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TimSpong
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Tue, 12 Jun 2007 15:49
mrben43 wrote:
There is one solid fact regarding a link between external stimulus and real-world violence: reading literature that states that your deity is better than another deity has lead to the murders of the Inquisition and the Crusades.


Have you got a reference for that research?


Damned fine question and well put. I think we've been here before, however, as these come from the Bible itself, and the Bible was the 'jumping off point' for both the Inquisition(s) and the Crusade(s), I figure these should serve as basic research.

Deuteronomy 17:12 wrote:
Anyone arrogant enough to reject the verdict of the judge or of the priest who represents the LORD your God must be put to death. Such evil must be purged from Israel.


Chronicles 15:12-13 wrote:
They entered into a covenant to seek the Lord, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and soul; and everyone who would not seek the Lord, the God of Israel, was to be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman.


Deuteronomy 13:7-12 wrote:

If your own full brother, or your son or daughter, or your beloved wife, or you intimate friend, entices you secretly to serve other gods, whom you and your fathers have not known, gods of any other nations, near at hand or far away, from one end of the earth to the other: do not yield to him or listen to him, nor look with pity upon him, to spare or shield him, but kill him. Your hand shall be the first raised to slay him; the rest of the people shall join in with you. You shall stone him to death, because he sought to lead you astray from the Lord, your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that place of slavery. And all Israel, hearing of this, shall fear and never do such evil as this in your midst.


Or, we can turn to the Pope - in this case the Address Of Pope John Paul II
To An International Symposium On The Inquisition - Saturday, 31 October 1998.

Pope JP II wrote:
4. Ladies and Gentlemen! The problem of the Inquisition belongs to a troubled period of the Church’s history, which I have invited Christians to revisit with an open mind. As I wrote in the Apostolic Letter Tertio millennio adveniente: “Another painful chapter of history to which the sons and daughters of the Church must return with a spirit of repentance is that of the acquiescence given, especially in certain centuries, to intolerance and even the use of violence in the service of the truth” (n. 35).


Now, I know there are also guidelines for righteous murder of real people in the tracts of many other religions - so these are just some basic references.

Even good old Buddhism has a wee crack in it, justifying killing real life people:

Yogacarya Bhumi Shastra wrote:
Suppose a bodhisattva sees that a vicious robber intends to kill many people for the sake of wealth; or intends to harm virtuous shravakas, pratyekabuddhas, or bodhisattvas; or intends to do other things that will cause him to fall into the Uninterrupted hell. When seeing this, the bodhisattva will think, "If I kill that person, I will fall into the hells; if I do not kill him, he will commit crimes which will lead him to the Uninterrupted hell, where he will suffer greatly. I would rather kill him and fall to the hells myself than let him undergo great suffering in the Uninterrupted hell. Then, deeply regretting the necessity for this action, and with a heart full of compassion, he will kill that person. In doing this, he does not violate the bodhisattva precepts; instead, he generates many merits."


'Heart full of compassion" and everything...

I can't recall any game manual ever saying, "In the event that you don't finish level 4 because your little brother hath smited your knee with his pacifier, your training wilt thence divine it okey-dokey to smite him unto death so'est thou might carry on to the boss level."

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