by monotheistic i mean christianity, islam, by dharmic i mean religions that believe in karma such as hinduism buddhism, jainism, mainly hailing from the south asian region.
2007-02-27 21:36:03 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
cause they learn to get along wid each other n that fighting is not the way around to anything,
2007-02-27 21:40:38 · answer #1 · answered by shilpa n 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What about Zoroastrianism the world's oldest monotheistic religion? The Zoroastrians have not been at war in well over a thousand years.
The Coptic Orthodox Church has been around for a similar amount of time as the Catholic church (it was founded in 42AD) and at no point in almost 2000 years of history has the Coptic church been involved in a war.
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Bahá'à faith is a pacifist religion based upon Islamic and Christian ideas. It has 6 million followers and has existed for well over a century.
Have you read the Bhagavad Gita? This is one of the main Hindu texts and the priciple characters in it are mostly armed warriors (Arjuna for example).
Japan (a nation with a major Buddhist population) has instigated many wars with other nations and between 1478 and 1605 was continually in civil war (this was called the Sengoku or "warring states" period).
So my answer is the reason why all monotheistic religions are always at war and all dharmic religions are peacefully free is that this state of affairs exists only in fiction and in the real world of history there are many monotheistic religions that have never fought in wars and many dharmic ones that have been involved in many major wars.
The state of affairs is that basically Western Nations have been involved in many wars over land and resources and there has not been an official religious war in the west since the Turkish conquered Byzantium over 500 years ago. Without exception every other war in Europe has been political rather than religious since then. Even in major conflicts like the second world war the Catholic Church, Islamic leaders and Orthodox Patriarchs kept neutral. The only religious leader involved in the war was King George VI of Great Britain who was involved in his capacity as head of state rather than as the head of the Church Of England.
I'm sorry if this is not to your liking but that is just the past and what has happened. Have a great day my friend.
2007-02-27 22:24:17 · answer #2 · answered by monkeymanelvis 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Religions do not cause war of themselves. Only people can do that, and they do it only because they are greedy for power.
A religion with truth in it will propagate itself quite easily.
There are reports that in hinduism, people are killed for touching the wrong person. It is easily forgotten that at one time in India, wives were sacrificed after the deaths of their husbands. It needs to be asked though, Which Hindus did these things? What are their names? Name the criminals.
Same with monotheism. And how do you verify the accuracy of the reports?
The Japanese samurai followed a suicidal code of Bushido, that is reported to have come from buddhism. If there were samurai who didn't believe in these rules, please give me a name.
Individual people commit violent crimes. Thoughts and opinions don't do that of themselves. A book cannot become a weapon unless you pick it up off of a table, and hit someone with it.
Monotheism isn't dangerous unless an evil person decides to do with it what is criminal.
2007-02-27 21:50:53 · answer #3 · answered by Bubba 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I am not saying that Hindus are never involved in wars but all the Hindus I have met are so peaceful- they literally wouldn't kill a fly if they could help it. People's characters are not necessarily dictated to by their religion- the Muslims who live near me are great and my friends. However, when any religion is used for control and fear- the spirituality and morality goes and it becomes based on greed and politics.
2007-02-27 21:46:53 · answer #4 · answered by brainlady 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Hindus are at war all over the Indian subcontinent. war in Sri Lanka with Tamils. War in Kashmir, war(almost) with PAK. Plenty of war. Same in other places with other religions. Religions are not peaceful anywhere.
2007-02-27 21:43:54 · answer #5 · answered by U-98 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Christianity is pagan
What was religion of those terrorists who killed humankind with atom bombs in Heroshima and Nagasaki? Christianity
Hinduism is pagan. Hindus killed 90,000 muslims in kashmir
2007-02-27 21:44:09 · answer #6 · answered by Punter 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
because monotheistic religions are all told that they are the one true religion
2007-02-27 21:41:00 · answer #7 · answered by aleta_uk_0 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1 God = No alternative points of view allowed.
Many gods = You do your thing, I'll do mine.
2007-02-27 21:40:56 · answer #8 · answered by ShogiO 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Have you not been to Kashmir, then?
2007-02-28 03:17:39 · answer #9 · answered by mesun1408 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋