Religion and Violence

Religion and Violence

If I could wave my magic wand and have to choose whether to eliminate rape or religion, I would not hesitate to wipe out religion, "writes Sam Harris, who along with Daniel Dennett and Richard Dawkins is known as the Unholy Trinity of Atheism.

"Religion is supposed to be left human not for theological reasons, but-still says Harris in The End of Faith: Religion: Terror and the Future of Reason -" because religion has been a source of violence now and at all times in the past ".

Magnis Father once told me that more people are becoming atheists not because of philosophical or scientific thought. They became an atheist because of acts of violence committed by the followers of the religion. They see a contradiction between what is preached by what is done.

Once there was a deeply religious English. If not for the diligent worship, he was a diligent 'try' different religions. He was raised as an Anglican, educated as a Methodist, converted to Greek Orthodoxy through marriage, and married again by a Jewish rabbi.

As a journalist, he wanders geographically and intellectually. He gathered a pile of data on the involvement of all religions in the various wars in history. Results wandering 'spiritual' led to the book: god (lower case) is not Great. He wrote his name with every first letter upper case: Christopher Hitchens. He divides the chapters in the book based on the contributions of each religion to murder, war, and cruelty. All his life, he became an atheist preacher effective, especially against those who are victims of religious cruelty.

After Hitchens, Dan Baker wrote a book with the title written in lowercase and uppercase subheads with all: Godless, How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists. Answer: Because of religious violence.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali to Islam together with Hitch and Dan Baker to Christianity. He was born in Somalia, Muslim from the noble families. As a teenager, he entered the English-speaking Muslim schools and Saudi-funded. Saudi output of the teachers. In the spirit of his move from school to school tolerant Syafii new, very hard. Living with a hard stream is not her happy. He witnessed many acts of violence, especially women, in the name of religion.

He fled to Holland. Here, he got bad treatment of fellow Muslims. After the disappointment with the events of 11 September, after a reading of Herman Philipse Atheist Manifesto, officially he left Islam and claim to be atheist.

In 2004, Ayaan, who is now a member of the Dutch Parliament, wrote the script and provide a voice for the short film Submission. An actress, dressed in a see-through chador, tells of the suffering of the four female characters who are oppressed in the name of Islam.

Through a transparent chador, the audience sees the naked body that reads the verses of the Koran. This film certainly has provoked anger in the Netherlands hatta though. Producer, Theo van Gogh, was murdered on the street in Amsterdam. On top of his body and a knife inserted a letter containing a threat to Ayaan. He was appointed as the Time 100 Most Influential people in the world. "This woman is a major hero of our time," said Richard Dawkins, the atheist trinity member. Hirsi Ali became the goddess atheist world.

Hence, why people become atheists? Because they witnessed or experienced the violent acts committed in the name of religion. Religion itself is actually only a scapegoat. It could be the spark conflict because secular motives-for example, economics, politics, racism - but they covered her with a cloak of religion.

If we study history, we will soon know that the Palestinian conflict is the ethnic conflict (Jews comprised 22.9 percent of atheists, secular, and the remaining 21 percent of the Jewish religion and ethnicity consists of Arab Muslims and Christians); that the conflict in Northern Ireland due to ethnic-political issues, after the British established the Ulster Plantation in 1609; that the armed conflict between Pakistan and India on Kashmir caused by the policy of the British colonial government, and not because of the suggestion Scriptures, that the war in Iraq and Iran started from the seizure of territory, not because differences in school (shown after the war also known that the Shiite majority in Iraq).

What about the Sunnah and Shia conflict in various places in East Java, including Sampang? "Not because of differences of opinion, but because of differences in income," said NU officials are from the same area. Rois and Tajul, the brothers, was sworn in as caretaker Ijabi (Association of Indonesian Jemaah Ahlil Temple) in 2007. In 2009, they were involved in family conflict, partly because the issue of women students at the seminary Tajul.

Because the issue of income, Rois leave Shiism and switch opinions. He said, "I returned to Nahdhiyin, because of irregularities in the Shiite doctrine". At the end of 2011, Rois, by his own admission, let the people who agree with him to destroy the mass of territory and followers of his brother. Media reports, "Roisul Hukama lead the masses to attack Sunni neighborhoods and schools Tajul Muluk, a Shiite sensible". Islamic leaders, with greater revenues, and then beating the drums of war. The name of religion!

Who is lucky? Neither party. Rois and is not Tajul. Who is winning? Atheists. They have new ammunition. They will attribute acts of violence and cruelty toward religion. No matter what the actual cause of the problem came from economically, politically, ideologically, ethnically pure, or just a dispute between families in a poor village!

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