Has religion or lack of religion caused more evil in the world as it is?

Question

Bad Buddhist I have to give you a thumbs down Maos long march was not a war, but a reteat done in war time. it seems like you cut and pasted baised material

Answer 1

Sorry, but these are religious:

1860-65: American civil war (360,000)
1904-05: Japan vs Russia (150,000)
1914-18: World War I (8 million)
1917-21: Soviet revolution (5 million)
1914-18: World War I (8 million)
1939-45: World War II (55 million) including holocaust and Chinese revolution
1946-54: France-Vietnam war (600,000)
1950-53: Korean war (4 million)
1961-2003: Kurds vs Iraq (180,000)
1967-70: Nigeria-Biafra civil war (800,000)
1969-79: Idi Amin, Uganda (300,000)
1974-91: Ethiopian civil war (1,000,000)
1975-78: Menghitsu, Ethiopia (1.5 million)
1992-96: Yugoslavia's civil war (260,000)

I guess the 200,000 to 400,000 killed in the Rwandan massacre don't count.

Not that it matters because evil is in quality, not quantity, except by those that need the numbers to feel good about themselves.

Anyone with a passing interest in history knows thousands of years of atrocities are rooted in religion. Many of those people also know that none of them have been rooted in faith.

Slavery as an institution was rooted in religion from the beginning of the human record until it was eliminated as an institution (these days, while often rooted in religion, it's usually sexism, which oddly enough is also largely founded in religion). The Romans 'fed the Christians to the lions' in the name of their Pagan gods. 2000 years of Jewish persecution by Christians have little to do with a lack of religion, and only stopped because of the Holocaust. The Holocaust by the way displaced the Crusades as the greatest example of man's capacity for inhumanity. Hundreds of years of witch hunting (speaking of sexism) left thousands of women dead, usually because they wouldn't quietly accept a subservient role. Looking at today, Darfur is religious fanatics trying to destroy a native non-Islamic population (to the tune of 300,000 and counting).

Events like the Cultural Revolution, the Khmer Rouge and Stalin's purges (he made a point of wiping out The Russian Jewish population you say?--maybe that doesn't fit here perfectly then) are nothing new. The only new thing about them is that they weren't committed with church approval.

Faith is between the individual and God, and is a two way relationship. Religion is between the church and the individual and is a one-way relationship. While faith has been behind many acts of great individual evil, it hasn't been the source of events. On the other hand, not only has far more evil been caused by religion than a lack of religion, most of the evils done in the name of the church have been instigated by the church.

Answer 2

i will fairly say that intelligence is declining, even though if it fairly is via no ability because of faith, this is our society. Our cutting-edge society is in actuality telling us to in undemanding terms get a activity and not concentration on education, particular you might have new innovations, yet they are easily not innovations, they're basically remakes of previous innovations earlier made. we are surrounded, if not flooded, via extra ideas than ever, and the subject-unfastened 5 three hundred and sixty 5 days old might desire to be deemed a genius in the event that they have been thrown back in time almost one hundred years in the past, yet certainly, the extra smart persons are from almost 5 generations till now us while innovations have been flying out of nowhere. education and family contributors have been precise products back then, now each thing has grow to be each guy for themselves. no person cares approximately education anymore. So this is extra society then faith. I even have seen fairly non secular idiots who could not even bypass third grade math, and that i've got seen it with atheists too, so faith isn't a ingredient in that.

Answer 3

Lack of religion causes more evil in our world...
Ten commandments.. Thou shall not kill...
The commandments are pretty basic and yet...
I think that people who murder feel no shame and have no regrets or compassion. They don't think they will have a higher authority to answer too if they are not caught. I always feel God is watching what I do and I act accordingly..

Answer 4

Both answers are correct. It is the power-hungry calling themselves religious who are evil. People who truly have a sense of their own spirituality understand that it has nothing to do with others. It is a unique relationship with their God.

If anyone calls on you to do ANYTHING in the name of ANY religion, beware. It is power and control talking, not God (in any of his names). If God wants to communicate with us, He's fully able to - He doesn't need a third party.

Answer 5

Here is a list of wars that had some significant religious overtones (most though not strictly 'religious' wars) with deaths over 100,000:

War and # of deaths:
1915: the Ottoman empire slaughters Armenians (1.2 million)
1947: Partition of India and Pakistan (1 million)
1954-62: French-Algerian war (368,000)
1983-2002: Sudanese civil war (2 million)
1988-2001: Afghanistan civil war (400,000)
1992-99: Algerian civil war (150,000)

Here is a list of *non-religious* wars:

*1860-65: American civil war (360,000)
*1886-1908: Belgium-Congo Free State (3 million)
*1899-02: British-Boer war (100,000)
*1899-03: Colombian civil war (120,000)
*1904-05: Japan vs Russia (150,000)
*1910-20: Mexican revolution (250,000)
*1911: Chinese Revolution (2.4 million)
*1912-13: Balkan wars (150,000)
*1914-18: World War I (8 million)
*1916: Kyrgyz revolt against Russia (120,000)
*1917-21: Soviet revolution (5 million)
*1928-37: Chinese civil war (2 million)
*1931: Japanese Manchurian War (1.1 million)
*1932-33: Soviet Union vs Ukraine (7 million)
*1934: Mao's Long March (170,000)
*1936: Italy's invasion of Ethiopia (200,000)
*1936-37: Stalin's purges (13 million)
*1936-39: Spanish civil war (600,000)
*1939-45: World War II (55 million) including holocaust and Chinese revolution
*1946-49: Chinese civil war (1.2 million)
*1946-54: France-Vietnam war (600,000)
*1948-1958: Colombian civil war (250,000)
*1950-53: Korean war (4 million)
*1958-61: Mao's "Great Leap Forward" (38 million)
*1960-96: Guatemala's civil war (200,000)
*1961-2003: Kurds vs Iraq (180,000)
*1964-73: USA-Vietnam war (3 million)
*1965-66: Indonesian civil war (200,000)
*1966-69: Mao's "Cultural Revolution" (11 million)
*1967-70: Nigeria-Biafra civil war (800,000)
*1969-79: Idi Amin, Uganda (300,000)
*1971: Pakistan-Bangladesh civil war (500,000)
*1972: Burundi's civil war (300,000)
*1974-91: Ethiopian civil war (1,000,000)
*1975-78: Menghitsu, Ethiopia (1.5 million)
*1975-79: Khmer Rouge, Cambodia (1.7 million)
*1975-89: Boat people, Vietnam (250,000)
*1975-87: Laos' civil war (184,000)
*1975-2002: Angolan civil war (500,000)
*1976-93: Mozambique's civil war (900,000)
*1976-98: Indonesia-East Timor civil war (600,000)
*1979-88: the Soviet Union invades Afghanistan (1.3 million)
*1980-88: Iraq-Iran war (1 million)
*1988-2004: Somalia's civil war (550,000)
*1989-: Liberian civil war (220,000)
*1991-97: Congo's civil war (800,000)
*1991-2000: Sierra Leone's civil war (200,000)
*1991-: Russia-Chechnya civil war (200,000)
*1992-96: Yugoslavia's civil war (260,000)

Answer 6

Lack...People who misunderstand or interpret religion in a "bad" way are also to blame. People with no fear are to blame. Religion in its purest form with teach to get along with one another and not use violence as a mean.

Answer 7

Read up on history. Religion has caused more pain and suffering in this world than anything else in existance. Save, maybe, disease.

Answer 8

The bible and the quran actually inspires evil in the world. Look at Islam. We are being attacked in their Jihad because of their Quran. In the bible, it says to actually stone those that do not follow God.

Answer 9

Lack of religion or creation of your own religion. Misinterpretation of religion by those with authority.

Answer 10

If we had no religion then fewer people would be murdered. Religion, not money, is the root of all evil.