Who created the fanaticism within the religions ?

Question

Someone once sang,"Reach out and touch somebody cares and make this world a better place".Yes it seems abstract at this point of time and age.But being really of common reason it should not allow us to go beyound that realm of Understanding of what it is to reach out and touch..whoever.

Answer 1

Who created the fanaticism within the religions ?

STOP LOOKING AT ME LIKE THAT! I DIDN'T DO IT!!!

Answer 2

Great question... Religious fanaticism is as old as religion itself. At one time Christ himself was considered by some to be a fanatic... as well as all his followers. So the word fanatic is relative to who is speaking... And Christs message had truth and goodness in it which proved out... And the current Islamic fanaticals believe that they have truth and God/ Allah on their side. The current Islamic fanaticals are classic examples of "True Believers".... those who have nothing to lose, those who possess little, those who have paltry hope in this world because of their society... background and education... and they are open and easy prey to anyone who offers them a dream... In the case of the Islamic it is jubilation in heaven and the gift of numerous virgin brides... These sorts of revolutionary ideas repeat themselves through history.... The Nazis, the Communists, the bolsheviks, the Stalinists... all offered some sort of hope that took the poor and disenfranchised out of their dull and tedious existence... But dullness and tedium alone do not make the kind of craziness that we are finding with the Islamic Fanaticals... what creates that sort of fervor is a leader... like a Hitler.. or like a Bin Ladin or a Charles Manson..or a Jim Jones.... who can break peoples minds down in such a complete way as to leave them without their basic humanity. A kind of mass hypnosis... when you truly believe that you have your God on your side and you have little to lose then you are a perfect candidate for such a twist on the Islamic religion as embraced by the Terrorists.... All religions and all political ideologies have the danger of being taken absolutely by the certain lunatic fringe...Even many of our own people in the US not so long ago believed that God was on their side in perpetuating slavery... and had many quotations from the Bible which they believed proved them right... Many white supremacists in our own culture are ready to kill or become terrorists for their beliefs...And not so long ago in our own South... terrorism was a way of life... and yes many died and probably still do in the hand of White Supremacy... so possibly the Bin Ladin followers are just more organized and determined than our own home grown terrorists... with the exception of the Oklahoma City bombers.. The fanatics are not created by a single person they are there ready and waiting when there is a society that is disenfranchised and is out of sync with the rest of the world... when they are isolated by their culture and by their religion or by their wealth... such as the Arabs... It is inevitable that the fanaticism would surface... it only takes someone such as a Bin Ladin to turn the fanaticism to a dangerous and life threatening jihad... Probably Eric Hoffer's "True Believer" book best answered what is happening now... it should be on everyones reading list to understand what's really happening in Iraq... Because these Islamic Terrorist are nothing new... just their methods are more modern and sophisticated... and therefore more problematic to solve.. and the breeding ground for them could last 2 or 3 more generations because of the impoverishment of their country mixed with the isolationist tendency of their religion...

Answer 3

somehow i think it has to be the Evangelist billy graham that televised ways to be with him on his TV show that brought through this media an enlightened feeling of participating in the fact you could touch the TV and it was him and in reality it wasn't so the media brought us a threshold that is not new but is the one u want answered here and there are other transitional too, the Lutheran hour was great for kids to grow up on when TV hit the fifties and was being a guiding light type of program

Answer 4

I don't think anyone specific created fanaticism. I think it came from within ourselves because of our own egotism. We, as a whole, like to believe that we are right and everyone else is wrong. And that is what fanaticism is at its very basic core.

Answer 5

Someone also sung about what the world would be like if people were to imagine there was no heaven or hell. in other words he was saying how much better it would be if people lived in reality instead of believing in nonsense like heaven and hell and fighting over who had the "real" god.

Answer 6

The concept of religion was created with political intent, it is use as a means of controlling its followers to do what the leader of that religious group wanted and in addition, through peer pressure and the manipulation of promises of 'love' , 'immortality', 'heaven' etc. binds them and prevents them from leaving the group.
Fanaticism is thus encouraged, though many tend to not use this term in reference to their followers of 'great faith', as it allows the leader(s) almost complete control over these fanatics.
Take the Norse myh for example, the followers were encouraged to fight in battle for their leaders. Thus it was introduced in their religion that those who die in battle shall ascend to their version of heaven/utopia and those who died not in battle but of illness etc. shall end in the realm of Hel (later reused by christianity as their netherworld's name).
In many cultures, the king or ruler would claim to be chosen by the divine, a decendent of the god(s), an avatar of a god, an enlightened super-human or even as a god. These are mechanics used to secure the rule of that/those human rulers over the population, as it instill in those who believed in these religion(s) to thus not question or rebel against their ruler(s) and to follow their order without thought or question in fear of divine punishment for doing otherwise OR out of drive to obtain what their religion (religious leader) has promised them (aka. fanatism).

Answer 7

Politicians, who in order to fill their pockets make people fight over religion. They do this by deploying leaders to train uneducated people and creating a false sense of belief. When the leaders deployed by the politicians do not get their dues they also fight them back.

Answer 8

Misinterpretation of religious believes

Answer 9

fanatics

Answer 10

.....,low level of education..................