Destructive Religion: Inciting Terror And Violence

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In addition, destructive religion is another issue that relate to our topic. Destructive brings the meanings of negative, harmful, damaging, and etc. (Roux, 2013) Religion is considered as destructive when inciting terror and violence, a damaging action of force. (Hanford, 2007) The criteria of destructive religious organizations include refusal of common social values and priorities, re-orientation of consciousness and self-consciousness by switching from the standpoint of life-affirmation and creation to the position of isolation, destruction and self-destruction. (Ivanovna Bonkalo, Igorevna Rybakova, Tarasovna Kolesnik, Stanislavovna Shcheglova, & Vasilevich Bonkalo, 2016) Louw (2008) stated that there is a relationship between unhealthy

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