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 and it's not as if the so-called peaceful religions

00:31have not indulged in violence.

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

00:40sense, Hindus versus Buddhists, ignorance is so powerful and its appetite is so huge,

00:48it can consume even religion when the central purpose of religion is to defeat ignorance.