5th September 2005, 9:06 AM
Currently? No I don't see any of those religions kililng people, but it's a little silly to say that you can only count the ones currently being violent. In the past, the muslims were more peaceful, and well, I do seem to recall the crusades.
Wiccans are such a small religion that they can't really organize anything violent or peaceful. Generally, that religion consists of downcast teenage girls who don't even realize there are other beliefs around magic like druidism. However, I'm fairly sure they have some serious potential. When they flat out deny even the possibility that magic could work in any other way than they describe or even that alternative religions that believe as much EXIST, that can produce trouble.
Buddhists haven't always been so peaceful... The very fact that a lot of buddhist monks practice the martial arts says something about the history there.
The only thing I'm saying here is no religion is immune to idealism producing extremism, and that this particular one is just another in a long line.
Wiccans are such a small religion that they can't really organize anything violent or peaceful. Generally, that religion consists of downcast teenage girls who don't even realize there are other beliefs around magic like druidism. However, I'm fairly sure they have some serious potential. When they flat out deny even the possibility that magic could work in any other way than they describe or even that alternative religions that believe as much EXIST, that can produce trouble.
Buddhists haven't always been so peaceful... The very fact that a lot of buddhist monks practice the martial arts says something about the history there.
The only thing I'm saying here is no religion is immune to idealism producing extremism, and that this particular one is just another in a long line.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)