{"id":115738,"date":"2021-07-03T14:57:29","date_gmt":"2021-07-03T21:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=115738"},"modified":"2021-07-03T14:57:29","modified_gmt":"2021-07-03T21:57:29","slug":"religions-and-violence-part-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/07\/03\/religions-and-violence-part-one\/","title":{"rendered":"RELIGIONS AND VIOLENCE -PART ONE"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

What\u2019s\nthe prime aim of a religion? This question requires careful consideration\nbecause of the emergence of increased religious-based violence around the\nworld, where such violence has resulted in unmitigated human tragedy that no\nreligion is supposed to promote; can a religion promote violence amongst its\nbelievers or against the believers of other religions? Some people attempt to\nsay they are religious while supporting violence that detrimental to humans,\nand the history of various religions shows that violence had been promoted in\nthe name of religions. It could be considered that a lack of understanding of\nthe functions of religions and expectations from the religion might lead to\npromoting violence. No religion could be discharged from this accusation, more\naccurately could express the idea as religious philosophy may have not\ncontributed to violence, but religious followers took part in violent acts in\nthe name of religions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Religions\nwere created or invented by humans and the philosophical truth of messages of\nreligions has not been tested by inventors many times, and the truth and the\ncandour of religious philosophy are highly questionable regarding all\nreligions. If it considers without aligned to a particular religion, it would\nprovide mental abetment and such benefits are useful to humans. Every day\npeople have to face either simple or complicated issues in such a situation\nreligions extend massive support to humans to deal with issues, and in such\nsituations, religions provide tremendous support.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

How\nreligious contemplation absorbed human consciences is a quite difficult subject\nto comprehend, and it is associated with the process of human activation. Many\npeople who contribute to violence do not know of the religion or how religions\nwould judge violence, and they assume they know religion well, and to be more\naligned to a religious commitment when deeply analyse those people work it can\nbe seen that they accomplish anti-religious work. The inventor of religion is\nthe only person who knows about the truth of religion. The truth may be violent\npromotors know neither religion nor the expectation from religions is promoted\nby them. Various aspects of human experience associate with the way of acting a\nperson, but the religious aspect invades human consciences deeper and deeper\ncompared to others. Why this situation is an absolutely difficult situation\nthat works in the human brain which motivates some people to take part in\nviolent acts. Sometimes, it could observe those racist feelings to work like\nthis and the way the brain is working for religious feeling like racist feeling\nis at variance in a situation. Those are difficult psychological aspects that\nare broadly analyzed by a variety of practical situations.     <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To\nunderstand this situation, ideas of behaviourism philosophy may help to a\ncertain extent because they believe that behavior is caused by environmental\nconditions. This means the reality is matter, and motion influences behavior.\nAccording to this philosophical aspect, religious and racist motions are\nstimulated by environmental conditions and people might be violent when\nreligious and racist motion influence the living environment that could be\nchanged by religious and racist aspects. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ordinary\npeople of the world believe that religions aim to promote peace, unity, good\nhabits, the practice of merciful acts, love, and many other outstanding\nqualities of human life with no difference of religions. Many people blindly\nbelieve that only the religion they believe or practice is philosophically and\nsocially correct, and other religions aren\u2019t admonishing. History confirms that\nreligions emerged in this world long after humans manifested to this world.\nRecent discoveries on the planet Mars lead us to assume that humans or species\nlike humans were on Mars, and unknown reasons contributed to destroying them.\nDid they follow religions? Religious leaders in neither religion come forward\nto explain this complicated situation, and they will be preferred to practice\nviolence rather than educating potential changes to the religion they practice.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\nmay feel now as though religious faith is a more mythical concept than an\nactual practice or way of life. The spiritual values of all religions are equal\nand nobody can discriminate one against another as they are in the\naforementioned status. Therefore, all humans have an irrevocable responsibility\nto respect all religions. The authenticated truth is many people disrespect\ncertain regions and value other selected religions. This situation associate\nwith politics, culture, attitudes, and many other desires of people.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many\npeople visit religious places of worship such as temples, churches, mosques,\nsynagogues intending to gain peace of mind. People encounter unexpected\nproblems that are complex or which involve a multitude of other issues that\nbring about sorrow and anxiety; people need to get away from stress and need to\ngain a rational mind from evil influences, therefore visiting these places of\nworship transpires as a coping mechanism to deal with individual issues and\nenigmas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Participation\nin activities of religious places gradually promotes people to think the right\nway, tolerate others and their views, understand others\u2019 feelings, justice, and\nlove for others. However, recent experience in the world disclosed that certain\nreligious places do practice and promote hate against others, either\nmisunderstanding the religious philosophy or purposely adulterating the\nreligious philosophy to achieve selfish outcomes. It also seems that certain\nreligious places promote hate among individuals, or a group of individuals or a\ncommunity based on the purely misinterpreted religious philosophy to show that\nthey are right religious people close to God. When we examine a practical\nsituation of the universe, it shows or people to assume that God is neither\nhuman nor associated with a particular person or a group of people. A person or\na group of religious people are a bit of the universe and God who is above the\nuniverse will not prefer for a particular religion than others. The attitudes\nof some people are mere fabrications rather than the will of God. As we believe\nGod is justice and the maker of decisions based on justice, promoting violence\nin the name of God is not the will of God or approved activities by God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Current\nexperiences in many countries in connection with the operation of religious beacons\nthat the basic aim of religions that ordinary people expect has been gradually\ndisappearing or eroding because some religions in the world seem to promote\nviolence against the human being. Why this situation is encountering in\npresent? The most plausible explanation is that religions are at the hands of\nwrong people, who consider or wrongfully convince society that they are on the\nface of highly religious, but it is not. Not a single religious leader or the\noriginator of religion was expected to be happening violence in the name of\nreligion. In the modern era, religions have become a part of the political arm,\nor a business arm, or an operational component of the society which is\nperforming tasks against the fundamental objectives of religious philosophers.\nIt also seems that many ordinary people get away from religions as the\nfunctional areas of religions violate or contrary to the role of religions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS What\u2019s the prime aim of a religion? This question requires careful consideration because of the emergence of increased religious-based violence around the world, where such violence has resulted in unmitigated human tragedy that no religion is supposed to promote; can a religion promote violence amongst its believers or against the believers of […]<\/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-115738","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\/115738","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=115738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}