Why do the extremists of certain religions teach their children to hate?

Answer 1

Excellent question and I think the answer is that they are teaching their children what they were taught.

We have to break this vicious cycle. I was raised in a far right religious home where being prejudice was the norm. Sad, but true. It took me years to break that from my mind and sometimes I still struggle with it.

Answer 2

There are many ways to answer this question. First of all, it is not a specific religion, or certain religions. It is most of them. I do not honestly believe (personal belief, take it as you will) that they are trying to teach hate.

I believe they are trying to do what they THINK is best for their children, but a lot of times, it comes out as hate.

These people were raised being taught one way is beter than another, and if someone does not agree with their specific belief then they are wrong. It's more of a Pride factor than a specific hate issue.

Although I am firmly non-religious, I hold on to some values very high as well. The difference is that I am open to hearing what other people think and to the possibility that I might be wrong. So it doesn't come across as hate.

Their minds are closed to the possibility that they are wrong. If they would just open their minds, the world would be a much more peaceful place.

Answer 3

It's sad that a lot of people immediately jumped on Islam.

I don't need to remind anyone that Timothy McVeigh was a good 'ol Christian boy do I?

Anyway back to the question.

Emotions are easy. You don't have to think. You just have to feel. It is far easier to teach hatred than it is to teach math.

In fact, thinking is discouraged. Thinking encourages questioning authority, questioning the reasons, or just asking "Why?".

Logical thinking is much harder. It takes effort. You construct a set of reasons or abstract concepts and build. Logical thinking is very rigorous. Logical thinking uses concrete evidence. All these go beyond the ease or onvenience of the "knee-jerk reaction".

Thinking emotionally also serves as a distraction from the real problems. It gives them a focus on something other than their plight, because if they did think about their plight they may revolt against those that lead them.

I want to stress that this applies to all extremists, religious or otherwise.

As a rule, the human race has always been quicker to fear and hate than it has been to understand.

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Answer 4

Islamic hatred, which of course extends to all “infidels,” prompts Muslims to reduce their enemies to the subhuman level. Writing on the subject in The New York Times (December 18, 1994), Steven Erlanger quotes the celebrated Russian author Leo Tolstoi, who had this to say about the Muslim reaction to the Russian destruction of a Chechen village: “The emotion felt by every Chechen, old and young, was stronger than hatred. . . .
"It was not hatred, it was a refusal to recognize these Russian dogs as men at all, and a feeling of such disgust [and] revulsion ... that the urge to destroy them—like the urge to destroy rats, venomous spiders, or wolves—was an instinct as natural as self-preservation.”

Israel is confronted by enemies whose gory paganism is obscured by a counterfeit monotheism, which prompted Ibn Warraq to write "Why I am Not a Muslim." But what statesman has the wherewithal to expose this colossal world-historical fraud, which now enthralls more than a billion believers in the Quran? A multitude of professors and journalists in the so-called free world now fear for their lives should they reveal the truth about Islam.


We must bear in mind that Arabs do not think the way we do, so their conclusions are not rational ones. And their hate for a Jewish state far exceeds their desire to have another Arab state for their own.

Thus, when the Jews left them hothouses in Gaza, so that the Arabs could prosper economically, the Arabs chose to dismantle the hothouses for scrap. And to turn the pipes into launchers for the Qassam rockets. And to dwell in poverty because they don't have the hothouses to provide income.

Hard to believe!

Answer 5

Your question is premised on fear and hate. You have provided no support for your premise, and no examples.

You are making an assumption. Remember, to assume makes an *** out of you and me.

I would have appreciated more clarification.

I am a Christian, rearing my child in the Christian faith. I am not teaching him to hate, and I was not taught to hate. We do believe certain lifestyle choices lead to degeneration, and so we teach our children to avoid those choices, for themselves.

I do not equate that with hate.

Answer 6

Children are not for parents, but parents are for children. If the parents really love thier kids, let them be free.

Why is our world always experienced so many wars? Its because of extremism, there is not only religious extremism, but also political.

We see radical Islam, Zionists extremists, Bush, Hitler, Nazis etc, etc. Just look at our world's history.

Answer 7

They teach their children to hate because of fear. They fear people coming and destroying their beliefs, so they try to make their children intolerant of others, so that they can not be swayed. By creating that distance between them, there is a good chance that the children will hold on to the beliefs of the parents.

It really is a selfish thing to do to your children.

Answer 8

Conflict starts in the minds of men, and then is shared with those around them. Religions tend to provide conflicted people with ammunition for their violence with such dangerous ideas as purity and the one true church. If you add missionary zeal to this, so that it is important that you convince everyone else to see the same truth, you have a recipe for hate. You have to be very twisted up inside to teach hate to your children in the name of God, but we have no shortage of such behavior. Societies may start needing to consider the mental health of such people, as they are endangering us all with this foolishness. "my dad is bigger than your dad" should be left of the playgrounds of early childhood and not brought into the arena of politics in the nuclear age.

Answer 9

Simple. Most parents want there children to grow up believing the same basic things wether or not the child knows why to believe it.

Answer 10

Philosophical insecurity. They know their theologies are flimsy so they're compelled to persecute everyone who doesn't believe (i.e. who threaten their worldview) in order to purge all reason from the social milieu.