http://www.alternet.org/belief/humanity-becoming-increasingly-less-violent-one-exception-religious-violence
note America has no shaded area, wonder why that is, don't we have religious unrest that has resulted in deaths and violent conflicts within?
Studies demonstrate the world is becoming less violent, and that human warfare is on the decline. There is one aspect of the human existence, however, that continues to ignite humans to commit violence and atrocities against fellow humans. A major new study published by the Pew Research Center shows that religious hostilities reached a 6-year high in 2012.Dr. Steven Pinker, Pulitzer prize-winning author and Harvard psychology professor, writes, “Today we may be living in the most peaceful era in our species’ existence.” He acknowledges: “In a century that began with 9/11, Iraq, and Darfur, the claim that we are living in an unusually peaceful time may strike you as somewhere between hallucinatory and obscene.”Pinker points out, wars make headlines, but there are fewer conflicts today, and wars don’t kill as many people as they did in the Middle Ages, for instance. Also, global rates of violent crime have plummeted in the last few decades.Pinker notes that the reason for these advances are complex but certainly the rise of education, and a growing willingness to put ourselves in the shoes of others has played its part.
that falls short of the reality of republican ideology it does not seem to be the mindset of saber rattling republicans they fight constantly first against the American people and secondly with the world. ever ready feed the MIC got to have one more ship, plane, bomb, this month now next month they have their eyes on another one more.
i think the original thought behind nuclear weapons is what drives more thoughts of peace also war double edge sword. no one wants to be under the thumb of another because they have a bigger gun, so the scramble for military equality or superiority is on.
those who have them like America try to stymie efforts by others to get one too, it's a nuke or be nuked mentality, those countries are not loved like the right wing likes to propose but feared big difference, loved gets you loyalty big guns gets you middle east attitude toward us.
Religiosity, however, continues to play its part in promoting in-group out-group thinking, which casts the difference between people in terms of eternal rewards and punishments. Sam Harris, author of Letter to a Christian Nation, observes, “Faith inspires violence in two ways.First, people often kill other human beings because they believe the creator of the universe wants them to do it…Second, far greater numbers of people fall into conflict with one another because they define their moral community on the basis of their religious affiliation: Muslims side with Muslims, Protestants with Protestants, Catholics with Catholics.”
do peoples of different religions really believe that or is it a passed down fallacy i don't believe it as a broad brush yes there are those who have that opinion but i truly think they are a global minority what keeps it alive are those who would be leaders in a quest for superiority over others the Bible is full of conflicts of different religions but wasn't that suppose to be the learning time?
after all this time and history of destruction shouldn't we have learned war religious or otherwise is not a global ideal those who lead make those decisions and send those they lord over to their deaths over something that would not be if there weren't this "i'm bigger, badder and my religion is bigger and badder then yours"? suffice it to say there is not a worldwide consensus of people who would chose war or peace and mutual respect.
