Religion has no place in politics due to the inherent lack of tolerance but it is not exclusively responsible.
There is a lack of quality leadership without bigotry, ignorance, and exclusion of others.
While certainly some religions are completely passive, benign, and innocent there is lot of hypocrisy.
Quote from : Wikipedia : Ideology : Political Ideology
Many political parties base their political action and program on an ideology.
In social studies, a Political Ideology is a certain ethical set of ideals, principles, doctrines, myths or symbols of a social movement, institution, class, or large group that explains how society should work, and offers some political and cultural blueprint for a certain social order.
A political ideology largely concerns itself with how to allocate power and to what ends it should be used.
Some parties follow a certain ideology very closely, while others may take broad inspiration from a group of related ideologies without specifically embracing any one of them.
Political ideologies have two dimensions:
1. Goals: how society should work (or be arranged).
2. Methods: the most appropriate ways to achieve the ideal arrangement.
The problem is that complete, blind, and ignorance through following without questioning leads to abuses.
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What is Sharia Law of Islam and the Mulsim?
When it comes to political ideology and the "left-wing" verses "right-wing" no other organization has more hypocrisy than religion, through leadership, to practices, to dogmatic beliefs that one group is better than another.
It is not just West verses East, nor is it one ideology over another, it is the wars they provoke.
It just seems that if people believe they are doing the right thing they have the opinion they are the only ones right, and all others are wrong, false, or evil, it really does not matter if we're discussing Christianity, Islam, or Buddhism, or any other religious group, just like all organizations they have the ability, desire, and or motivation which leads to extremism.
Usually though it is one person, or one belief system, or even an entire country which leads people astray.
Quote from : Wikipedia : Sun Myung Moon
Sun Myung Moon (born February 25, 1920) is the Korean founder and leader of the worldwide Unification Church. He is also the founder of many other organizations and projects.
One of the best-known of these is News World Communications, an international media conglomerate which publishes The Washington Times and other newspapers.
He is famous for holding blessing ceremonies, often referred to as "mass weddings".
Moon has said, and it is generally believed by Unification Church members, that he is the Messiah and the Second Coming of Christ and is fulfilling Jesus' unfinished mission.
He has been among the most controversial modern religious leaders, both for his religious beliefs and for his social and political activism.
And it leads to cult practices.
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The problem inherently comes not from the religion itself necessarily, but from someone with an insane plane, an idiotic dream, or a complete lack of morals, ethics, and or a sense of right and wrong, without them being completely warped.
And they find their way to the top of the heaps and lead the innocent followers like lambs before a slaughter.
These people are wolves in sheep's clothing, shepherds who devour their flock, leading those people into a trap.
Quote from : Wikipedia : Jim Jones
James Warren "Jim" Jones (May 13, 1931 – November 18, 1978) was the founder and leader of the Peoples Temple, which is best known for the November 18, 1978 death of more than 900 Temple members in Jonestown, Guyana along with the deaths of five other people at a nearby airstrip and in Georgetown, Guyana.
Jones was born in Indiana and started the Temple in that state in the 1950s. Jones and the Temple later moved to California, and both gained notoriety with the move of the Temple's headquarters to San Francisco in the mid-1970s.
The greatest single loss of American civilian life in a non-natural disaster until the events of September 11, 2001, the tragedy at Guyana also ranks among the largest mass murders/mass suicides in history.
One of those who died at the nearby airstrip was Leo Ryan, who became the only Congressman murdered in the line of duty in the history of the United States.
Or leads to insanity through self-destruction.
Pt. 1 - Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple
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It is these wolves, these predators, who find innocent sheep, recruiting them, or find other like-minded people and turn them into insane followers through murderous practices, making our hearts go out to the victims and families.
None other is in my estimation worse one who would teach chaos, disorder, and racist tendencies laced with insanity.
And he drove his people to practice something that only few understood, followed, and or believed called Kelter Skelter.
Quote from : Wikipedia Charles Manson
Charles Milles Manson (born November 12, 1934) is an American criminal who led what became known as the Manson Family, a quasi-commune that arose in California in the late 1960s.
He was found guilty of conspiracy to commit the Tate/LaBianca murders, carried out by members of the group at his instruction.
He was convicted of the murders through the joint-responsibility rule, which makes each member of a conspiracy guilty of crimes his fellow conspirators commit in furtherance of the conspiracy's object.
Manson is associated with "Helter Skelter", a term he took from the song Helter Skelter, written and recorded by the Beatles.
Manson misconstrued the lyrics of the song to be about an apocalyptic race war he believed the murders were intended to precipitate.
From the beginning of his notoriety, this connection with rock music linked him with a pop culture in which he ultimately became an emblem of insanity, violence, and the macabre.
The term was later used by Manson prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi as the title of the book he wrote about the Manson murders.
At the time the Family began to form, Manson was an unemployed ex-convict who had spent half of his life in correctional institutions for a variety of offenses.
In the period of time before the murders, he was a singer-songwriter on the fringe of the Los Angeles music industry, chiefly through a chance association with Dennis Wilson, a member of The Beach Boys.
After Manson was charged with the crimes he was later convicted of, recordings of songs written and performed by him were released commercially.
Artists including Guns N' Roses and Marilyn Manson have covered his songs in the decades since.
Manson's death sentence was automatically commuted to life imprisonment when a 1972 decision by the Supreme Court of California temporarily eliminated the state's death penalty.
California's eventual reestablishment of capital punishment did not affect Manson, who is an inmate currently housed at Corcoran State Prison.
And people committed atrocities in his name, remain devoted through ignorance, and or die on his behalf.
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It is because of people's inherent fear, lack of ability to lead themselves, and looking to others for guidance.
The Science of Fear: Why We Fear the Things We Shouldn't--and Put Ourselves in Greater Danger
Publishers Weekly : Amazon Review :
Gardner, a columnist and senior writer for the Ottawa Citizen, is both matter-of-fact and entertaining in this look at fear and how it shapes our lives.
Although we are capable of reason, says Gardner, we often rely instead on intuitive snap judgments.
We also assume instinctively, but incorrectly, that if examples of something can be recalled easily, that thing must be common.
And what is more memorable than headlines and news programs blaring horrible crimes and diseases, plane crashes and terrorist attacks?
In fact, such events are rare, but their media omnipresence activates a gut-level fear response that is out of proportion to the likelihood of our going through such an event.
It doesn't help that scientific data and statistics are often misunderstood and misused and that our risk assessment is influenced less by the facts than by how others respond.
Gardner's vivid, direct style, backed up by clear examples and solid data from science and psychology, brings a breath of fresh air and common sense to an emotional topic.
(June)
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Excellent thread, whatukno, come on by and share your thoughts on my thread.
Sheepdogs vs. Wolves : Law Enforcement, Predators and Prey, and Love or Hate Cops...
This will make an excellent start off for my thread leading towards the discussion of wolves walking on two legs.
edit on 9/18/10 by SpartanKingLeonidas because: Adding Depth To The Post.
