Religion and Violence

Is Religion The Cause Of Most Wars?

Rabbi Alan Lurie | Posted 04.10.2012

Rabbi Alan Lurie

History simply does not support the hypothesis that religion is the major cause of conflict. The wars of the ancient world were rarely, if ever, based on religion.

Religion Does Not Color Views About Violence

Ahmed Younis | Posted 03.19.2012

Ahmed Younis

OIC countries slightly less likely to see military attacks on civilians as sometimes justified.

Does The Hutaree Militia Represent Christianity? A Muslim Knows Better

Yasmin Mogahed | Posted 05.25.2011

Yasmin Mogahed

If there's news of a Muslim terrorist, Islam becomes complicit in the crime. Yet few people are going to accuse Christianity of motivating the terrorism of the Hutaree militia.

Hutaree Militia: The Passion Of The Christians

Mark Olmsted | Posted 05.25.2011

Mark Olmsted

Do horrors like the Hutaree militia represent the inevitable consequence of a religion whose central symbol -- the cross -- represents one of the most unpleasant and cruel tortures that can be inflicted?

Respect an Individual's Decision

Shashi Tharoor | Posted 11.17.2011

Shashi Tharoor

Let each religion do its thing, and let each Indian be free to choose. Conversion should be an issue of individual conscience and not mass delusion.