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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]According to the article at http://www.alternet.org/belief/humanity-becoming-increasingly-less-violent-one-exception-religious-violence [quote]Studies demonstrate the world is becoming less violent, and that human warfare is on the decline. There is one aspect of the human existence, however, that continues to ignite humans to commit violence and atrocities against fellow humans. A major new study published by the Pew Research Center shows that religious hostilities reached a 6-year high in 2012. [/quote] [quote]According to the Pew Research Center, a third (33%) of the 198 countries and territories included in the study had high religious hostilities in 2012, up from 29% in 2011 and 20% as of mid-2007. Notably, religious hostilities increased in every major region of the world except the Americas, with the most dramatic increases felt in areas still reeling from the effects of the 2010-11 political uprisings known as the Arab Spring. [/quote] [quote]The study finds rises in religious motivated threats of violence, harassment of women over religious dress, mob violence related to religion, sectarian violence, and religion-related terrorist violence. One in five countries experience religious motivated terrorism in 2013, which is up from one in ten countries in 2007. [/quote] [quote]While most of the above examples have basis in disputes over land and political control, [b]it’s religious belief that shapes the terms and the willingness of one party to negotiate with the other.[/b] War, by definition, suggests an all-or nothing conflict to determine a dispute against an enemy one believes in hell-bent on our destruction, and therefore cannot be placated via diplomatic means. [b]In other words, war and violence becomes an excuse for not finding compromise. Religion provides the excuse to be violent.[/b] (emphasis mine) [/quote] [quote]"It is somewhat trite, but nevertheless sadly true, to say that more wars have been waged, more people killed, and these days more evil perpetrated in the name of religion than by any other institutional force in human history.” It’s easy for American Christendom to dismiss this and studies that show increases in religious violence, for it’s something that can be waved away as something that happens over “there” in those “crazy countries.” But lest we forget that it is right wing American Christians that have helped shape Uganda’s anti-gay laws, which carry life imprisonment for homosexual acts and the death penalty for repeat offenders. [/quote] [/quote] I clicked your posted link to read the article, and it’s not there? Was it removed, or is it the wrong link?[/quote]
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