2007-07-21 18:51:08 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Religion brings out the worst in people. It's an inherently violent, hateful institution.
2007-07-21 18:53:59 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 3⤋
Many people believe that one's own opinion or belief must in fact be truth.. mix it w/intolerance and a need for violent self-vindication or defense of an ideal, and genocide is not out of the picture. Using religious beliefs or intellectual superiority beliefs may also may be a mask. It can be a way of self-intellectualizing a reason for "otherness" and contempt when in truth the reason could be just a dislike for other's appearances and/or culture.
2007-07-21 19:17:38 · answer #2 · answered by itsjunglepat 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The cold heart of man. Without God wickedness continually increases. Not all who cry Lord, Lord will enter into the Lord's kingdom. You can blame religion, you can blame the government but unless men self evaluate their cold hearts and what they do in the name of anything, you will have genocide.
"All men are created equal and endowed by their Creator" - keep this in your heart. Love all people and protect their right to life. Always STAND UP for what is right and for what is good.
2007-07-22 02:15:51 · answer #3 · answered by Jeancommunicates 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well...someone took a gun, or swords, and killed people.
Not that hard to explain....
Give an excuse? There isn't one...those people were evil and were taking the Lord's name in vain, doing Evil in the name of good where it is not welcomed.
Oh, but here is a secular rebuttal(assuming you're white) how do you explain the KKK, slavery, the murder of the Native Americans, the conquest and colonization of Africa?
It can go both ways...generalization is not a good thing.
2007-07-21 18:57:15 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
i do no longer think of any do, none that i've got ever learn besides. the genuinely physique count form of the Spanish inquisition became extremely small, and it wasn't an action committed to the extermination of a racial or ethnic inhabitants, so it would not particularly fall decrease than the definition besides.
2016-10-09 05:44:29 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People; especially those in power often lose sight of Christ's message of love and hope.Remember; even in NT times stoning someone to death was acceptable to the majority of clergy.
2007-07-21 18:58:09 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Simple the state and the religion were the same thing.
Both are looking for more power.
2007-07-21 18:56:37 · answer #7 · answered by Lost. at. Sea. 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Hos 6:1 Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.
Hos 6:2 After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.
You can also put the holocaust, wars between nations, etc. in those 'two days'. It was designed to be this way.
2007-07-21 18:55:30 · answer #8 · answered by witnessnbr1 4 · 0⤊ 3⤋
W-a-r and T-o-r-t-u-r-e
"We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity." -- Anne Coulter, Christian Peace Activist
Conquer,Convert or kill them.
"The three-in-one/one-in-three mystery of Father, Son and Holy Ghost made tritheism official. The subsequent almost-deification of the Virgin Mary made it quatrotheism . . . Finally, cart-loads of saints raised to quarter-deification turned Christianity into plain old-fashioned polytheism. By the time of the Crusades, it was the most polytheistic religion to ever have existed, with the possible exception of Hinduism.
This untenable contradiction between the assertion of monotheism and the reality of polytheism was dealt with by accusing other religions of the Christian fault.
The Church - Catholic and later Protestant - turned aggressively on the two most clearly monotheistic religions in view - Judaism and Islam - and persecuted them as heathen or pagan.
The external history of Christianity consists largely of accusations that other religions rely on the worship of more than one god and therefore not the true God.
These “pagans” (Islam and Judaism) must therefore be converted, conquered and/or killed for their own good in order that they benefit from the singularity of the Holy Trinity, plus appendages." -- The Doubter's Companion (John Ralston Saul)
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2007-07-21 18:59:58 · answer #9 · answered by wwhy 3 · 0⤊ 5⤋
God is perfect and his plan is perfect and we can't understand it with our limited minds. God will not force anybody to do anything he won't force us to be good. Some people make choices to do evil things and that is part of living on earth.
2007-07-21 19:00:36 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋