why does religion inspire or incite so much hatred and violence?

Answer 1

Because religion is vague, ambiguous, deals with sensitive social issues, and most importantly deals with something everyones scared of: death. Thus, its easy for a charismatic leader to take all of these things about religion, easily manipulate them, and spoon feed them to the public, with both positive and negative reinforcement. If you do this, you get heaven, 42 virgins, whatever load of BS, but if you don't the world will come crashing down and they'll rape your babies!!!

Seriously. Religion is such a delicate tool that it is easily wielded by the wrong hands. Hatred and violence have nothing to do with faith and God, but everything to do with manipulation and fear.

Answer 2

Religion does not incite or inspire hatred and violence. It is the ignorant followers of religion who do. They misinterprete teachings of their respective religions and also lead others to believe those misinterpretations. This in turn results in violence and hatred towards followers of other religions.

Answer 3

It's a divisive label, but more than that. Unlike other labels, each religion claims to be an exclusive source of truth. Each religion mandates that its truth be spread at the expense of other religions. And each religion demands total dedication from its followers.

You can see how this would incite hatred and violence, no?

Answer 4

Religion is one of the most defining of human traits, it is a belief in something beyond ones self. It would fall by your judgment that the actions of the few make up the many. The religions of the world share the themes of peace, love, justice, forgiveness and tolerance. It is the people who interpret these teachings, who would corrupt the different religions. Religion is about faith. Faith is one of the most moving characteristics of human beings; it has inspired incredible acts of love and compassion in all denominations. When people supplant or misinterpret the teachings, terrible things can happen. No one religion can place blame; all have sinned out of fear, greed and anger. From the crusades of the Middle Ages, to terrorism today. A small minority within a group of people interpreted the messages of faith toward ignoble, immoral and self serving ends. We must work to understand the peaceful majorities of these religions. Only by understanding does a greater peace arise.

Answer 5

Which religions. Can you cite some examples of the hatred and violence you are talking about.

Except for the Middle East I see mostly calm.

Answer 6

This in opposition to the Quran who commands that there shall be no sects in Submission. God says that those who divide themselves into sects do not belong with the righteous (6:159, 30:32).
If we all truly worship one and the same God we should have no arguments with each other. Instead we should love each other. Unfortunately the human being revere other human beings and idolize them (most of the time against their will). All messengers and prophets brought the same message - worship God Alone.

Thus, ignorance and arrogance are two of the main ingredients in the mess that people create in the name of religion.

Answer 7

Mere religion is not what incites hate and violence. It is specifically the content of a religion along with humanity's inbred propensity to hate.

Answer 8

because its religion.

look at it htis way. imagine you have a book. in this book, written specifically for you by a person you have never seen before yet who claims they love you, this person tells you youre special. youre the greatest. they really go at it....stroking your ego. eventually you begin to beleive your special. somehow youre better tha neveryone else. on top of the world. top of the food chain.

then as youre walking dow nthe street you meet someone. they have the same book as you but its a different color. sudenly you realise that this person is a rival. now you two are vying for the love of this writer. you both fight, screaming that youre better, your book is true and their books is false, its acopy, its not real, its made up. the other person fights just as hard, saying the same things.

so basically...you both have books, these books tell you youre special. you beleive this so much youre willing to either die or kill to prove it.

hatred and violence are inherent in religion. it separates people into groups and feeds them kisses to the ASSal area.

you figure out the rest.

Answer 9

no religion preaches violence and hate. it is the people whose mind is predisposed to violence and hate, incite people to take the path of violence and to hate the people of other religions. those people who are called aggressive psychopaths, try to divide human beings on the basis of religion, caste, creed. if a man's mind is closed and fails to recognize truth, he begins thinking that his path is only correct and refuse to realize that there is truth is in other people's religions also. like a swan, which drinks milk and leaves water, one is to take good essence of the religion and leave bad contents if any. if our minds are open and we are ready to invite thoughts from other schools , there will be no room for hating others and we don't resort to the path of violence. there are several people like SWAMI VIVEKANANDA, MOTHER THERESSA, YOGI AUROBINDO, AND SEVERAL CHRISTIAN MISSIONARIES, who are inspired by religion and did noble service to mankind. but at the same time there are several atheists, who sacrificed their lives for a noble cause and doing service to the people without any selfish, vested interest. it is the mind which is pure ,open to all schools of thought,is important.

Answer 10

Happens when part of the believers try to establish their religion as the only truth and forcing people to accept their teaching, in short: intolerance