Religion and Violence || Acharya Prashant

Full video: Religious fanatics and bigots - Where do they come from? || Acharya Prashant, at IIT-Delhi (2023)

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00:00That more people have died in the name of religion than due to any other cause.

00:06Think of the crusades, the long wars between the Muslims and the Christians.

00:10If you study history, you will know how bloody they were.

00:13More recently look at 1971, because the Pakistani army when it got violent, it killed both Bengali

00:20Muslims and Bengali Hindus, but mostly and the murders and the rapes were just countless

00:26and all that in the name of religion.

00:28And it's not as if the so-called peaceful religions have not indulged in violence.

00:34Look at Burma, even the long struggle that you had in Sri Lanka was religious in some

00:40sense.

00:41Hindus versus Buddhists, ignorance is so powerful and its appetite is so huge, it can consume

00:49even religion when the central purpose of religion is to defeat ignorance.