2007-03-08 16:37:07 · 4 answers · asked by wayne k 1 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
Church is of the people. Individuals make up the church. A choice of faith or fear is decided by the indviduals.
2007-03-08 16:47:54 · answer #1 · answered by lee c 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Aren't church's instruments of terrorism themselves? Look at how they devastated Native Americans in Latin America. It is interesting how the Church and the state were connected then as they are now.
Ask a gay person in a religious and intolerant family? I mean in Canada and in Mexico gay people are allowed to get married/form civil unions!
The Churches and the Government work together it is they who instill further fear, fear that if you do not behave/act in certain ways you are defective as a citizen and as a person. You become a threat to the government when you speak up for what you believe in. I am more afraid of this than I am of terrorists. I am more afraid of what we allow the government to justify in the name of protecting us than I am of terrorists; and I am a New Yorker.
2007-03-08 17:40:39 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
an ineresting question, could be true. humanity has generaly always need a mass collective of fear. from the fear of invassion, hell, nuclear war, aliens and now the fear of being blown up by a stranger in public or landed on my a large plane. it is sad to see we can walk around on the moon but still play into this fear dynamic. i also think that we create our enemies. the manifest with our own prophisies. if enough people with enough power believe we will end in an all out nuclear war, then believe me, it will happen. it nearly did several times durring the cold war. unfortunately, we still have idiots in power such as Bush. look at the mass of enemies that have been created and are being generated by the illegal invassion of Iraq. collectively, humanity still has a long way to go before we can realy live in real sustainable peace on earth. would be interested on your further feed back
2007-03-08 16:53:42 · answer #3 · answered by jasonpfn 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I tend to think that it has, especially when it comes to bill passage such as Patriot Act, Read ID Act, Military Commissions Act of 2006. It's uncanny how many individual freedoms have been restricted under the demise of protection from terrorism.
Good question.
2007-03-08 16:49:11 · answer #4 · answered by Tara 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋