So when saying doctrine, also including the things taught within it?
So for instance Sikhs are trained warriors, with horse back riding, always carrying a knife, etc.
Taoism established Kungfu, thus has a whole martial arts dedicated to it.
Yet in both of these, they are taught as self defense, and used to protect.
So before anyone puts Islam, as far as i was aware Jihad means to protect, not to go attacking people.
Yet Islam is far from innocent, with countless battles described within it, where Allah gives favour to his people to win wars.
So on to the Jewish Bible, which clearly has more wars, violence, brutalization, and severe punishment system than the rest....So i suppose since I've already half answered it, is there any religion less violent?
People are violent anyway, and recognition of that seems to help dissolve the issue; so at extreme sports matches, such as boxing, rugby, American football, there is then less violence.... Almost like it releases some of the piped up aggression, we all have to some extent.
So what if the religions of violence had some form of martial art/self defense system added to them, do you think it might resolve them causing such violence in the world?
This OP and subsequent post are really poor work in proving (or even suggesting) that Judaism is especially violent.
Perhaps you meant to say, which religion has the most violence in its Books? I'm not familiar with other religions books, but I can hear an argument that the Tanach favored by Jews and Christians might contain the most violence.
But I suppose the reason you didn't want to formulate the OP in that way, is that you realize that violent texts do not automatically equate to violence. Christians on the whole are not running around waving guns in the air screaming Yeshu Akbar. Jews are not running into cafes with semi-automatics. Violent texts can encourage violence, yes, but its demonstrably not true that the more violent a text, the more violent its adherents. Which would render your point that violence in Jewish texts proves that Jews are violent, moot.
Instead, your OP asks, "which
is the most violent religion based on doctrine". In other words, of all religions have violent texts, which one is currently the most violent?
You give examples of religions that [currently] teach violence (as defensive measures) as part of their teachings (Sikhs and Taoists). I can definitely hear why you would suggest these two in a list of violent religions, since (if what you say is true,) martial arts are a part of their distinct teachings.
For some reason though, you gloss over Christianity and Islam, arguably two religions most easily associated with violence in the past two millennia (inquisitions, pogroms, crusades, wars and a substantial amount of terrorism today) and jump to Judaism, a religion that has no such doctrinal teaching or requirement, nor is any sort of martial act taught in any form as a religious doctrine in any Jewish school in the world now or in the knowable past. In fact off-hand, the only (non-defensive) violence that can be attributed to Judaism, took place before the invention of both Christianity and Islam (in the form of the Sicarii). And that mostly took place against occupying Romans. Hardly relevant to a discussion of current violent religions.
So the question of your title is: of the many religious doctrines that espouse some form of violence or other in the many religions of the world, which one is causing its adherents to kill and injure the most people today?
Shouldn't be too hard to figure out.
That would be if it was true; based on the doctrine (if you've read the texts), many are not teaching peace....
Islam doesn't teach peace, just to protect what they have, and to kill infidels; yet it is based on the war like mentality of Judaism...Though Islam does mean 'submit to peace'; yet hasn't been often applied.
Judaism is full of atrocities, which then Christianity is established on...
Yeshua didn't come to bring peace either; yet the sword of division, to make everyone fight against each other.
This post is in all honesty worse than the first.
"War like mentality of Judaism"? My friend. Up until about 200 years ago, practically every Jew in the world was either living crammed together on a little Judengasse, living out in the village trying to eke out a living under the resident poritz, or living as dhimmi. Try to learn from other history professors besides Mr. Duke. Even if there ever was some sort of "war like mentality", your ancestors and their friends in most countries throughout Eurasia and North Africa had done their bestest to stamp it out through persecution, oppression and expulsions. To clarify, in order to establish a "war like mentality" of the Jewish nation, you need to point to "war like" actions that have taken place by Jews as a nation at least currently if not some amount of recent history.
That isn't true, one of the reasons the Jews have been kicked out of so many countries is for ritually sacrificing children, etc....
You do realize that by making such a[n absurd] comment, you are making the argument that Jewish violence is
not a result of their teachings, since Jewish Law prohibits ritual sacrifice of any persons. Which nicely contrasts with your OP about Jewish violence stemming from its doctrines...
Oral tradition states that, 'the death of the righteous, can atone for the sins of that generation'...So hardly not bloody.
It kind of seems you just through this in here because it could be perceived as being violent when connected with the rest of your post.
"Rabbi Elazar said, why is the mention of the priestly garments put next to mention of the death of Aaron (Num. 20:28)? To teach that just as the priestly garments atone, so too does the death of the righteous."
-Babylonian Talmud, tractate Moed Katan 28a
Not a lot of bloody violence there.