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A non-aggressive religion?
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A non-aggressive religion?
November 24, 2016 at 3:47 pm
I wonder, just out of curiousity, is there any non-aggressive religion? One that doesn't say "believe or die". I Googled for such a thing and what I found wasn't a religion, it was just a member of it: the Norse god Thor who "was very popular as the protector of both gods and humans against the forces of evil. He even surpassed his father Odin in popularity because, contrary to Odin, he did not require human sacrifices".
So, what do you think - is there such a religion? Or are they all the same boring aggressive shit?
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RE: A non-aggressive religion?
November 24, 2016 at 3:53 pm
I'd say Christianity and you?

Quote: And thou shalt love the Lord thy God, with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole mind, and with thy whole strength. This is the first commandment.

 And the second is like to it: Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is no other commandment greater than these. Mark 12
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RE: A non-aggressive religion?
November 24, 2016 at 4:12 pm (This post was last modified: November 24, 2016 at 4:22 pm by Fake Messiah.)
(November 24, 2016 at 3:47 pm)Atheist_BG Wrote: I wonder, just out of curiousity, is there any non-aggressive religion?

Well is it not Jainism? They preach a doctrine of utter non-violence and have also inspired Mahatma Gandhi and then Martin Luther King, Jr. who acquired his commitment to nonviolence primarily from the writings of Gandhi so much so that he even traveled to India to learn the principles of nonviolent social protest directly from Gandhi's disciples.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: A non-aggressive religion?
November 24, 2016 at 4:23 pm (This post was last modified: November 24, 2016 at 4:25 pm by brewer.)
Masturbationism.

Well, you might get aggressive with yourself. Friction burns suck!
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RE: A non-aggressive religion?
November 24, 2016 at 4:26 pm
Raelians?
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RE: A non-aggressive religion?
November 24, 2016 at 4:35 pm
Jainism for sure. The more devout a person is the less dangerous they are. Even to insects.
God thinks it's fun to confuse primates. Larsen's God!






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RE: A non-aggressive religion?
November 24, 2016 at 4:39 pm
Definitely Jainism.
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RE: A non-aggressive religion?
November 24, 2016 at 4:40 pm
Funny how someone who called for the genocide of two million people is looking for a non-aggressive religion.
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RE: A non-aggressive religion?
November 24, 2016 at 5:41 pm
I was UU for a while. They weren't riling or riled about ANYTHING.
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RE: A non-aggressive religion?
November 25, 2016 at 2:59 am
(November 24, 2016 at 4:12 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote:
(November 24, 2016 at 3:47 pm)Atheist_BG Wrote: I wonder, just out of curiousity, is there any non-aggressive religion?

Well is it not Jainism? They preach a doctrine of utter non-violence and have also inspired Mahatma Gandhi and then Martin Luther King, Jr. who acquired his commitment to nonviolence primarily from the writings of Gandhi so much so that he even traveled to India to learn the principles of nonviolent social protest directly from Gandhi's disciples.

Yeah this is probably the closest, although it still has some unpleasant stuff if you scrape past the surface.
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