Religion and Violence || Acharya Prashant
Full video: Religious fanatics and bigots - Where do they come from? || Acharya Prashant, at IIT-Delhi (2023)
Transcript
00:00That more people have died in the name of religion than due to any other cause.
00:06Think of the crusades, the long wars between the Muslims and the Christians.
00:10If you study history, you will know how bloody they were.
00:13More recently look at 1971, because the Pakistani army when it got violent, it killed both Bengali
00:20Muslims and Bengali Hindus, but mostly and the murders and the rapes were just countless
00:26and all that in the name of religion.
00:28And it's not as if the so-called peaceful religions have not indulged in violence.
00:34Look at Burma, even the long struggle that you had in Sri Lanka was religious in some
00:40sense.
00:41Hindus versus Buddhists, ignorance is so powerful and its appetite is so huge, it can consume
00:49even religion when the central purpose of religion is to defeat ignorance.