• Welcome to Religious Forums, a friendly forum to discuss all religions in a friendly surrounding.

    Your voice is missing! You will need to register to get access to the following site features:
    • Reply to discussions and create your own threads.
    • Our modern chat room. No add-ons or extensions required, just login and start chatting!
    • Access to private conversations with other members.

    We hope to see you as a part of our community soon!

The Old Testament was found to be more than twice as violent as the Quran

SalixIncendium

अहं ब्रह्मास्मि
Staff member
Premium Member
Not sure that capital punishment can ever be truly seen as none violent, as the person is dead after, which clearly implies they've been harmed.

In my opinion. :innocent:

But by your own definition...

'Using or involving physical force intended to hurt, damage, or kill someone or something.' - violent define - Google Search

Lethal injection doesn't involve physical force. And please, no semantics about how pushing the plunger on they syringe is physical force.
 

Jumi

Well-Known Member
What war today is about Religion then and where's your evidence?
The wars in Syria, Yemen, Somalia, the plight of the Rohingya are all because of religious fanatics. History is painted with blood by religion, though also by other things like communism and nationalism. My country was force converted, looted and conquered by crusaders. Religion is a convenient excuse for those who love murder. What is better for them than an unbeliever who they think religion has made less than human...
 

wizanda

One Accepts All Religious Texts
Premium Member
But by your own definition...
'Behaviour involving physical force intended to hurt, damage, or kill someone or something.' - violence define - Google Search
Lethal injection doesn't involve physical force.
You have a point that it isn't someone 'physically' administering it, and thus removing culpability of someone being violent... Yet the action of having someone put to death is a violent act.
How far in the past do you believe the last war or last murder was?
'Some 437,000 people murdered worldwide in 2012, according to new UNODC study.'
I mean what fantasy world are you living in that we should dismiss enlightenment to mankinds sinfullness?
OK clearly you've issues understanding what enlightenment means; Yeshua and Daniel said 'the wise will shine, and those who turn many to righteousness shall remain' (Daniel 12:3)... Those are definitions of enlightenment.

Sin which is darkness, is overcome when a person attains light within; that light means to think wisely, to act accordingly, to live righteously.

In my opinion
. :innocent:
 

Brickjectivity

Veteran Member
Staff member
Premium Member
"Using text analytics software he had developed, named Odin Text" laughable.

"By categorising words into eight emotions - Joy, Anticipation, Anger, Disgust, Sadness, Surprise, Fear/Anxiety and Trust - the analysis found the Bible scored higher for anger and much lower for trust than the Quran." laughable

"Killing and destruction are referenced slightly more often in the New Testament (2.8%) than in the Quran (2.1%), but the Old Testament clearly leads—more than twice that of the Quran—in mentions of destruction and killing (5.3%)." I see, so because The Bible discourages violence it is criticized as supporting it through the mere admission of its existence. So by this software its better to just not talk about problems, and you take this joker seriously, Wiz?
 

It Aint Necessarily So

Veteran Member
Premium Member
Imagine if there was just one religion globally, where we all had the same goals of enlightened world peace together.

If by a religion you mean an ideology or worldview based on a god belief, why do we need even one? What does that idea add to world peace?

Most if not all of the atheists I know are secular humanists and gentle, peaceful people with good hearts trying to raise families well, be good neighbors, and leave the world a better place than they found it. That's what we would expect from a worldview that advocates for reason, skepticism, tolerance, diversity, compassion, the arts and sciences, democracy, freedom, and the autonomy and maximal development of the individual.

Many Christians, Jews and Muslims are undoubtedly the same and hold many if not all of the same values, but too many are made worse people by their religious beliefs.

I just read an article yesterday ( White Evangelicals Overwhelmingly Support Alleged Pedophile in AL Senate Race ) with a survey and the following result. What do we need with such ideas as those being taught to Southern white evangelicals in the world? :

WPostPollMoore.jpg
 

Stevicus

Veteran Member
Staff member
Premium Member
Someone analysed the Bible and Quran to see which is more violent

Personally find this interesting that when based on a analytical perspective, it says the Jews have far more violent beliefs than Muslims; thus should either book be endorsed in society anymore, when they encourage such disgusting acts?

Like shouldn't we move on from the barbaric past that humans have had, instead of teach it to our children as religious values to live by.

In my opinion. :innocent:

I'm not sure how much value there is in analyzing the various scriptures and books. After all, if people did things "by the book," practiced what they preached, and remained true to their stated belief systems, then many of the problems we face (both past and present) probably never would have happened. This is just as true for political beliefs as it is for religious beliefs.
 

1robin

Christian/Baptist
Someone analysed the Bible and Quran to see which is more violent

Personally find this interesting that when based on a analytical perspective, it says the Jews have far more violent beliefs than Muslims; thus should either book be endorsed in society anymore, when they encourage such disgusting acts?

Like shouldn't we move on from the barbaric past that humans have had, instead of teach it to our children as religious values to live by.

In my opinion. :innocent:
This is where research and context make all the difference in the world.

1. The OT (unlike the NT) is the record of cultural group of people. All cultures (especially in the ANE) had constant battles and wars back then. The OT simply records them, it does not condone most of them. Some are not ordered by God but God does not punish Israel for them, some of them bring God's wrath down upon his own people, some concern the complete destruction of Israel at the hands of others which God motivated, and others are God's orders for Israel to fight others.
2. What there isn't are open ended commands to kill all non-believers such as the Quran contains.
3. While the OT is simply a record of history good and bad, the Quran is the record of a semi-successful tyrant cloaking his evil as God's will.

It takes a lot more work to compare the Quran and the bible if you going to attempt it, than you have devoted to it.
 
Last edited:

1robin

Christian/Baptist
If by a religion you mean an ideology or worldview based on a god belief, why do we need even one? What does that idea add to world peace?

Most if not all of the atheists I know are secular humanists and gentle, peaceful people with good hearts trying to raise families well, be good neighbors, and leave the world a better place than they found it. That's what we would expect from a worldview that advocates for reason, skepticism, tolerance, diversity, compassion, the arts and sciences, democracy, freedom, and the autonomy and maximal development of the individual.

Many Christians, Jews and Muslims are undoubtedly the same and hold many if not all of the same values, but too many are made worse people by their religious beliefs.

I just read an article yesterday ( White Evangelicals Overwhelmingly Support Alleged Pedophile in AL Senate Race ) with a survey and the following result. What do we need with such ideas as those being taught to Southern white evangelicals in the world? :

WPostPollMoore.jpg
What in the world is your point behind posting this data? What is the conclusion? I am from Alabama. We are overwhelmingly conservative Christians, Moore claims to be a conservative Christian so what is the problem here?
 

Lyndon

"Peace is the answer" quote: GOD, 2014
Premium Member
The Koran never tells you to kill all non believers, that's just right wing propaganda.
 

Lyndon

"Peace is the answer" quote: GOD, 2014
Premium Member
What in the world is your point behind posting this data? What is the conclusion? I am from Alabama. We are overwhelmingly conservative Christians, Moore claims to be a conservative Christian so what is the problem here?

The problem is he's an accused child molester, DUH!!!!
 

wizanda

One Accepts All Religious Texts
Premium Member
you take this joker seriously, Wiz?
Having read both texts, aware of the amount of battles, war like mentality, corporal punishment, etc...

So the idea a computer can even see these texts need fixing, says something to me, we need to evolve out of the Dark Ages, and move into an Age of Enlightenment, where that mentality is no longer tolerated.
much lower for trust than the Quran." laughable
Agree this point is laughable, as found on reading the Quran the amount of times it tells you to trust the word of Muhammad, made me dubious; as when someone is telling me to trust them all the time, found they're generally a blagger.
If by a religion you mean an ideology or worldview based on a god belief, why do we need even one?
Because we want a fully logical scientific comprehensive guide to reality; thus we can not miss out that there is a CPU manifesting the Matrix we exist within at a quantum level....

Agree get rid of the superstitious hocus pocus, and lets deal with the facts instead.
which God motivated
YHVH Elohim supposedly motivated it (Exodus 15:3), in a time as you say where war like gods were prominent...

Thus we can understand a tribal mentality, creating texts justify their own actions as Godly...

Yet if we see the God Most High as a 100% logical CPU that manifests reality; which makes us not to like pain, and to seek pleasure, that to me is totally alien to what God is about.
The Koran never tells you to kill all non believers, that's just right wing propaganda.
2:191 'And kill them wherever you find them, and drive them out from whence they drove you out, and persecution is severer than slaughter, and do not fight with them at the Sacred Mosque until they fight with you in it, but if they do fight you, then slay them; such is the recompense of the unbelievers.'

Al-Fitnah - Those who disbelieve.

We could also post all the ones about Mushrikin (polytheists) which is far worse, as it endorses hunting them down from the way i read it.

Please note i accept everyone's texts, and have not dismissed any; just seriously people, we need to take on board what it says, where it came from, and then move on.

In my opinion. :innocent:
 

It Aint Necessarily So

Veteran Member
Premium Member
What in the world is your point behind posting this data?
I made my point explicitly. Somebody advocated for a single world religion, and I advocated for a world without religion. I picked the Alabama data because I had just seen it yesterday. There's a lot of religion in Alabama. It doesn't seem to be making people better people.

I could have used priest data instead. There's a lot of religion in Catholic churches. And pedophilia.

Or Muslim data. There's plenty of religion in the places where people are suicide bombers, do honor killings, push homosexuals off of towers, behead people, throw acid in people's faces, and burn them alive in cages.

I read your other post comparing the Old Testament to the Qur'an. You seemed to be saying that the OT is less bad because not all of the genocides in it were ordered by God, and it doesn't contain an order to kill infidels. The OP seems to be suggesting the opposite - that the Qur'an is less bad, or at least less violent.

Secular humanism repudiates both, as well as the murderous, non-religious authoritarian regimes:
  • "We affirm humanism as a realistic alternative to theologies of despair and ideologies of violence" - Affirmations of Humanism
That's a worldview that one can be proud of, one which generates culturally healthy people. It contains the best aspects of religion without all of the harm. The typical humanist is more Christlike than the typical Christian. The Golden Rule is why secular humanists support tolerance and support for homosexuals and transgendered people whether included in either of those groups or not. It's why straight secular humanists supported the dignity and legal protections afforded by same sex marriage as Christians fought it is diligently as possible. Which group embodied the Golden Rule better? Which is working toward a more peaceful, equitable world?

Get the point now? If we're going to advocate for a universal worldview, let it be that one and none of the religions.

What is the conclusion?

Isn't it obvious? What has religion created in Alabama? Why are most white, conservative Christians in Alabama willing to vote for a pedophile? Why did just as many white evangelicals vote for an admitted sexual predator for president? White evangelicals voted overwhelmingly for Donald Trump, exit polls show

I am from Alabama. We are overwhelmingly conservative Christians, Moore claims to be a conservative Christian so what is the problem here?

How about that kind of thinking? Is that your full analysis? Is that all you require of a candidate? What would Moore have to do to make him unacceptable to you?

I've undoubtedly offended you, and for that I apologize. But there is no way to discuss these matters without breaking a few eggs. I can assure you my ideas are carefully considered, sincerely believed, and constructively offered in the marketplace of ideas with the purpose of helping create a slightly better world, not to insult Christians or Muslims.

Having said that, some religions seem pretty harmless, especially the ones that are philosophical rather than revelatory. I suppose that a world of Zen Buddhists would be fine.
 

sun rise

The world is on fire
Premium Member
The wars in Syria, Yemen, Somalia, the plight of the Rohingya are all because of religious fanatics. History is painted with blood by religion, though also by other things like communism and nationalism. My country was force converted, looted and conquered by crusaders. Religion is a convenient excuse for those who love murder. What is better for them than an unbeliever who they think religion has made less than human...
A lot of that is both religious and political. Communists murdered 1 million of their own people in Cambodia not so long ago. Stalin and his henchmen killed a million or more of their own citizens. The Holocaust happened because Jews and others were considered to be "garbage people" by the Nazis.

The OP does a service by pointing out that violence in scripture can be quantified. The real question to me follows: how many religious people interpret those passages as justification for slaughtering other people.

We see a few, Muslims, Jews, Buddhists even, Hindus who do commit violence in the name of religion but the majority just want to be left alone to live in peace.
 

Lyndon

"Peace is the answer" quote: GOD, 2014
Premium Member
Having read both texts, aware of the amount of battles, war like mentality, corporal punishment, etc...

So the idea a computer can even see these texts need fixing, says something to me, we need to evolve out of the Dark Ages, and move into an Age of Enlightenment, where that mentality is no longer tolerated.

Agree this point is laughable, as found on reading the Quran the amount of times it tells you to trust the word of Muhammad, made me dubious; as when someone is telling me to trust them all the time, found they're generally a blagger.

Because we want a fully logical scientific comprehensive guide to reality; thus we can not miss out that there is a CPU manifesting the Matrix we exist within at a quantum level....

Agree get rid of the superstitious hocus pocus, and lets deal with the facts instead.

YHVH Elohim supposedly motivated it (Exodus 15:3), in a time as you say where war like gods were prominent...

Thus we can understand a tribal mentality, creating texts justify their own actions as Godly...

Yet if we see the God Most High as a 100% logical CPU that manifests reality; which makes us not to like pain, and to seek pleasure, that to me is totally alien to what God is about.

2:191 'And kill them wherever you find them, and drive them out from whence they drove you out, and persecution is severer than slaughter, and do not fight with them at the Sacred Mosque until they fight with you in it, but if they do fight you, then slay them; such is the recompense of the unbelievers.'

Al-Fitnah - Those who disbelieve.

We could also post all the ones about Mushrikin (polytheists) which is far worse, as it endorses hunting them down from the way i read it.

Please note i accept everyone's texts, and have not dismissed any; just seriously people, we need to take on board what it says, where it came from, and then move on.

In my opinion. :innocent:

As I said the Koran does not say to kill all unbelievers.
 

Lyndon

"Peace is the answer" quote: GOD, 2014
Premium Member
But by your own definition...



Lethal injection doesn't involve physical force. And please, no semantics about how pushing the plunger on they syringe is physical force.

by this logic poisoning someone so that they fall asleep and die would not be considered violent
 

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
Someone analysed the Bible and Quran to see which is more violent

Personally find this interesting that when based on a analytical perspective, it says the Jews have far more violent beliefs than Muslims; thus should either book be endorsed in society anymore, when they encourage such disgusting acts?

Like shouldn't we move on from the barbaric past that humans have had, instead of teach it to our children as religious values to live by.

In my opinion. :innocent:
How much of the violence in the book is a prescription for violence by the believers?
 

1robin

Christian/Baptist
The problem is he's an accused child molester, DUH!!!!
No the problem is that your equating accusations with facts. Apparently you think the idea that we are presumed innocent until proven guilty is a bad idea. If you were honest when called upon, you would be struck from every jury in the country. You would probably like the DPRK a lot better, I recommend you take a long vacation there.
 

wizanda

One Accepts All Religious Texts
Premium Member
How much of the violence in the book is a prescription for violence by the believers?
Interesting question...

As the Bible doesn't as a whole tell believers to kill people over religious beliefs alone; yet more to do it to steal their land, and acquire their resources...

Still think violence is promoted in it as a way to achieve peace. :confused:

In my opinion
. :innocent:
 
Top