Results: War On Religion

No religion is inherently violent. No religion is inherently peaceful. Religion, any religion, is a matter of interpretation, and it is often in that interpretation that we see either beauty or ugliness — or something in between. This is for any religion -- Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism or Buddhism. No religion is inherently peaceful or violent, nor is it inherently anything other than what its followers make it out to be. People are violent, and people can dress their violence up in any number of justifying causes that seek to relieve people of their personal responsibility because the cause or religion, be it Communism or Catholicism or Islam, is simply bigger than themselves. Do you agree or disagree?

Someone who commits horrific acts in the name of religion or God or whatever is usually "justified" in their extreme behavior and thoughts by what they think their religion teaches them. Christianity can be violent, as seen in many parts of the Middle East, in Europe, and in America in recent decades. With Judaism, Hanukkah celebrates in part the victory of the radical, purist Jews over their assimilated, Hellenized brethren, Yishai Schlissel, who stabbed six at a gay pride parade in Jerusalem — and that was his second attack on the LGBT event and Baruch Goldstein, the guy who killed 29 Muslims as they prayed. Even Buddhism, which many imagine to be the very definition of peace, can be bloody. Just look at Sri Lanka, where a Buddhist majority fought a vicious civil war against the Hindu north, or Myanmar, where Buddhists have violently persecuted the Muslim Rohingya. Some may think the world would be better off without any religion at all. Do you agree?