".
Here is a song by Cyril...
THE OLD PARADIGM
By Cyril Borg (SOCAN)
Key of E (Capo 4....Play C) in 5/4 Time- New Folk
(F) C G C
These are days of higher learning
F C G Am
These are signs of our time
F C G Am
And our world is into fusion
F C C G
Into rhythms out of rhyme
F C G C
These are days of revolution
F C G Am
And Con-fusion's on the rise
F C G Am
As we leave behind the quandaries
C F G C
Of the old paradigm
These are days of transmutations
Who knows where the virus flies?
Put the genie in the bottle
Who decides and what survives?
These are days of global warming
Floods and fires on the rise
As we leave behind the quandaries
Of the old paradigm
These are days of re-alignment
Rise up in the Holy Shrine
These are days for re-aligning
A million light-years down the line
These are days of Revelation
The gods of war will soon decline
As we leave behind the quandaries
Of the old paradigm
2006-11-01 05:57:03 · answer #2 · answered by cyril_borg 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think these verses by Jesus Christ explain your ??? the best
2"They will (C)make you outcasts from the synagogue, but (D)an hour is coming for everyone (E)who kills you to think that he is offering service to God.
3"These things they will do (F)because they have not known the Father or Me.
4"But these things I have spoken to you, (G)so that when their hour comes, you may remember that I told you of them These things I did not say to you (H)at the beginning, because I was with you.
False religions encourage division and strife and have produced horrible atrocities such as the Crusades, Inquisition, Salem witch trials, and the Holocaust ( and that's just from Christendom , now the different factions of Islam are causing much bloodshed)"
2006-11-01 05:03:29 · answer #3 · answered by jaguarboy 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
They don't.
WW1 wasn't...
WW2 was and wasn't. Hitler wanted world dominance and decided to kill Jews along with it...but that was more to do with race, not religion.
Korea wasn't...
Vietnam wasn't...
The Gulf wars were not (1st one was to get Saddam out of Kuwait) the Second one was to remove the nuclear threat from Saddam (along with other reasons)...
There have been wars based on religion...but there have been wars based on other reasons.
2006-11-01 04:57:50 · answer #4 · answered by Salvation is a gift, Eph 2:8-9 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
We have wars based on difference, religion is one such difference.
2006-11-01 04:55:09 · answer #5 · answered by fourmorebeers 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Because religion tends to amplify the us versus them mentality.
2006-11-01 04:56:35 · answer #6 · answered by nondescript 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I just give simple answer to be easy to understand:
1.Actually wars was NOT based on religionif we analyze the reasoning OBJECTIVELY,..its all aboutMoney(can be oil,land,..etc)Power(politics,colonialialism,influence,prestigeetc)Ego(chauvinistics,ideologies,ethnics,etc)
2.To GAIN SUPPORTERS and ELEVATE HATE,.morally corrupt leaders,..try to make reasoning based on RELIGIONS.
It is actually,...A MISLEAD INFORMATIONS,..especially to people that has lower educational background.
3.PERSS,...either side,...NEEDS HOT issue/news,...sometime will misinformed people in purpose,...to ESCALATE CONFLICTS.
4.RELIGION was FORMED NOT TO HARMED PEOPLE,...but TO WORSHIP GOD and TO LOVE OTHER HUMAN BEING.
5.However,...many political,religious leader and perss,...they will benefited from religious war ....
May GOD forgive them....
2006-11-01 06:35:33 · answer #7 · answered by baron van c 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
it is part of religion to be intolerant of competition. so in today's day and age, whn we r falling back on religion to give us identities, we are also following the rule of religion to brooke no competition.
2006-11-01 05:00:26 · answer #8 · answered by slmanl 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Religion is the excuse, not the reason.
2006-11-01 04:55:13 · answer #9 · answered by isoar4jc 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
because if we didnt we'd have wars based on something else.
2006-11-01 04:55:19 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
To avoid wars, you need to compromise. Religious zealots are known for their refusal to compromise.
2006-11-01 04:57:19 · answer #11 · answered by Ranto 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋