religious conflict has undoubtedly resulted in untold death and misery, would anyone disagree?
I can’t think of any belief that is simply based around violence. I would argue that it’s fanatics (of any and every description) that distort the basic tenets and twist things into something inflammatory, committing atrocities in the name of faith.
But I think that its religion and culture and history an psychological issues such as the ‘other’ and greed and fear and all that sort of stuff rolled into a huge big mess that is really the source of the problem, not just religion by itself.
I also think that sometimes people use religion as an excuse/a cover to commit or instigate violence, and that clever people use it to manipulate others – you take one (maybe not so clever) person with a pure harmless faith and twist it and them into a deadly weapon (which i think is the saddest bit)
I know there’s no simple answer, all we can do is lead by example
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