In this essay I will argue that religion is not inherently violent, it is in the nature of the people to be violent. I will do this by showing, through various case studies such as the Caribbean and de la Casas and the troubles in Northern Ireland. I will also use the Holocaust as a case because even though it may not have been religiously motivated, it is still grounded in the context of religion. These will help to further my view that it is the people who are violent because I will show that there have always been other motivations for the violence behind these cases, such as furthering political power, money and the conquest of new lands.
The case of the Caribbean and de Las Casas
In 1504, Bartolome de Las Casas sailed to Cuba as a part …show more content…
After the First World War, Germany had lost and could not afford to pay back the reparations and were almost at the point of collapsing under the large amounts , however, into the 1920’s Germany began to grow economically due to loans from America, leading to the ‘Golden Age of Weimar’ . In 1929, Wall Street crashed, sending the German economy on a downspin, with a result of “very high unemployment and severe poverty” . Due to the loss of World War I, people were embarrassed and looking for anyone to blame- this led to them perpetuating the historic persecution of those who are Jewish. The Nazi’s took control of this situation and began to ‘rebuild’ Germany- through the persecution of Jewish people. Hitler, now the leader of the Third Reich, (after passing an ‘emergency’ law permitting them to push forward any law they would like to further their political ambitions ) passed two laws to prevent people from marrying Jewish people and denying them citizenship for the ‘protection’ of the German people . This then escalated to what is now known as the Holocaust- a large scale genocide event, where disabled people, gypsies, homosexuals and Jewish were held in concentration camps and were either gassed or worked to death, however, Jewish people were the people who were targeted most
The case of the Caribbean and de Las Casas
In 1504, Bartolome de Las Casas sailed to Cuba as a part …show more content…
After the First World War, Germany had lost and could not afford to pay back the reparations and were almost at the point of collapsing under the large amounts , however, into the 1920’s Germany began to grow economically due to loans from America, leading to the ‘Golden Age of Weimar’ . In 1929, Wall Street crashed, sending the German economy on a downspin, with a result of “very high unemployment and severe poverty” . Due to the loss of World War I, people were embarrassed and looking for anyone to blame- this led to them perpetuating the historic persecution of those who are Jewish. The Nazi’s took control of this situation and began to ‘rebuild’ Germany- through the persecution of Jewish people. Hitler, now the leader of the Third Reich, (after passing an ‘emergency’ law permitting them to push forward any law they would like to further their political ambitions ) passed two laws to prevent people from marrying Jewish people and denying them citizenship for the ‘protection’ of the German people . This then escalated to what is now known as the Holocaust- a large scale genocide event, where disabled people, gypsies, homosexuals and Jewish were held in concentration camps and were either gassed or worked to death, however, Jewish people were the people who were targeted most