RE: Is It Possible for Humanity to Create a Peaceful World with Religion in it?
October 25, 2016 at 3:45 pm
(October 24, 2016 at 7:34 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Religion is not an inherently bad thing. Whether or not the world could be peaceful depends on what the religion consists of. What it teaches, what the faithful believe in regards to dignity of human life, etc.
By the more radical adherents every religion can be turned into a violent ideology. All the holy books are highly ambiguous and good people can draw from them as well as bad people. Both can feel entirely justified by picking the verses or suras to suits their nature.
But as I said, religion is just one idea or ideology to rally behind to make the world less peaceful. If it vanished, there's still no shortage of other ideas or ideologies. Unless humanity itself evolves to a point where we don't feel the need to safeguard our territory anymore, there won't be peace on earth.
At it's extreme, religion does nothing else than nationalism, racism or one of the many partisan ideologies. To form an exclusive group, a group thinking to be superior to anyone outside this particular circle and to bring "the others" to heel or to remove them entirely.