The Guardian view on religion and violence: context is everything | Editorial - News Summed Up

The Guardian view on religion and violence: context is everything | Editorial


It is indeed a site dedicated to the proposition that Islam is a uniquely violent and hateful religion. But behind the name there lurks a serious question, which goes to the heart of integration: how seriously should we take the warlike scriptures of any religion? Any world religion will contain sacred texts that have seemed to urge its followers on to murder. Christianity, quite as much as Islam, can call on texts that seem to make the slaughter of unbelievers mandatory. By presenting their objects only in a context of danger and violence, they form associations that are very hard to eradicate.


Source: The Guardian March 26, 2017 18:33 UTC



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