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Many of the world's most dangerous terrorist groups claim religion as their motivation. How can the word of God sanction the killing of innocent people? How can violence become a sacred duty?
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Many of the world's most dangerous terrorist groups claim religion as their motivation. How can the word of God sanction the killing of innocent people? How can violence become a sacred duty? To begin answering these questions, it is necessary to examine the history of and tendency toward violence inherent to the structure of elective monotheist religions, specifically Christianity, Judaism and Islam. In mentioning these three religions, I will also discuss their basic belief systems in comparison to their respective fundamentalist sects. Before I begin, I want to make it clear that I realize not all members of these religions are violent people or that they engage in violent behavior in the name of faith. According to MS Jaffe, author of "One God, One Revelation, One People: On the Symbolic Structure of Elective Monotheism", monotheistic religions spur violence because of their structure. A religion can be categorized as...
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