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Most Christian scripture speaks of peace and love rather than of war. Little that is attributed to Jesus really advocates violence; most advocates peace, love, and service to others. How, then, has Christianity managed to be so violent? Justifying violence and war hasn’t been very hard, unfortunately. The fact that these religions also offer many statements on behalf of peace, love, and non-violence doesn’t change this. Religions offer contradictory statements on all issues, allowing people to find justification for just about any position within any religious tradition of sufficient complexity and age.
Religious belief systems are like any complex ideology or philosophy ??? which is to say that they don’t force only certain conclusions and no others. When it comes to non-religious belief systems, people have come to terms with this. They may not like it very much, but they accept that differences and disagreements are necessary. Religions, though, don’t typically allow for this and so we have people fighting over the One True Interpretation of religious tradition. This, ironically enough, merely serves to add to the violence. (Book Notes: The Crusades) By Austin Cline, About. com Guide November 29, 2005 )-I personally do not believe that there is not religion in the world, which has not been used for to justify wars, violence and crimes. Obviously these religious doctrines have been used as banners to hide behind them, the real reason for the war: “The desire for power of some people”, a justification to get what they want. Perhaps, although being the case in most situations, I also believe that people designed to fight these wars, sincerely and genuinely believe they were doing the right thing, that war and violence were the right way to beat people with different beliefs and different gods.
Since its inception the Christian religion has been used fear, force, and the punishment for converting or defeats those who practice religions other than his doctrines. During the year 391 CE, the Christians enforced public morality, first they saw the Jews as they obstacle, then nonbelievers. Then were The Crusades, the Inquisition, the conquest of America, the burn of the witches, and many more crimes done on the name of God.
For more than two thousand years the Christians justified their violence saying that the act of physical force, homicide or injury to the human body, was not intentionally evil. They show to the world those crimes as an altruist intension to do the best for Humanity, which needs to get rid of those that do not have faith. These are crimes of prejudice done on behalf of a religion which considers itself superior and unique, contempt and wiping out without compassion to all those who do not follow their doctrines.