RE: There are no "Religions of peace".....
March 17, 2019 at 7:56 pm
(This post was last modified: March 17, 2019 at 7:57 pm by fredd bear.)
(March 17, 2019 at 12:39 pm)no one Wrote: Humans are just fucking awful creatures, no matter what order they align themselves with.
Well, not all of us, just most of us.
My perception is that human beings are innately self serving (the philosophical a position is called "egoism")
The term 'religious war" is an oxymoron .Wars are never started on moral or religious grounds, although both sides usually claim both motives.
Wars are only ever started for one or both of two reasons; to take something the other chap has, or to stop the other chap from taking something I have.
Wars are started by cynical men who convince their gormless young me to go to another country and kill their gormless young men.
It's pretty easy to motivate young men to kill each other. They started doing it long before there were such things as organised religions. Claiming to fight on moral or religious grounds are excuses, not reasons
Human beings have wars because we like war. A 'just reason' is always easy to find. If we didn't love war, there wouldn't be any, or at least far fewer--when in human history has there ever been a time without a war somewhere?
Please don't misunderstand my position; I consider organised religion the greatest confidence trick ever perpetrated on the human race. That without exception, religion always reflects the society which invents it. Therefore, to blame religion for war or to say religions exist for war, is I think a bit simplistic. In reality, all religions are reactive, not proactive.
