Does religion preach violence?

Preaches religion violence?

If we observe with a fine-tooh comb the events that have been occuring during history, there were some occasions in which humanity has been involved in national or international wars.

Image of a celebrated religious conflict: Crusades.

As follows, one of the main causes of death and tautness between countries has been religion, church and their tenet.

Firstly, this reflection can recreate controversy due to the values taught by the Catholic Church or other religious ideologies.

Religion often preaches peace and forgiveness for every person in the Earth, even if they do not think the same way.

However, during the 16th and 17th century, secularism reached a new peak in the Western World to react against the acts of violence caused by religion.

This is mainly caused because of the government. In the past, despite the ideology concerned, the king or president had to take into account the Church to make their mind up politically, socially, economically... 
Even, there were times when the emperor had a strong religious beleif, and consequently, they made their country have it as well.

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Additionally, if we think over this point, we can see concrete spots where thanks to a (re)conquest, inhabitants from a muslim region were forced to pay additional taxes to continue practising their ideas or they would even be exiled.

Jewish people are a clear example. Since antique history to contemporary, they have been criticised for their core belief and they have been involved in multiples banishments in different countries. Even killed during the Nazi regime!

If we clasify religion as an irrational thought, we can "explain" the peridiocal murders or terrorism.

Christians before the arrival of Jesus Christ and its peaceful ideologies, violence against heretic was not prohibited, with the only objective of reinforcing the power of the religion.

In the islam doctrine, God is represented with the Quran, which means every word written in that book is the word of Allah. As a result, every muslim reads the Quran and acts with the perception he got of it.

The problem is the Quran and arabics have not experienced an evolution in terms of religion basis, so generally-speaking they are continuing to punish "infidels".

In conclusion, we can see that due to the aspects of religion, that is its irrational nature, we can hardly explain logically why christianism is better than islam or judaism, so conflicts eventually explode, so in the past and even nowadays still take place wars of religious beliefs.

Think about that. In this age popular religions are monotheistic, and so their ideas are very similar. Their ethics have lots of aspects in common and so it is possible to dialogue between nations to reach a conclusion, meaning we are not so different after all.