More and more examples of religious intolerance are being experienced today....
The Taliban regime.... the Ayodhya Issue....Father Graham Staines murder....
Of late... the Ram setu Issue... The Akali v/s Dera Saccha Sauda issue... the beating up of two Christian missonaries in Kolhapur for illegitimate conversions... The MF Hussain paintings of Hindu gods n goddesses.. the Saurashtra Art college paintings issue...the list goes on...

Who is responsible? how can reasonable, educated people be instigated to draw blood for trivial reasons? Can art take liberties to hurt other people's religious sentiments? Should people be cheated into religious conversions? Or, Are we becoming "Over-religious"?

Gimme ur replies.... my world is burning..some one save it... QUICK!
P.S. Dont just blame the politicians as usual[color="#FF0000"][/color]

I think "we" the people are responsible. No one is following their religions as they should be. Every Religion has same basic idea to respect other religions. What we are doing is..we are taking religion in a gang kind of way..people want to force others into their religions..people want their religion to be most respected..our selfish souls are a disgrace to those who laid down the religious guidelines..I am kinda Iffy when it comes to religion so won't go into much of a detail here.

i am agree with KP a bit. that its we.. who is responsible for every thing... people are stupid.. but main responsible person is the one who takes tis platform to collect the voter bank... i.e. politician... they have the command over there tongue... they sparks the petrol in human... and they are done...

so i think... its 75% politician and 25%we as a human are responcible for this...

Yeah its we and its the politicians but it also a large number of modern day religious leaders who want a bigger followership, bigger donations for a five star life style and yes, some fanatics who thrive on the feeling of hatred. KP has a point here, religion was meant to bring people together, but, we are using it to divide people most of the time. I think the ratio should be 40% religious leaders, 20% politicians and 40% WE the people who fall prey to such dubious schemes.

lolz..SP u did exactly what u were not supposed to do..and i dunno why blame politicians..they have their selfish motives..ppl who cant understand what they trying to do and end up joining them in those senseless motives are dumb and are responsible..not the politicians.

dear... thts what my point is....

they all r selfish... we chose them to do something better... but they ended up in controversies and that i why i said.. its 75% politician...

PPl know that they have their selfish motives and still we fall into their traps...hmm who is the culprit?? Smart ppl with selfish motives or dumb ppl who are aware of all but still stick to ignorance??

t think its just time pass for some people who wanna have their own selfish ideas that need to eb fulfilled thru these

Sadly it's us, people, but it is fuelled mostly by leaders both political and religious - but the main reason maybe
not only to achieve five star life but the greed for power - simply to rule others, playing god

You look at the ayahtollahs screaming Jihad, Christians promoting the genocide of homosexuals, atheists that ryle up theists see the reaction and get a hard on, these are by and large individual acts rather than the blame being placed on the belief. If people want to try and place blame on, say, religion, would the mass murder people like Stalin are responsible for be caused by their atheist nonbeliefs? To blame something other than the person responsible is to remove the accountability that person has in what they did.

I think religion brings morals and values that are needed in society...and many of this morals are universal in all religions...

However, I think sometimes religion divides people...b/w different ethnic groups and even within an ethnic group..religion also acts a part of someones identity...sometimes I think religion divides people instead of bring people together, why can't there be peaceful co-exisistence...?
In the end, we cannot blame religion, its the individuals who are to blame for evil...

religion...is it the root of all violence???---->no it is not...
but religion can be used by PEOPLE to facilitate violence....
In the end INDIVIDUALS are twisting and using religion as a tool for violence/evil....
Like anything else, people can use ideology to faciliate violence communism vs capitalism...

In my opinion,
Firstly, humans have created/depicted God in many unique ways...I also think that SOME of these depictions in any religion including my own cannot capture the veracity of God..in my opinion it is important to be cognizant that no one knows the ultimate truth that is out there: no religion, person, religion/culture, is supreme in depicting God...but More important are own individual, constructs of God and our own personal relation to God..through soul searching and spirtual exploration I think people would be more content with the way they live their lives and choices they make..

However, our religions of the world, do have teachings, scriptures, and morals that we may relate to, which we shouldn't ignore (which is all a part of the spirtual exploration process)...while emphasizing critical examination of our inner selves and religion(s). I think Blindly following scriptures that a human wrote millions of years ago is dangerous, God who has given us so much life, has also given us a brain, autonomy, and reasoning/rationalism ability for a reason, so that we can search for ourselves (what is right or wrong or a way to live a life and so forth). People who do not ask questions, people who do not search for a deeper underlying truth, people who do not critically examine, may have missed the boat.. who knows, I could be wrong, and people who follow scriptures by the book, or who do not question or contemplate may be right?

It is clear, its hard to ascertain of what is Truth about God or any part of life?? but again with critical introspection, searching, and understanding, of ourselves and EACH OTHER we can obtain a degree of Truth that is content for each of us...