Why do we feel we can justify our behavior in religion?

Question

Persons justify bad behavior towards other humans in religious context. We are destroying our planet and degrading other humans in our quest for money and power. This is not just for americans but the whole world needs to reevaluate what they believe to be important.

Answer 1

umm... you are the one who needs to evaluate what they believe in. GOD IS POWER!!! GOD IS YOUR LIFE!!!

thats why people justify religon.

Answer 2

It's wrong whether you believe in God or not.

They need to stop

Answer 3

Interesting.  Many people believe that Religion and Civilization are incompatible.

Its possible.  The crusades (Muslim vs Christian) seem to be still with us.  

What is the Pope's stance on Global Warming and destroying the earth? (I don't know, but imagine that he does not have a stance.)

Note too that when Rome fell and civilization as we think of it fell with it that the Roman Catholic Church was pretty much unaffected.

Answer 4

Religion acts as a huge inoculation for people who's actions would otherwise be viewed as evil.

When you say God, Allah, etc wants me to do this the moral and ethics questions of the acts gets diluted.

How else would you get someone to blow themselves up for your cause?

Answer 5

I'm an atheist, so I take a pragmatic & rational approach to every situation & can live easily with Christians, Jews, Buddahists & even Hindu... but Muslims that advocate Shria Law need to be sent to a country where they may practice it.  

Sadia Arabia is the driving force behind Islamic extremism & their money goes to fund the ongoing Jihad.  Iran (Shia') is not nearly the threat that the Wahabbie (Sunni) in Saudi are.

Pakistan is slowly being radicalized & Mushariff is likely to lose control to radicals in the near future.

Unless you Christians & Jews wake up soon, we have one h**l of a fiight coming.

Answer 6

Religion does not talk about the good only. It talks about the bad. Real events of a crime. Real events of power struggle. Real events of greed. All these are recorded in the holy books so that we learn from these and not repeat them again. However with our sinful nature, things will repeat themselves again and again and again. When WW I was over, people said there will not be another WW. Then WW II came. People swear that this is the last time. No more. Some people think that the Iraq war might lead to WW III. When the twin tower in NY were brought down, I have a small picture in my mind about the dropping of the A bomb in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Religion says if somebody hit you on one cheek, offer your other cheek to be hit. I doubt if anyone of us is humble enough to be humiliated as such.

Answer 7

A lot of the time it is all caused ones religion scriptures. For example if you think of the word Heathen, w***e, or Pagan. People conjure up bad images of something that they view negatively. Over the many years that certain religions have been around there writing have been tampered with. In my humble opinion the bible is like a telephone game, you pass it along until it gets mixed around in the middle and eventually you get your final answer. We don't know the people that wrote these books, and yet because a child was raised to believe in a religion there told (well some of them) that any other religion is wrong there in making them a "Pagan, w***e, Heathen", they feel no remorse when these people are attacked for just believing in something that they feel a strong connection to. There in leading to my second answer, people know that other people would do anything for there religion for whatever the reason is. Bad people in the world take advantage of this and steal from the religions followers.

I believe as long as your have your basic morals down and do what you know what is right you can't go wrong.

Answer 8

My religion is very personal to me.  Most people that I know do not know what religion I am.  I think that is appropriate.  My religion--morals and personal ethics--determines my relationship to God and other people.  I don't use it to justify bad behavior.  Nor do I attempt to force it onto others.  Hence, few people know what religion I am.

Answer 9

Every religion preech non violence. In the Koran for muslim, the kali for Indian and the Bible for catholic their are extract that tell human to consider others as a brother or a sister. So bad actions cannot be justified in any way and specially not by using religion.

Answer 10

The religious people I know don't try to justify bad behavior. Maybe you could be more specific about what you mean.

Answer 11

Morality must be returned to the schools because people will only be good if from childhood, goodness is already inductrinated just in the past.

Answer 12

Religion is life's rose. It can be beautiful; however there are thorns.

People can use religion to better themselveS and humanity and people can use it for power, money. . s*x. . . etc.

Peope make decisions in this world and unfortunately people choose to be selfish.

Chane the world one person at a time and start with the man in the mirror right?