From the “Air Egypt” suicide crash to 9-11, the media has failed to report the root cause of violence - which is RELIGION.

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“From the “Air Egypt” suicide crash to 9-11, the media has failed to report the root cause of violence - which is RELIGION”

The root cause of violence is not religion. Religious beliefs can and often are a symptom of ignorance. The root cause of violence is ignorance or unawareness. Many religious beliefs are based in ignorance not reality. But then if we were perfect and without unawareness there would be no unique us. Our level or degree of unawareness make us unique beings. Some more unique than others.

If there were no unawareness there would be no variation of expressions of life forms. There would be no relative phenomenal world. Even the Christians reject these statements.

Now a deeper question is what is the origin or root cause of that ignorance. Few in the world believe that is even a valid question. Most never think to even ask that question. The answer reveals much about consciousness its relationship to awareness.

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The media regularly eschews the religious basis for patently religious violence.  Even 9/11 is remembered as a terrorist act, failing to mention that it was part of web of ongoing religious violence - violence that is widely celebrated in other religious parts of the globe.

Violent Christianity continues to erupt around the globe, but we rarely hear about it.  In this country, the Baptist Rev. Anderson’s ongoing preaching that killing gay people is not murder was a blip on the screen, and the Christians go on, deluded that they are loving the world and one another.

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“What is the origin or root cause of that ignorance?”

Religion is the root cause and origin of a vast amount of willful ignorance not merely a symptom. Somehow I don’t think that if we were all supremely intelligent that would cause us to all be alike. Do you think before you type or do you just start blabbing. Please join us on the forums if you would like to further justify some of your beliefs and here others’ criticism.

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Religion may not be the root cause of violence but it is certainly a catalyst for it.

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“reseacher wrote: The root cause of violence is not religion.”

There are exceptions, but religion is the most common cause.

I suggest you read Hector Avalos’ book “Fighting Words: The Origins of Religious Violence.”

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I think it is more that the root cause of violence AND ignorance is oppression.  It just happens that religion is often an oppresive force in order to retain its adherents.

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Asking about the root cause of ignorance (why people lack knowledge) is like asking why people lack the ability to fly. Knowledge is what needs an explanation. Ignorance is the natural state of most primates.

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Wow,  this is really tragic…

He’s raised by well-meaning but incredibly misguided parents, and becomes so psychologically fucked up that he turns to violence and depravity to strike back.  Even worse, when he finally snaps, he ends up killing innocent people…

It pisses me off to no end that the media never identified his parents’ strict Christianity as the root cause and blamed it entirely on the porn and “rock and roll.”

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How well-meaning can religious parenting be?  Isn’t it simply mind manipulation by parents for the sake of parents?  In what sense is it well-meaning to mutilate the foreskin of an infant male?  What is the value of raising a child to believe s/he is sinner with a guilty stake in an ancient fratricide?  It’s not clear to me how any of this can be hidden behind the euphemism of “well-meaning” in modern socieities.

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I have always felt dogma is to blame.  It certainly has a close tie to ignorance, but the essence of dogma is a tad different.

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