When does religion become radical?

[Urran]

Just a question I was thinking of in my spare time. When does religion cross the line to radicalism? When you're willing to kill for it? When you're willing to die for it?

Rules:

1. No debates as to whether the existence of a higher power is real or not.

2. No Flamming, trolling, spamming, ect.

[Nanatsu no Tsuki]

Well, what do you think, OP? When do you think religion becomes radical?

[Urran]

Well, what do you think, OP? When do you think religion becomes radical?

When it invades every part of your life.

[Aeternabilis]

When people start killing in the name of it.

[Ndaku]

When the most extreme devout of the religion begin to take the teachings from their sacred writing too literally.

[Urran]

When the most extreme devout of the religion begin to take the teachings from their sacred writing too literally.

wouldn't that be most?

[The New Sea Territory]

When people believe it, read there holy books and actually accept it.

[Sweet Kush]

Religion becomes radical the moment it starts arming it's members.

[Ararat Mountain]

When people believe it, read there holy books and actually accept it.

That is not radical, that is like saying "You played Nationstates once? You must be an internet addict!"

[Ararat Mountain]

It becomes radical when you can see or hear someone yell "allah akbar" really loud.

[Ndaku]

When the most extreme devout of the religion begin to take the teachings from their sacred writing too literally.

wouldn't that be most?

Well, yes, but I mean the extremists who take their faith very personal; extreme devout.

[The New Sea Territory]

When people believe it, read there holy books and actually accept it.

That is not radical, that is like saying "You played Nationstates once? You must be an internet addict!"

If you actually read the Bible and really accepted it, you'd be advocating the death of a large chunk of NSG. Irreligious, LGBT, those who work on the sabbath or eat shellfish, mix fabrics...

People who actually follow their religion are radicals. The amount one blows off their religious teaching is how much they actually fit in modern society. Barring religious pacifists, of course.

[The New Sea Territory]

It becomes radical when you can see or hear someone yell "allah akbar" really loud.

Or when they believe that reactionary attitudes are moral.

[Urran]

That is not radical, that is like saying "You played Nationstates once? You must be an internet addict!"

If you actually read the Bible and really accepted it, you'd be advocating the death of a large chunk of NSG. Irreligious, LGBT, those who work on the sabbath or eat shellfish, mix fabrics...

People who actually follow their religion are radicals. The amount one blows off their religious teaching is how much they actually fit in modern society. Barring religious pacifists, of course.

As far as I'm aware the New Testament said not to judge or do harm to another human being right?

[Sokolnicheskaya Line]

When people believe it, read there holy books and actually accept it.

Remember when Christian extremists chopped off people's heads? Neither do I.

[New Anglo-Saxonland]

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaannnnddd the religious-ness came in, the opposite of what the OP wanted happened.

[Merala]

When the holy text tells you to subdue and destroy other religions because they're infidels who must be destroyed, and when the followers of said religion in question attemp to impose it on everyone else in a violent view.

A similar religion to the one described exists, but rather focusing on extermanition of other religions and their followers, they focus on how to manipulate the followers of other religions into servants or something.

[Sokolnicheskaya Line]

When the holy text tells you to subdue and destroy other religions because they're infidels who must be destroyed, and when the followers of said religion in question attemp to impose it on everyone else in a violent view.

A similar religion to the one described exists, but rather focusing on extermanition of other religions and their followers, they focus on how to manipulate the followers of other religions into servants or something.

Which is what the Qu'ran says.

[Furry Alairia and Algeria]

When people are able to kill any such living being for it. And I have no intention to place them in a place of acceptance or tolerance, or at that, even recognition as someone who has "morals" when they're willing to kill a animal or a person when they proclaim their doing it for god, yet don't have the realization that their religion has no such obligation to catch them when they do something bad or kill, nor does god have such obligation to pick them up, take the blame, or do anything for the person who killed or did something bad.

[Eastfield Lodge]

It becomes radical when you can see or hear someone yell "allah akbar" really loud.

Given that that's part of the adhan (the call to prayer)...

[Nanatsu no Tsuki]

When people are able to kill any such living being for it. And I have no intention to place them in a place of acceptance or tolerance, or at that, even recognition as someone who has "morals" when they're willing to kill a animal or a person when they proclaim their doing it for god, yet don't have the realization that their religion has no such obligation to catch them when they do something bad or kill, nor does god have such obligation to pick them up, take the blame, or do anything for the person who killed or did something bad.

Nitpick! That would mean every religion has become radical, at some point in history, and now. I mean, at many points in history, some people have been able to kill anyone or anything for being it in the name of religion.

[Yumyumsuppertime]

The moment that one stops saying "I live this way", and begins saying "Others must live this way, or pay a penalty".

[Furry Alairia and Algeria]

When people are able to kill any such living being for it. And I have no intention to place them in a place of acceptance or tolerance, or at that, even recognition as someone who has "morals" when they're willing to kill a animal or a person when they proclaim their doing it for god, yet don't have the realization that their religion has no such obligation to catch them when they do something bad or kill, nor does god have such obligation to pick them up, take the blame, or do anything for the person who killed or did something bad.

Nitpick! That would mean every religion has become radical, at some point in history, and now. I mean, at many points in history, some people have been able to kill anyone or anything for being it in the name of religion.

And I wouldn't blame them. They lived in a time where acceptance, a sprinkle of peace, or when such morals were defined by their own views sometimes, rather than a book written by mortals and misinterpreted and corrupted by others, such as leaders of the churches, was almost non-existent. We were pretty bland and horrible back then.

[Sokolnicheskaya Line]

When people are able to kill any such living being for it. And I have no intention to place them in a place of acceptance or tolerance, or at that, even recognition as someone who has "morals" when they're willing to kill a animal or a person when they proclaim their doing it for god, yet don't have the realization that their religion has no such obligation to catch them when they do something bad or kill, nor does god have such obligation to pick them up, take the blame, or do anything for the person who killed or did something bad.

Nitpick! That would mean every religion has become radical, at some point in history, and now. I mean, at many points in history, some people have been able to kill anyone or anything for being it in the name of religion.

Just like atheism.

[Nanatsu no Tsuki]

Nitpick! That would mean every religion has become radical, at some point in history, and now. I mean, at many points in history, some people have been able to kill anyone or anything for being it in the name of religion.

And I wouldn't blame them. They lived in a time where acceptance, a sprinkle of peace, or when such morals were defined by their own views sometimes, rather than a book written by mortals and misinterpreted and corrupted by others, such as leaders of the churches, was almost non-existent. We were pretty bland and horrible back then.

Some still are.