Sentences with phrase «religion for violence»

Yet we blame religion for the violence — EXCEPT WHEN IT»S OUR OWN, then we say «mental illness.»

All persons who use religion for violence and not part of that religion.

Not exact matches

«ACT for America has never, and will never, tolerate any bias, discrimination, or violence against anyone, based on their religion, gender, race, or political persuasion,» Act for America told Newsweek in a statement.

Why is it that wen Christians committ heinous acts of violence (and many, many Christians have, for centuries) they are called «bad people», but when Muslims commit heinous acts of violence, Islam is called a «bad religion»?

Atheists in the modern age really don't go for this kind of violence — they for the most part just ignore religion and go do something better.

If this one religion of three movements does not have the capacity to unequivocally renounce its own contradictions in violence, then perhaps it's time to move on to another set of beliefs that work for the good of all mankind.

For many centuries after Constantine I, the Roman Emperor from 306 to 337 A.D., backed Christianity as a common religion for the Roman Empire in the 4th century, Christians used violence and the threat of death to expand and maintain their control of populacFor many centuries after Constantine I, the Roman Emperor from 306 to 337 A.D., backed Christianity as a common religion for the Roman Empire in the 4th century, Christians used violence and the threat of death to expand and maintain their control of populacfor the Roman Empire in the 4th century, Christians used violence and the threat of death to expand and maintain their control of populaces.

Especially now, when religion is used as an excuse for violence, we need to hear these stories of partnership showing us how faith can bring us together to save lives and promote peace.

While I do not consider myself an expert on all the religious writings of all of the main religions in the world, I have read most of the main religious texts for most of the main world religions, and while it is not uncommon to find violent events being described in these other religious books, no other set of religious writings comes even close to describing the violence and bloodshed that one finds within the pages of the Hebrew Scriptures.

Precisely because Hitler accused Christianity of being a religion for the weak and effeminate, for slaves, introverts and cowards, the deutsche Christen took up the gauntlet and affirmed that Christianity, too, exalted courage and strength and did not shrink from violence.

The separation between church and state is slowly being dissolved, an atheist will NEVER be elected president, Christians believe that a woman should not be able to make decisions about her own body, religion is responsible for untold amounts of hate, violence, and bigotry.

When ppl put the blame for violence on religion, video games..

Though I wouldn't say that religion is the main cause for violence like «some» on here would.

I've no doubt (as an atheist who generally has a low opinion of religion) that religion can stop violence — for some people.

'' if even one person in the whole world stops for a moment from being violent due to their faith... then YES, religion can stop violence.»

I don't think the original question was asking for an absolute, just... can religion prevent violence.

Now for all those that have a fallacy - fetish out there... how can anyone show that religion can stop something (violence) from happening?

But sometimes people use religion as the excuse not to deal with violence — praying for god to take care of the violent people, rather than doing something about it themselves.

But if even one person in the whole world stops for a moment from being violent due to their faith... then YES, religion can stop violence.

And he did say that the use of violence to impose religion is to act against reason, and to act against reason is to act against the nature of God, for God has revealed himself as logos — the word and the reason by which all came to be and in which all coheres.

- Genesis 1 (100 % written)- The Unforgivable Sin (Revised and Expanded, 80 % written)- The Gospel According to Scripture (80 % written)- Pastoral Leadership (100 % written)- Close Your Church for Good (100 % written)- The Bible Mirror (20 % written)- Commentary on Esther (100 % written)- Jesus among Other Religions (10 % written)- A «Redeeming God» book series on the topic of divine violence (30 % written)

The reason why people bash religions so much is because historically a lot of violence has been perpetrated but this is only because of authorities that utilize religions and beliefs for their war campaigns and the «just» cause.

The same tax - dodging religion whose medæval dogma kept their parents from responsibly using contraception to avoid filling the ghettoes with unwanted, unsupervised, uneducated kids at the least crushing our national economy with welfare burdens and often slaughtering innocents with gun violence gets credit for a happy ending?

There is always potential for violence in a person who believes that their religion is the only way.

The family, along with the state today, has sought to control women through rigid definitions of sexuality and appropriate for itself reproductive rights and control over her body; violence and subjugation have been woven into institutionalized forms of religion whose patriarchal tenets have marginalized and domesticated the female and the feminine, shackling her and legitimizing violence against her.

Muslims unite against the intolerance within your religion and publicly denounce the violence, create groups that promote peace and anti-jihad sentiment and then come back to the table and ask for the same rights we have.

Muslims appear peace loving on the outside, but at the root of all, they are guided by venomous philosophy — Kuran, which teaches violence and intolerance for every other faith and religion.

It amazes me that atheist will say that religion is the cause of hate and violence in the world and then as they post comments that are full of hate and scorn for other humans.

But let us assume for a moment that the pope cited Emperor Old Word because he meant to initiate — however inartfully — a candid conversation with believers and nonbelievers about faith and reason and about religion and violence in the modern world.

anyone that would try to imply that religion is a unique cause for violence, as if men never used greed, polictics, science, power or aquisition of property to do violence.

The only thing more arrogant than the notion legitimate worship has only existed for the past 2 thousand years or so is the self denial that religion's past and present violence somehow doesn't exist.

For example, you said «If all the monotheistic religions would just focus on God ALONE, then the divisions and violence would stop.

They have done us a tremendous service by presenting the evidence that makes it impossible to deny the violence of religion and thus avoid taking responsibility for it.

Hard conversations are coming, perhaps legislation, around gun control, about hatred, racism, religion, about our culture's glorification of violence, our nationalism, and the divisions between us, yes, those conversations need to happen, but not just now: now is the time for grieving, now is the time for loving, for burying, for mourning with those who mourn, for gathering humanity together, and for compassion.

Christians have been using the Bible / religion to support violence, colonialism, slavery, ethnic cleansing, misogyny, anti-Semitism and religious intolerance for centuries.

intolerance, hatred, violence, etc. eradicate religion is a good starting point for the evolution and progress of mankind.

It is true, but no excuse for the Protestants involved, that many other factors, in addition to religion, were responsible for the outbreaks of violence.

They wrote: «We don't blame him for despising his very existence, since he is DIRECTLY and PERSONALLY responsible for thrusting terrible violence upon every other gender (all of them), race, sexual orientation, ethnicity, and religion... even though by all accounts he's a good guy who works hard, takes care of his family, tries his best to love his neighbor as himself, and all that other stuff that doesn't matter because we only regard him as part of a collective group to which we assign blame.»

The Abrahamic religions do and they're the only ones of real consequence globally as they are the ones with the greatest predilection for violence.

Show that we as a people KNOW the violence perpetrated on 9/11 and since is the radical extreme not the norm for a religion.

These people use religion as a tool for violence and i am ashamed so many people in america can not make this distinction.

Organized religion is a CULT that has fostered segregation, hatred, brutality, abuse, hypocrisy, subjugation of the uninformed and has been the basis for violence and wars for thousands of years.

It seems rather unfair to blame our medieval ancestors for something that pre-dates them by a few thousand years, and religion doesn't have a patent on violence and intolerance.

no religions that divide people and provoke violence; no possessions, a call for an earthly anti-capitalist utopia (although Lennon liked possessions and was pro-capitalism); no countries divided by borders, and provoking war and violence.

There is a saying that if you vote for a corrupt leader because he champions your race or religion, you deserve everything you asked for such as crime, robbery, violence and associated vices.

Following the murders at Charlie Hebdo in January, the agency funded several new research projects on security and violence — for example, into new mathematical models for social interactions — and increased its support for research on human behavior, the Middle East, the Muslim world, and religions in general.

In the Land of Blood and Honey Rated R for war violence and atrocities including rape, sexuality, nudity and language Available on DVD and Blu - ray Written and directed by Angelina Jolie, Land of Blood and Honey tells the story of a man and woman during the Bosnian War whose allegiances to their countries and religions keep them from furthering their relationship.

For Greater Glory - Interesting forgotten chapter of history doesn't make for a very interesting film, while at - odds violence and religion keep many potential viewers awFor Greater Glory - Interesting forgotten chapter of history doesn't make for a very interesting film, while at - odds violence and religion keep many potential viewers awfor a very interesting film, while at - odds violence and religion keep many potential viewers away.

Russell meanwhile argued that a mutual basis in fear intimately links cruelty and religion, characterizing Christianity's belief «that hell - fire is a punishment for sin» as «a doctrine of cruelty» responsible for centuries of violence: «the more intense has been the religion of any period,» Russell wrote, «the greater has been the cruelty.»

In his artistic practice, he used such diverse languages as sculpture, drawing, writing, collage, assemblage, installation, and video, integrating themes that reveal his character as a researcher and activist: the aesthetic investigation of language; the questioning of the Western world, power, and the rules that dictate the values of religion, art, justice, and the state; the reverence for women and eroticism; and the depiction of violence.