Opinion Piece: So much love is taught in religion so why is there so much hate?
So I fully expect people to bash me on this one but I have to ask anyway.
So much love is taught in religion so why is there so much hate?
I get that in the early part of the bible and other religious text there is a fair amount of what I like to call "nah fuck them" rules and stories. Where no matter what EVERYONE not following the rules is pretty much setup to be hated and killed (with gods blessing of course). I also get that shit back then we were not as evolved and religion and myths were really what kept us in line.
The thing is we changed, the stories in some cases stayed the same and in other the books were re-written to at least some what fit the times. Stories were taken out others were added. As kingdoms adopted religion as a way to hold power and those religions needed to hold favor shit got changed.
So how is it 2017 and 1 fucking scripture is CONSTANTLY being used to show intolerance, promote hate, and sell merchandise like this was 1652. Today I watched a live chat with a hateful man who literally contradicted himself time and again. Promoted his merch all in the name of god but make sure to download his app and buy his shirt for 19.99. But then began to read scripture about gods love and how he is so forgiving.
I think its just time people accepted the book has just been propaganda for a few centuries, with pretty much every major religion committing what ever sin they wanted and only teaching love for themselves. We are even seeing this age old bout that is pretty much the 100 years part 3 going on, over the hatred that is in a book instead of the love that is in that book. The possibility to treat each other better seems to always be drowned out by the desire to hate, to twist the positivity of those words for ones own benefit. I know there are good people out in the world that need faith and use it to create good things, but these other assholes need a serious check on why they are really doing these things.
Because they are stuck at the exoteric teaching and know nothing about the ecoteric part. 99% of all religious people have no clue what religion really is.
amen lol
It's just that those people have perverted whatever the fuck it is that they think they know. Abrahamic religious texts and books are laden with hypocrisies and contradictions. It's said that there are 101 names for God in the Torah. Ironically it is taught that all of these names for God mean something different therefore you invoke the name of God in vengeance, wrath, or love (and many more). My assumption is that hateful people invoke the names that revolve around punishment. Dafuq do I know tho lol
Hmm.
This ones tough. I felt the same way, once upon a time. Until I came to realize that when people allow their belief systems to become intellectual property instead of how to apply or gain perspective they become enslaved.
Forever living a fake life, already dead but still breathing. Likewise for the hatred. Now. What does the words of the book say?! I'm not sure what your reading. But a wise man once taught me, be not what you consider evil. Yet so, that can some upon all books, commands, laws.
Idk to me its like they got to the point in a mystery novel decided that person was the killer and put the book away only to say "nuh uh this is how it goes" when people have read past that part. I get that its their choice i just don't understand it.
I'm going to assume from your title that you are legitimately asking a question and not just trying to provoke people (though that can be fun!).
First off, in the information age, no one can convincingly argue that people are "brainwashed" into a religion. If people are ignorant of the tenets of their faith and of the dozens of other options, they are willingly so. Therefore, I think that, at least to some extent, people select the faith that best fits them. In fact, the self-selection runs so deep that it applies to what their faith actually teaches -- for better or worse. (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/celia-wexler/cafeteria-catholics-are-i_b_12659234.html)
Secondly, what do you mean by "intolerance" and "promoting hate"? From what you've written, I assume you're talking about Christianity. Is blowing up an abortion clinic hate? Yes. Is assuming all Muslims are terrorists intolerance? Yes. Saying that you personally don't support gay marriage, and you can't do anything to stop it since it's legal now, but that you won't bake a cake for their wedding -- is that intolerance or hate? Sorry, but no. Tolerance doesn't mean total acceptance, it means putting up with things you don't agree with ... including other people's views on what you believe in.
P.S. I can't speak for other religions, but I know in Christianity the reason God was "mean" in the Old Testament and "lovey-dovey" in the New Testament was that in pre-Jesus time, there was supposedly no heaven or hell, so punishment had to be meted out in the good-ol' present.
It definitely was a question to see how others think, and yes it was Christianity but I've seen the 'pick the hate and use it' mind set in many other religions so didn't want to single anyone out specifically.