Paulo Miguel L.

Punla

SEMSOAN A52

HW # 8

This reading made by Karen Armstrong expounded on how violence is very

adamant in the contexts of religion, many religions have been using it beliefs and
it’s ideologies to campaign for war and to initiate conflict towards other religious
organizations or just basically by race for not having or sharing the same belief, it
is considered a threat if you have different perspectives and are willing to risk
ones life for it. In one of the lessons discussed in class is collateral damage, the
casualties caused by the violence across different places in different periods of
time has been insanely violent, such as the war in Iraq which has proven that
God is definitely not dead as mentioned in the reading whether he is or not.
However, it is making people die. Just like what Samuel Huntington saw, “clash of
civilizations” where in the democracy has perished in the light of muslims since
they were seen as terror attackers by the whole world. So the questions that
always go through my head as we speak of religion and world peace, is it ever
going to end? Is religion making the world a better place? Why are we fighting
over beliefs? – There’s so many questions that need answers and we can only
formulate or make up conspiracies that would satisfy our belief of what is
happening and what could happen.