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Religion plays a powerful role in our everyday lives, but there are many things wrong with religion in our society. Religion has caused wars, religion is being used as an excuse, to discriminate against people with the opposite viewpoint, religion is filling people with fear, religion is turning people against themselves, religion is turning people against each other. Atheists and secular believe religion is the number one reason of violence and war throughout history. “(Arjuna from the Hindu faith , who learns it is his duty to fight as a member of the soldier caste.)” In the story Arjuna overcomes his doubts and fights, even though he knows it means killing some of his own family, but he never listen the Hindu …show more content…

Some Buddhist monks burned themselves to death in self sacrificing protest against the war.
In the Judaist faith the idea of Holy War occurs in the Hebrew Bible, however it was not about making others Jewish, but about survival. As we learn in history, Jews has been victim of persecution. The Palestinians and Jews has been fighting over the promised land of which is also known as Holy War.
Islamic teaching is often misunderstood in the West, particularly when it comes Jihad. There are four kinds of Jihad, personal spiritual and moral struggle in order to overcome self centeredness and follow the teachings of the Qur’an; calm preaching and, righteous behaviour that witness to the unbeliever about the way of Islam, and war against those who oppress or persecute believers, of course there are people in the Islamic faith who misunderstand the teaching of their prophet Mohammed. (peace be upon him)
Religion is filling people with fear. your sinful ways will lead you to Hell, LGBT is wrong and whosoever practice this act is going to Hell. In Angie Smith book Chasing God she wrote , and I quote this in her word …show more content…

Like, in my mind it was just sort of one or the other. I think when I was writing this book, and praying through it and studying Scripture, I found that that wasn't necessarily the case. Again, a lot of the things that I sort of beat myself up about, weren't things that God was beating me up about. I love studying people in Scripture who struggled with doubt and seeing how the Lord reacted to them. And it was always with such kindness, you know? And when he could tell that someone was really doubting, not because they wanted to be stubborn or resistant, because ultimately they really wanted to have true faith, he always honored that. That just meant a lot to me and it just shifted the way I saw the relationship.)” (Smith,

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