{"id":115736,"date":"2021-07-03T14:55:21","date_gmt":"2021-07-03T21:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=115736"},"modified":"2021-07-03T14:55:21","modified_gmt":"2021-07-03T21:55:21","slug":"religions-and-violence-part-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/07\/03\/religions-and-violence-part-two\/","title":{"rendered":"RELIGIONS AND VIOLENCE PART TWO"},"content":{"rendered":"

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

The\ncurrent developments of the management of religions or the operation of\ncorporate religions needed to be debated by all religions unless ordinary\nbelievers may attempt to rationally think that Karl Marx\u2019s opinion on the\nreligion was accurate that it was a substance like opium, which deviates human\nbeing from the right path to the wrong way through false consciousness. Is the\nfaith of religion not a material thing that is possible to cause harm to\nothers? Why people are believing one religion attempts to insult another\nreligion or its believers? The answer to these problems would be the attitudes\nof people or how people think about other religions without a clear\nunderstanding of the philosophy of that religion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About\n95% of people in the world have gained a religion by birth based on the\nreligious faith of their parents. When religions spread in this way like a\nfamily heritage, people do not understand the philosophy of other religions or\neven the philosophy of their religion and how they should respect others. Some\npeople are too much aligned to own religion as educators of the religion\ncultivate in the minds of kids that only right faith is their religion but\nothers faiths or religions are mythical or evil things without knowing the\nfacts and details of other faiths. In this way, hate against other faiths or\nreligions begins and later it continues to provoke people to take part in\nviolence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When\nlooking at the history of all religions, it can be seen that religious writers\npromoted violence using fabricated stories, and many people don\u2019t understand\nthe message of religions. The philosophical views of many religions were\ncontained in ancient books of which authors were difficult to trace or it was\nnot sure whether the books were written by authors for the explanation of\nreligious philosophies. The obvious nature of these written contributions was\nthat authors wanted to make additions to literature based on fascinating\nthoughts, which were in their minds. The objectives of writers were not clearly\nexplained, but they were believing religious mysteries, faiths, or truth\nwithout a scientific assessment. It is quite clear that many writers had no\nintention of writing religious mysteries or disclosing divine intentions. They\nwere merely fabricated or manipulated stories; however, later religious\nteachers converted these fabrications to religious values, which might apply in\na variety of practical situations in the world. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nstyle of writing shows that authors wanted to attract readers by writing\nattractive mythical stories rather than developing religious principles to be\nbelieved or worshipped or practiced by religions in the latter days. Sometimes\nthe same story or writing has been repeated by several religions. For example,\nthe Bible, Book of Mormon, and Quran present similar stories and Jataka\nstories, and many Hindu books provide comparable stories. Certain stories or\nreadings in old religious books contradict modern religious views and laws.\nJesus Christ rejected many approaches of the Old Testament, showing that they\nwere not divine rules. Therefore, it is essential to careful reading of many\nancient religious books because readers need to comprehend the messages of\nbooks rather than the literal meanings of the stories of the book. The other\nsignificant aspect of the books was that writers focused on the society at\ntheir times and the understanding ability of readers in their times and they\nnever imagined the probable changes in the future world of harms could have\nhappened in the society because of the readings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 When people are reading religious books such\nas the Old Testament, Quran, Bhagawath Geetha, Jataka Stories, Book of Mormon,\nand many others, they might misunderstand the messages contained them as some\nbooks are carrying violent stories or motivations that are unacceptable to the\ncurrent society, which is supposed to promote peace, unity, and harmony among\nthe members of the community. The developing hate among various religions is\nharmful to the existence of society and many people have an idea that the world\nis better than without religions as the violence promoted by believers of\nreligions is entirely against the religious philosophy. It would not open the\ngate of heaven but it might open the gate of hell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How\nthe concept of time originated in this world is explained in many religious\nbooks with the creation and this time was how to measure was not known by\nanyone. Many religious books explain that the magnitude of the universe cannot\nmeasure and humans are a tiny part of the universe and humans to understand the\nuniverse take time and need to take a massive effort and it will take time.\nAccording to current information, as religions believe, there was no fixed\nbeginning to the universe, and similarly, there will not be a fixed ending to\nthe universe. There may be planets with humans like us or different. They might\nstudy about us and try to understand the nature and the behavior of the\ncreator.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

According\nto our knowledge, people were born into this world and they died after that\nindividuality ended and names extend to a certain period if people accept a\nparticular person should be in memory otherwise they ended. This is the truth\nof religion, irrespective of any religion will be the truth. When people are\nweak, they worship religions, thinking that religions can help to get away from\nproblems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nother vital fact is because believing in aligning to religion in peaceful\nMannar would not be harmful to the society, frequently, it will be helpful the\nsociety.      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS The current developments of the management of religions or the operation of corporate religions needed to be debated by all religions unless ordinary believers may attempt to rationally think that Karl Marx\u2019s opinion on the religion was accurate that it was a substance like opium, which deviates human being from the right […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edward-theophilus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}