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- Title
RELIGION AND VIOLENCE OR THE RELUCTANCE TO STUDY THIS RELATIONSHIP.
- Authors
CLITEUR, PAUL B.
- Abstract
This article is about the religious roots of violence, in particular religious terrorism. The author argues that there is a great reluctance to study this relationship. This is unfortunate because only on the basis of a realistic estimate of the facts can a successful counterterrorist strategy be developed. One of the problems with religious violence is that holy scriptures, in some passages, exhort believers to violent acts. In combination with a theory of ethics that is known as "divine command morality" this is problematic. Even if the holy book contains only a small percentage of passages invoking violence they pose a problem if the whole book is considered to be holy and the word of God.
- Subjects
VIOLENCE; RELIGION; RACISM &; religion; COUNTERTERRORISM; ETHICS; WORD of God
- Publication
Forum Philosophicum, 2010, Vol 15, Issue 1, p205
- ISSN
1426-1898
- Publication type
Article