Abrahamic Religions and their Holy Books

[abaris]

@xpastor

I think you also have to look at the problem from a political perspective.

All the holy books preach violence when you know what you're looking for. The reason why we don't see large scale violence from radical christians or radical jews is that they're quite comfortable in their political and social environment. Incidents happen nevertheless, such as bombing abortion clinics or killing doctors or the slaughter Barruch Goldstein commited in a mosque. Relatively isolated incidents, but the potential for violence is existing, it only lies dormant.

Now look at the Middle East. It is in flames. Whole generations grow up without having any perspective in life and so radical preachers have a field day. If you got nothing to lose in life, you can at least have a glorious death and a prominent place in paradise. By the way, that's the same argument the christian priests used to motivate people for their crusades. Radical Islam is a relatively new phenomenon. It grew on the fertile soil of ongoing conflict.