What Makes People React So Vehemently In Matters Of Religion?

[goodlife]

(1 John 4:20, 21)

[Peter Pedant]

I quite like 1 John 4 18
"There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love."

which kinda isnt a vehement reaction

and I vote BA to scorpiojo - I have the habit of looking up GoodLife's "quotes" because I have realised they AREN'T cut and pasted - if only they were !

and god knows why
" .....he who loveth God love his brother also." is unclear to one poster (AH)
I wonder how he (AH) did with Shakepeare at school ( "Miss, why din he write in modern English yeah ? ")

one of st john the divines teachings/principles ( erm he wrote 1 John 4 ) was "little children love one another" - this also comes out in 1 John 3 18

GoddLife's main theme is the forewarning of the end of the world
which I dont think John's letters really bear out
but as ever in these things ... interpretation is all

[Hypognosis]

@goodlife

People's brains are, supposedly*, "wired" to believe in something… anything, even. It doesn't seem to matter what it is, in detail but it gives them a detectable "buzz", which stimulates the pleasure centres in the brain. They "get off" on the endorphines released, in response to this stimulus.

I could have answered, cynically, that anyone would react vehemently, to an attempt to take their "security blanket" away but it is, evidently, worse than that, it is like having their favourite drug taken away, if their belief system is undermined, by something a heretic says, for instance.

For some reason, the powers of god(s) does not extend to killing heretics remotely and they generally require humans to assist them. Strange, that.

* The title of the research and its authors are not known to me at this time. I do not know if their research was motivated by, or influenced by, either atheism or religious fervour. It was featured in a BBC Horizon episode, some time in the last 25-30 years, minimum of 10 years ago).

[agchristie]

It is a battle of wills whereby neither viewpoint is prepared to give any ground.A veritable tug of war that rouses strong emotions.

Vehemence knows no compromise and religion is such a topic that the believers should be allowed to believe and non-believers be permitted to challenge fairly in debate.Inevitably,the situation often degenerates when some believers try to promote their beliefs overpoweringly.Some believers,in fairness,allow their frustrations to boil over and stray into offensive territory.

[TWR]

You still preaching Goodlife, have you not got a job.

[agchristie]

I would add that the term 'vehemently' could just as well be substituted for 'venomously'.

[Khandro]

birdie; //The totalitarian nature of it. That's what gets my goat.
It says, thou shall do this, this and this, but thou shall not do that, that and that.//

Not all religions do that, in fact very few. In what is called 'Christianity' the commandments come from the Old Testament, well before Christ. The Buddha said “Just as a goldsmith assays gold by rubbing, cutting and burning, so should you examine my words. Do not accept them just out of faith in me.”
And Lao Tzu said of the Tao, .............. Ahhh!