Is christianity in itself responsible for war or are people responsible?
Often times we overlook the truth on what the real problem is. The disease of the human nature in itslef is the problem. Humans are flawed, broken, and of need of constant repair. We label everything and we always want to blame someone or something for the worlds problems. The truth is their is no perfect system because we are the system and its broken. Jesus is the way out of our systematic failure. Wether or not you beleive him to be the son of God or not his teachings are without a doubt revolutionary and good. Christianity cannot be held resonsible for war because Jesus taught the opposite of war and the opposite of hate.
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It is like this. Even if Christianity did somehow come before people (not likely but whatever, it's irrelevant) people ultimately make decisions themselves, even with religious influence in mind, the people will make the actions. If the bible blatantly says'kill non believers' to blame the bible for killings, is absurd, because the people can choose to, or choose not to follow that rule. With this in mind, Christianity is not 100% free of guilt, since at the end of the day it is still doing the influencing, it's just not the main issue, or in it's dormant state, the issue we should be looking to stop. I look at the bible like this: a guy is holding a gun to your head, but it's not actually a guy or a gun, but instead a story of a guy holding a gun to your head. Unfortunately we can't choose what to believe, and some people are stuck believing the guy is actually holding the gun to your head, and they go on to teach their children of the guy holding the gun to your head, but a logical mind will deduce from the lack of evidence that the guy might not actually exist, and that it's all just a story. With this in mind, I believe that while men are responsible for the crimes of men, and Christianity only plays a small part in the decision to commit those crimes, that if we simply educate people better, the crimes of men, blamed on Christianity will be reduced and eventually gotten rid of even... only to be replaced with crimes of men blamed on something else (but that's a whole other debate :)) Side: People
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Ok. So far all the arguments for this side have all basically said "people created Christianity, so people are the ones at fault," and while that is a good argument to make in blaming people for wars that does not absolve Christianity of its influence. I'll try to explain this in a different way. Although Christianity seems to be the point on which so many wars have begun over, it is not the religion itself that at fault, but a misinterpretation of its teachings by the people. The point of Christianity is not to kill everybody who disagrees with it, but because of the flaws in human nature that is how some people decided to exert their beliefs. Let me give an example... Say somebody told their child that they should be honest, and the child ran off and insulted the next person they saw because they were "being honest". Does that make the parent at fault for the sins of their child? No. Just because somebody, in trying to show someone the truth, ended up accidently misleading them to behave otherwise does not mean that they were responsible for the wrongdoings of that person. I would give a quote from st Augustine, because I know he talked about this with regards to scripture... But I can't for the life of me remember where. Oh well. Side: People
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