Michael F asked:


THANK YOU for taking time to read this and answer my question.

Terrorism – The unlawful use or threatened use of force or violence by a person or an organized group against people or property with the intention of intimidating or coercing societies or governments, often for ideological, beliefs of faith or political reasons.

Now the QQuestion and what has occurred to lead me to it?

Is Religion a Form of Mental Terrorism done by extremists?

I would fall asleep with vision of bible story’s read to me as a kid Terrorized me with visions of devils, and of hell with its everlasting fire and worms that never die,and of a place called purgatory, where the souls are purged until they are clean to enter heaven. It terrorReligions that rely on guilt and fear to control the sheeple are not attractive to people who can think for themselves or fear true questions of introspection that permits metal growth. People are threatened with so called hell and fire if they even begin to think for themselves! It is so sad that so many religious people make God out to be this evil being that punishes people over sin!That’s why they start with the young: teach them something that has no basis in fact, because they’re more likely to reject it if they pick it up as adults than if they memorize it as children.Considering that parents start indoctrinating their children at a very young age ”be good, and you be fine”!
But, if you don’t you’ll go to hell!
Now, how is that NOT terrorism??It’s just not religion, but people anxious from power? Wasn’t the church at 1 point the only position of power controlling education not allowing anyone to learn how to read.
I spent my whole childhood terrified of the dark, waiting for the devil to come and ”get me” for the least infraction of the rules.
I am positive that my parents were not intending to scare me to death, but the sad truth is that the result was the same!
It is so ingrained into your subconscious, it can’t help but flow over into your adult psyche, Religion is one of the most serious mental illnesses of today? Is it the inability to face the reality of life and the finality of death and they feed that fear with? or Is it more as mental slavery?

Now the idea of extremism

does extremism corrupt the ideas behind religion and its teachings?

All extremism is evil, it is a form of obsession/greed. so that being said why are we categorizing Islam under terrorism in the media? doesn’t anyone remember Timothy McVay bombing he was a national extremist? the true Terrorist is the extremist?

so that being said the extreme left wing, the extreme right wing, the extreme nationals, the extreme Christian(crusades, abortion clinic massacres), Jewish(western bank, war of the temple), Islamic(Western bank, war of the temple). Obsessing about ones religion and Forcing in on to others through any media or self is terrorism on the conscious mind? God loves only those that are catholic, i mean Islamic, ooppps i mean Jewish?

EXAMPLE so my RELIGION _____ makes me better then anyone else? and if don’t believe, your going to hell, limbo, whatever? what kind of Hippocratcie is that? god is universal, in my opinion i think hate should be a sin…..i don’t think god would want to teach hate, but acceptance of love.

we preach religious freedoms, but do we practice love for others? Puritan Massachusetts i, kicking out the Catholics and Jews in the 1600s to 1800s, sent them to Rhode Island with nothing but what they could carry.

where is there sense in that view point? what happened to respect or even rationality?

do u feel like the media is making attack on Islam?Don’t we need to fight all religious extremism Instead of one? I would love another perspective and opinion thank you for taking time to read this.

p.s i do believe in god/creator, i just don’t believe in organized religion.