{"id":2406,"date":"2010-09-20T06:57:46","date_gmt":"2010-09-20T01:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bhagwad.com\/blog\/?p=2406"},"modified":"2010-09-20T06:57:46","modified_gmt":"2010-09-20T01:27:46","slug":"is-islam-really-the-most-violent-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bhagwad.com\/blog\/2010\/politics\/is-islam-really-the-most-violent-religion.html\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Islam really the most violent religion?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One thing all Islamophobes agree upon is that Islam is more violent than any other religion. They bolster this claim by pointing out various passages in the quran that uphold violence. Now I&#8217;m not saying that these passages don&#8217;t exist. Nor am I saying that those passages are good. But how come we end up ignoring all the violent passages in other religions?<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3024\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3024\" style=\"width: 290px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3024\" title=\"Most wars are caused by religion\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bhagwad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Most-wars-have-been-because-of-religion.jpg\" alt=\"Most wars are caused by religion\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bhagwad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Most-wars-have-been-because-of-religion.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bhagwad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Most-wars-have-been-because-of-religion-150x105.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3024\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Most wars are caused by religion<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Don&#8217;t get me wrong. I don&#8217;t support <em>any kind<\/em> of violence &#8211; whether it&#8217;s preached in the quran or the bible. But I like to level my criticisms consistently. Though I&#8217;m an atheist, I was born a christian. So I have a pretty good understanding of what&#8217;s written in the bible and I can tell you, it ain&#8217;t pretty.<\/p>\n<p>The bible is easily one of the most violent religious books in existence. Blow for blow it outshines even Islam in sheer brutality and in the advocation of race based mass genocide.<\/p>\n<p>Now many will say that the bible also contains the teachings of Jesus which are peaceful. Many christians will say that the peaceful teachings of the bible overwrite the violent ones. This is blatantly false as Jesus himself clearly says that the Old Testament (where all the violence is) is still valid and everything in it must be followed. To quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets. I have come not to abolish but to fulfill. Amen, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest part or the smallest part of a letter will pass from the law, until all things have taken place.\u201d (Matthew 5:17)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, we can&#8217;t look for consistency in religious books. There are enough conflicting passages in all religious texts to provide fodder that can fuel any ideology. You want to prove that the bible is violent? No problem! After all, few can dispute that the god of the bible is a psycopath who delights in murdering and torturing people <em>en masse<\/em>. You want to prove that Islam is peaceful? Hey, that&#8217;s true too! Just handpick your relevant sections and you can provide any front to those who don&#8217;t know better.<\/p>\n<p>Given all this, it&#8217;s hypocritical to say that Islam is the most violent religion. The problem is not <em>Islam\u00a0per se<\/em> since Islam relies solely on the quran which is as good\/bad as the bible. So we must then also\u00a0call <em>christianity<\/em> the most violent religion!<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s high time people realized that the reason for violence is the <em>people<\/em> who <em>choose<\/em> to become violent. You can&#8217;t absolve them of responsibility saying that they were driven to violence because of an ideology. Cause there are enough peaceful passages even in the quran for them to pick up on if they want. Just like there&#8217;s no shortage of violence in the bible. Ultimately, one who wants to find an excuse to fight and is receptive to being brainwashed can find ample justification to do so no matter what their religion is.<\/p>\n<p>So stop treating Islam as a pariah. I&#8217;m not fond of Islam myself since I&#8217;m not fond of <em>any<\/em> religion. But I get nauseous when I see the &#8220;holier than thou&#8221; attitude from people who say that <em>their<\/em> religion is all so pure and virtuous and that <em>their<\/em> religion doesn&#8217;t endorse violence of any kind &#8211; all the while turning a blind eye to passages in their holy books that approve of wholesale slaughter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are other religions more violent than Islam. 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