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Why do some religious practices seem to promote violence despite their messages of peace and spiritual growth?
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It is not the religions as much as it is the violent people who distort their religion. Most people in most religions are actually peaceful people. Even Muslims are peaceful, it is just the extremists who are violent.
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The world is full of false religion and the Bible says "The road to destruction is broad and many are those on it". However, it also says, "The road to life is narrow and few are the ones finding it." The Bible also says that those who practice true religion will learn war no more so that is one of the things that can be used to identify the true religion.
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We were warned that if we refuse to obey Yahweh's Laws we would bring ourselves to total destruction.. . Deuteronomy 28:15-19, 22-24—. 15 However, if you do not obey Yahweh your Father, and do not carefully follow all His Laws and His statutes, which I command you this day, then all these curses will come upon you, and accompany you:. 23 And the heaven that is over your heads shall be brass, and the earth under you shall be iron.. 24 It will come to pass that you will cause the rain of your land to become powder and dust: from heaven it shall come down upon you, until you are destroyed. . . Within the meanings of the words: brass, iron, powder,. and dust, we can see that Mosheh described perfectly the. radioactive fallout from a nuclear explosion, which we. read of earlier. Reading the definitions from the Strong’s. Exhaustive Concordance Hebrew Dictionary, we find this. i.nformation. BRASS—5178. nechosheth, nekh-o-sheth; for 5154;. copper;. 5154. nechuwshah, nekh-oo-shaw; or. nechushah, nekh-oo-shaw′; fem. of 5153;. copper:—brass, steel.. 5153. nachuwah, naw-khoosh; appar.. pass. part of 5172 (perh. in the sense of. ringing, i.e. bell-metal; or from the red color. of the throat of a serpent [5175, as denom.]. when hissing); coppery, i.e. (fig.) hard:—of. brass.. The root meaning of the word brass is the red color of. the throat of a serpent. The heaven that is over your. heads shall be red in color during this blast. .IRON—. 1270. barzel, bar-zel; perh. from the root of. 1269; iron (as cutting) by extens. an iron. implement:—(ax) head, iron.. 1269. Birzowth, beer-zoth; prob. fem. plur.. from an unused root (appar. mean. to pierce);. holes;. The word iron means to pierce—holes. When the heaven. that is over your heads is the color red, the blast will. pierce holes in the earth. .POWDER—. 80. abaq, aw-bawk; from root of 79; light. particles (as volatile):—(small) dust,. powder. .DUST—. 6083. aphar, aw-fawr; from 6080; dust (as. powdered or gray) hence clay, Earth, mud:—. ashes, dust, Earth, ground, mortar, powder,. rubbish.. 6080. aphar, aw-far; a prim. root; mean.. either to be gray or perh. rather to. pulverize; used only as denom. from 6083; to. be dust:—cast [dust].. When a nuclear blast hits the land, piercing holes in. the Earth, the detonation will pulverize the soil, turning. it into volatile particles (as shown in the meaning of the. word powder), gray in color. This powder and dust is the. radioactive fallout from a nuclear blast which will come. down from heaven upon you, until you are destroyed.. . Mankind has chosen this way, and the religions are behind it.
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People because of thier own blindness and desires, missuse or missinterpert various scriptures. And remember what christ said Love god with all your heart all your mind and all your soul, and Love your nieghbor as yourself. If you do not want to get hit do not hit back. If you do not want to be arrested arrest noone. Forgive>>>>>>>
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because, like with christianity, you can justify murdering people in gods name. proclaim peace and murder in his name, either way they think they are still going to heaven.
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its the ppl that can turn hateful
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Man is violent. Not religion. Man will use any excuse he can to hurt his fellow man. Racism. Sexism. Dietism. Nationalism.
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I have no idea really. a good question.
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because they cant except the fact that some people are different and dont bellive the same way
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False Advertising.
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