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Lets keep this debate civil


If you have a child, and your friend comes up to your child and threatens to shank him/her if he/she misbehaves, you would be pissed off at him/her right?

In turn, if an old man in a robe tells your child that if he/she does not follow the scriptures of their religion, they will be tortured and burned for all eternity and that the only way to avoid such a fate is to have faith and to follow all the rules would you be okay with that?

Hoboy.

Well, In the terms of religion, I think you agree your child will be taught that.

ATXMILEY wrote:
Lets keep this debate civil


If you have a child, and your friend comes up to your child and threatens to shank him/her if he/she misbehaves, you would be pissed off at him/her right?

In turn, if an old man in a robe tells your child that if he/she does not follow the scriptures of their religion, they will be tortured and burned for all eternity and that the only way to avoid such a fate is to have faith and to follow all the rules would you be okay with that?

That's not what my religion teaches, so no. My religion is not fear mongering.

Relapse wrote:

ATXMILEY wrote:
Lets keep this debate civil


If you have a child, and your friend comes up to your child and threatens to shank him/her if he/she misbehaves, you would be pissed off at him/her right?

In turn, if an old man in a robe tells your child that if he/she does not follow the scriptures of their religion, they will be tortured and burned for all eternity and that the only way to avoid such a fate is to have faith and to follow all the rules would you be okay with that?

That's not what my religion teaches, so no. My religion is not fear mongering.

Of course not all religions teach that, but many of the largest religions do

Various denominations may teach different aspects of the scripture, but the base scripture says what it says

ATXMILEY wrote:

Relapse wrote:

ATXMILEY wrote:
Lets keep this debate civil


If you have a child, and your friend comes up to your child and threatens to shank him/her if he/she misbehaves, you would be pissed off at him/her right?

In turn, if an old man in a robe tells your child that if he/she does not follow the scriptures of their religion, they will be tortured and burned for all eternity and that the only way to avoid such a fate is to have faith and to follow all the rules would you be okay with that?

That's not what my religion teaches, so no. My religion is not fear mongering.

Of course not all religions teach that, but many of the largest religions do

Various denominations may teach different aspects of the scripture, but the base scripture says what it says

The title of your thread seems to give a blanket statement, though, so I figured I'd answer for my religion.

 curran12 wrote:
Hoboy.

Yep.

I have my bingo card ready and waiting.

Relapse wrote:

ATXMILEY wrote:

Relapse wrote:

ATXMILEY wrote:
Lets keep this debate civil


If you have a child, and your friend comes up to your child and threatens to shank him/her if he/she misbehaves, you would be pissed off at him/her right?

In turn, if an old man in a robe tells your child that if he/she does not follow the scriptures of their religion, they will be tortured and burned for all eternity and that the only way to avoid such a fate is to have faith and to follow all the rules would you be okay with that?

That's not what my religion teaches, so no. My religion is not fear mongering.

Of course not all religions teach that, but many of the largest religions do

Various denominations may teach different aspects of the scripture, but the base scripture says what it says

The title of your thread seems to give a blanket statement, though, so I figured I'd answer for my religion.

Yeah I'll change the title to be less vague,

This was what initially came to my mind:


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=T5evsxRdkJw

Depends what you mean. Absolutely any religion can be used for fear mongering, but that usually varies on a person/regional basis. Islam and Christianity can both be fear mongering religions, but that really delves more with the individuals than the religion itself.

 jreilly89 wrote:
Depends what you mean. Absolutely any religion can be used for fear mongering, but that usually varies on a person/regional basis. Islam and Christianity can both be fear mongering religions, but that really delves more with the individuals than the religion itself.

The thing is is that those religions you mention is somewhat innately fear mongering as the the fire and brimstone is in the main text itself though it may be up to interpretation(lets not forget the million different translations and revisions over the years)

If an old man in a robe approaches my children, my first concern is that the guy is a lunatic pedophile. Doesn't matter what gibberish he may be spouting.

Edited.

Rusty Trombone wrote:
If an old man in a robe approaches my children, my first concern is that the guy is a lunatic pedophile. Doesn't matter what gibberish he may be spouting.

Catholic priests... shudder

inb4 lock!

Religion has the potential to both be good and bad.

 Sigvatr wrote:


Religion has the potential to both be good and bad.

All sorted.

ATXMILEY wrote:


The thing is is that those religions you mention is somewhat innately fear mongering as the the fire and brimstone is in the main text itself though it may be up to interpretation(lets not forget the million different translations and revisions over the years)

Yes. Quite.

We Christians would say it's equivalent to parents using fear to keep their children from playing in the street.


fyi it's often best to come out and state what you'd like to talk about rather than tap dance in circles before roosting on the actual point you want to make.

Your title and/or OP should have gone something along the lines of "Do Christianity/Islam survive off of/perpetuate the act of fear-mongering?"

Honesty is worth a lot, if for nothing more than helping people decide if they want to be a part of the conversation.