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2006-11-23 12:11:55 · 13 answers · asked by Luis 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The answer to the question of how peaceful religions are depends on which side of the equation you find yourself. Here's the equation: The Bible speaks of the four winds (of strife), with angels holding them back until the last moment. Each of these winds is striving for the mastery. These can be defined as:
1) Politics / Government
2) Education / Philosophy / Science
3) Money / Business
4) Religion
Each of these four things is striving for dominance in today's world. Governments are trying to control the people by force of laws. Others try to control people through the educational system, keeping them ignorant on some issues and promoting their own agenda with others. Businesses try to monopolize the market for their own profits. And religion competes against all of these for its ideals, trying to convert everyone to one way of thinking and believing.
Exactly HOW religious people choose to compete determines how "peaceful" they might be seen.
2006-11-23 12:21:42 · answer #1 · answered by AsiaWired 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well, is not enough to talk it you have to walk it too. Read the history of all religions and then come back and we can talk about it. What is so peaceful about a movement religious or not that has to impose it theories with blood, fire and threat. Read the Old Testament and tell me what's so loving a peaceful about it. You have to make a different between The Religion and religions, they are not one and the same. No mayor set or cult today that call then self religions can say it has any thing to do with The Religion.
2006-11-23 20:39:31 · answer #2 · answered by Simon 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most religions do talk about peace...however, man takes religion and twists it around for man's purpose, and creates war. Lots of wars are faught in the name of "religion", and this is used to justify war. People just like to use religion as a means to justify something that is wrong. It happens all the time.
2006-11-23 20:18:50 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
They talk about their kind of peace. When a religion speaks of peace it talks about everyone being of that religion and then peace will reign... in most modern religious writings, Bible, Quran, etc it shows these Gods telling the followers to kill off other people (Old Test is just as full of this as the Quran is). They show people of other religions as evil and not worthy of much of anything outside of slavery. It is not a general idea of peace, but a Theocratic idea of peace.
2006-11-23 20:33:06 · answer #4 · answered by Kithy 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Most religions *talk* about peace.
Unfortunately, some practitioners of religion do not adhere to what their religion teaches about peace. Some individuals feel that the end justifies the means and that violent methods should be used against those who do not conform.
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2006-11-23 20:17:00 · answer #5 · answered by Chickyn in a Handbasket 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Talk is cheap. Religions love to preach morals and then completely act against them.
History will teach you that religion is far from peaceful
2006-11-23 22:15:53 · answer #6 · answered by GayAtheist 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Gandhi said: I like your Christ, but i don't like your Christian.
It's a sad truth, but many people who are Christians misrepresent Jesus' teachings. It's easy to say that religions aren't peaceful. All you have to do is look in the middle east where muslims are killing each other every day for their religion.
2006-11-23 22:14:58 · answer #7 · answered by disciple 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
When people say "religion is not peaceful," they don't really mean it.
It's just their way of discrediting and defaming religion, especially Christianity, because it teaches them certain moral things that they don't want to hear.
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2006-11-23 20:20:26 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I guess people are just offended by other peoples religions because it is not what they believe, There for they don't what to listen to what the other one has to say.
May God bless you and have a great day
2006-11-23 20:27:04 · answer #9 · answered by jan d 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because the truth lies in deeds not words. In the first half of the 1800s there were ministers who found justification for slavery in the Bible. The Bible can be used to justify the suppression of women, children and people who are different. The same problem occurs with the expressions of Islam. Yes, there are people who both faiths who believe their faith guides them to live peacefully. There are Christian and Muslim war makers and there are Christian and Muslim peacemakers. They are different groups of people within those faiths.
2006-11-23 20:19:09 · answer #10 · answered by kennethmattos 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋