Is religion the ultimate disturber of peace?

Question

1. a set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe, esp. when considered as the creation of a superhuman agency or agencies, usually involving devotional and ritual observances, and often containing a moral code governing the conduct of human affairs.


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Answer 1

Religion is an evolved cultural behavior that arose because it served basic human needs. These are the need to answer the unknown, such as the question of death and why bad things happen. It also serves to implement psychological mores for stable reproduction for societies which were largely for most of humanity illiterate and needing some dominant figure to keep order.

People use their religious labels in war in order to present group identification, religion is simply a label in many cases and used to justify unethical acts. It is shown that the higher ones intelligent quotient the less likely their chance of being a religious fanatic.

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Answer 2

True religion is the disturber of peace, because it causes animosity between the selfish and the selfless. Father may hate son, brothers maybe divided. Those who are selfish egotists whom see themselves as Gods will always find religion a disturbance to their goals.

Answer 3

For society as we know it all around Religion brought along the ideas of common morals before that the word peace didnt exist.

How long has the world had true peace for during human civilization regardless of religion? There will always be people willing to fight even if it didnt exist.

Answer 4

Many would agree, but is likely controversial...

“Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that.” – Richard Dawkins

“We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love each other.” -- Jonathan Swift

“With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.” – Steven Weinberg (1933 - ), The New York Times, April 20, 1999

“All three of our major religions -- Christianity, Islam and Judaism -- have a hateful idea at the very core. That idea is Exclusion: the "othering," if you like, of the unredeemed.” -- Matthew Parris ... ... ... ... and on and on and on and on...

Answer 5

Sadly it is, despite the fact that religions originate with the opposite intention. Human egos become very attached to "being right.." Someone has to be "wrong" to make that possible

Answer 6

That's sort of like saying that the gun is the ultimate cause of murder, when in fact it is the human being wielding the gun that causes the murder. So, it is not religion, per say, that is the ultimate disturber of peace, but the people the wield religion to their own agenda.

Answer 7

Religion is the ultimate road to peace

People who abuse religion are a major source for the disturbance of peace.

Answer 8

Greed and hatred of those that are different is the greatest disturber, in my opinion.

But religion makes for a convenient justification of this behavior.

Answer 9

The only true peace comes in relationship with the Lord.

Answer 10

When Jesus came, he did not come to bring peace, but to build a bridge between us and God.