HUMAN FORMATION , RELIGION , AND VIOLENCE: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF AN UNHOLY ALLIANCE .
As our world continues to evolve and grow, we recognize a spike and an upward curve of violence across the world. Within the complexities of our common humanity which has made remarkable advancement in scientific and technological developments we find an intricate and hydra headed space of unbridled capacity for carnage, terror and violence. In this essay, I seek to explore the idea of human formation, which ought to lead to wholesomeness and the creation of good citizens. I place the ideal especially against the idea of ‘religion’ and religious violence, which has become volatile and prevalent in various regions of our world. In this paper, I simply lay out a format, which challenges assumptions, and hopefully provokes further reflections and seeks to question the contradiction of religion(s) and why they breed violence. In addition, I will explore the ontological assumptions about human formation and the intersections of the nature of this unholy alliance.
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