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Group Members: Milly, Dada, Noey, Gam, New, and Jeen Class #: 1206
Peace Violence
Argument 1 - Religions such as christianity and buddhism does - People kill others in the name of God
not allow you to kill anyone. If you do kill
List arguments in bullet-point format. someone, you are going against the religion.
You may use phrases; complete - Within religions, these three evil roots bring
sentences are not required. about great unrest in the mind, resulting in
physical outbursts of violence culminating in
global warfare. For example, Buddhism teach
people to have morals and ethics in mind that
are essential factors for the reduction and
ultimate eradication of greed, hatred, and
delusion—which form the root cause of
various conflicts and wars, both within and
without.
Sources http://www.drbachinese.org/vbs/101_132/vbs120/120_10.
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and authors/organizations.
Argument 2 - These troubles, wars and crimes were not ● The strongest proponents of world peace
originated from religion. Instead, they are are secular developed nations rather than
List arguments in bullet-point format. human-based. To expand, all these WW1, WW2, religious countries and they donate more
various civil wars, American War and so on… are money to poor countries
You may use phrases; complete not religious-based war but actually from people ● According to, Mr.Inbar Aran
sentences are not required. greediness from wealth and powers. As so, a ● First, you would need to check what would
point can be made that these war are caused by happen if there was no religion at all.
people who take excessive pride in themselves, ○ Measure peace & violence in both
hence you often see them disrespect their cases, subtract, and compare.
religion and performing such crime and harsh Simple, huh?
murdered. ○ Even measuring the peace and
violence in this reality is close to
- According to collegiatetimes, Allah states impossible. How do you even
in the Quran that He rewards good measure ‘peace’? Squared meters?
behaviors, among the most frequently You might be able to roughly
estimate, though.
mentioned of these are speaking the
○ And then comes the problem of
truth, being kind to family, honoring checking the possibility of a reality
parents, giving charity, feeding the poor, that never happened.
freeing slaves and studying. Allah also ● Some of the violence might be there
states in the Quran that He punishes bad anyway, and some might be created only in
behaviors; among these are the worship the absence of religion
of idols, stealing from orphans,
disobeying one’s parents, cheating on
one’s spouse, giving false testimony,
committing murder or suicide, or
enslaving a free person.
Sources https://www.usip.org/publications/2006/01/religious-contr
List websites, articles, videos, quotes, ibutions-peacemaking-when-religion-brings-peace-not-war
and authors/organizations.
Peace -
● According to the ‘encyclopedia of war’ published in 2008, Religious cause less than 7% of all wars recorded in the
history. (4% of which from Islam)
● Religious teach people morals and self improvement
● North Korea, which has one of the lowest rates of people practising religion, was one of
ten 'least peaceful' countries in world last year, according to the report.
● It is not religion that perpetuates violence, but people.
● Christian Exodus 20:13 states that “You shall not murder”
● Without religion, human are no different from animals
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/11/14/religions-war-cause-responsible-evidence_n_6156878.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/01/opinion/how-religion-can-lead-to-violence.html
Violence - Religion causes war
● If there was just one religion it might be more peaceful >>> Conflict between religious eg. Hitler massacre,
Israeli-Palestinian conflict
● People who are deeply religious can get irritated easily when their religion is insulted.
● Some religions even promote violence against people who do not believe in that same religion. Eg. Islam???????
● Countries have been divided by war over their difference in religious beliefs. Eg. Bosnia(Muslim) divided from
Yugoslavia & Ireland(Protestant) from England(Catholic).
● One of the most infamous quotes associated with religious fanaticism was uttered in 1209 during the siege of
Béziers, a Crusader asked the Papal Legate Arnaud Amalric how to tell Catholics from Cathars when the city was
taken, to which Amalric replied: “Kill them all; God will recognize his."
● Protestant vs Catholic - a long war
● The crusades are not a good example of people causing wars because of religion. This is because
it was not the Muslims taking Jerusalem that caused the English to attack, it was a terrorist group
that took it under the name of Muslim that caused them to attack when in fact the Qur'an states
that you should let other religions believe what they want and that they will soon understand that
Allah is the only god.
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● French civil war of religious
Debate Format
Main Arguments - Peace 4 minutes
Main Arguments - Violence 4 minutes