Violence in the name of religion

@mookhor (304)
India
October 22, 2008 3:02am CST
From Orissa to Karnataka to Madhya Pradesh and Jaipur to Delhi to Ahmedabad to .. endless I do not understand what is the gain of a man or a group of a man who engage themselves in burning the religious centers or killing the people of a different faith. But it happens and it has been happening throughout the centuries. Christians and Muslims and again Hindus and Muslims and this way many religious followers of opposing sects are at daggers drawn for so many years. They do not understand what a loss they have been afflicting upon human civilization. Have you anything to suggest how this ruthless violence in the name of any registered religion may be controlled if not stopped for good ?
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• India
22 Oct 08
We have to respect other religion and there practices.I think all religion teaches the same thing.Here no religion is better than any other religion.religious conversion is the main cause of all tensions in the world.I am totally against such practices.
@mookhor (304)
• India
1 Nov 08
Good you are. The problem is with the persons who have engaged themselves in the practices of any of the religions as they consider it is one of their religious tasks to preach what they find good. This teacher's instinct within them leads to conversion that is what you do not like at all. Again there is one more problem and none of the persons/institutions concerned are ready to accept it openly. The problem may be put in this way -- my card is sweeter than tat of yours. This is to mean that everyone wants to have supremacy over other whatever their religious texts may contain opposing this attitude. I feel agonized for the reason that people, generally innocent people and poor and hapless people are the regular victims most of the times. My disposition is such that any kind of coercion or any spectacle of bloodshed turns my days gloomy. Really. And I do not know where is the remedy. Anyway,thank you, dear friend.
• Tunisia
22 Oct 08
what could be done to stop this !!!! frankly I don't know, and I guess no one does neither will. as you have said "it happens and it has been happening throughout centuries" and it is likely to happen in the future. HOWEVER, I don't think it is A RELIGIOUS ISSUE but rather political. the only thing that might be done is to WISH more humanitarian leaders
@rsa101 (37933)
• Philippines
22 Oct 08
That is also very perplexing about human nature. All in the name of religion that they do that. Before it's purely religion they were fighting for but nowadays it is mixed with politics already that is why it has become a very complex problem.