Can religions be used to advance an agenda? The answer lies within the Genesis, the beginning of religion. Religions were primarily used to unify people, and create moral and ethical boundaries within society. Religion has been used from time to time as a tool for people to use to advance a negative agenda. So to answer the question in just one sentence: yes, religions can be, and are of late being used to advance bad and negative agendas in modern-day society, such that include corruption, conquest, as well as terrorism. Religion can be used to advance an agenda of terrorism, an idea that contradicts one of the primary agendas of most religions: peace and unity. The Muslims militarily conquered about 4,000 miles of land. Concurrently, the Quran states that in …show more content…
God has power to grant them victory.” (22:39). While many Muslims at the time attacked a vast majority of land to widen their empire, it completely contradicted the primary idea of the Jihad shown within the Quran. In turn, it would mean that religion is being used to advance an agenda, that being one of terrorism. Meanwhile, according to the Independent News of the UK, ISIS has used the excuse of creating a unified Caliphate by uniting Shia and Sunni citizens using brute force. Meanwhile, the Quran states that “(W)hoever killed a human being, except as punishment for murder or other villainy...shall be deemed as having killed all mankind; and...whoever saved a human life shall be deemed as having saved all mankind.” (5:32). By doing so and exploiting using brute force, based on the Quran, they are indeed deemed as having killed all mankind; therefore, ISIS completely opposes it and its messages in order to advance a more or less political agenda, while deeming themselves as religious fighters. Based on Wikipedia.org, there were recently several Anti-Christian attacks done by the BJP Party, which resulted in more Hindu votes for the BJP. Meanwhile, the Bhagavad