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6) Most bigotries and atrocities blamed on religion are actually chargeable to wicked intellectual. The spirit of dogmatic domainion, passion for laying down law in theoretic system. Some offences are associated with antisemitism villaam James pragmatist link to basic human tendency to hate people & things that are foreign and different, intensely loyal and narrow mind is once grasped by feeling that certain super human person is worthy of its exclusive devotion than vocabularies are exhausted & languages altered in attempt to praise him enough. Trouble starts when slightest affront or neglect of worshipped one must be resented, deity's enemies must be put to shame People with narrow mind & strong will power urge to protect deity & to attack those who offend his name can become an engrossing preoccupation & result can be crusades and massacres. When behaviour towards others is violent or destructive, it causes suffering. It is sure your religion has been corrupted & reform is desperately needed.
You should be careful when believer claims to possess complete, unchanging & absolute truth. If demand, blind obedience or claim to possess mandate of God because authentic religion encourages questions and reflection at all levels.
Religious impulse sometimes operates benignly & constructively help people to deal with the inescapable & terrifying challenges of life. All religions of east or west can provide fertile ground for the growth of close mindedness, hatred, bigotry, violence. Bin Ladens views were extreme so they inspired evil & his end was evil.
Religious life of extremists cry out of psychological analysis Osama Bin Laden was loved and respected in Jalalabad in Afghanistan because in their view he was combating injustice and wanted to liberate islamic lands, riches & money was put at service of community and splendour others. Extremist in every faith arrive at their fanatism through combination of personal peculiarities and religious ideology. Destructive faith is not only religious ideology but role of faith is not only religious ideology but role of faith. played in individuals psychological make up. Hitler has hypnotic ability to pronounce a message that people wanted to hear his message was partily political and partly psychological. Laden's ideology was common to muslim population drawn to extremism by idiosyncrasies by their psychic make up to extremism prone personalities common among many fanatics.
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