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People often use religion to justify cruelty by weaponizing faith to validate hatred, control, or abuse, allowing individuals to feel morally superior while inflicting harm. According to psychological and sociological perspectives, this occurs when believers pervert religious teachings to excuse bigotry, domestic violence, or political oppression, viewing their actions as serving a greater divine good or protecting eternal souls.
Key mechanisms behind this behavior include:
Moral Licensing and Justification: Believers may commit harmful acts, such as conversion therapy or exclusion, believing they are saving others from eternal damnation, thereby removing personal guilt.
Authoritarianism and Ignorance: Religious structures can encourage followers to discard evidence-based reasoning in favor of authority, leading otherwise “good” people to perpetuate lies, bigotry, or violence under the guise of duty.
Fear and Control: Leaders may use threats of hell or divine wrath to manipulate followers, creating a culture where cruelty is framed as a necessary tool for maintaining order or purity.
Tribalism and Us-vs-Them Dynamics: Religion can foster an addictive cycle of righteous anger toward outsiders, providing a guilt-free excuse to indulge in hate against those perceived as sinful or non-believing.
Compartmentalization: Individuals may separate their religious identity from their daily empathy, using faith as a convenient tool for power or status rather than a consistent moral compass, leading to hypocrisy and cruelty toward neighbors or family members.Hmm … wondering why the mods let this through. This seems to be a criticism of Frumkeit, spouting a number of Hashkafos that range from problematic to outright anti-Torah.
Mabe I am missing something, as the subject line is giibberish to me.the ramchal famously said in a prayer:
פָּתַח בִצְלוֹתָא וְאָמַר, רִבּוֹן עָלְמִין, אַנְתְּ אִיהוּ פְּנִימָאָה דְּכָל פְּנִימָאִין, וּבְרָאָה דְּכָל בְּרָאִין, דְּאַנְתְּ מִלְּגַו וּמִלְּבַר וְלֵית אֲתַר בְּעָלְמָא בַּר מִינָךְ.
god! you are the internal of all internal things and the external of all external things, you are internal and external and thare is nothing besides you.
the ramchal famously said in a prayer:
פָּתַח בִצְלוֹתָא וְאָמַר, רִבּוֹן עָלְמִין, אַנְתְּ אִיהוּ פְּנִימָאָה דְּכָל פְּנִימָאִין, וּבְרָאָה דְּכָל בְּרָאִין, דְּאַנְתְּ מִלְּגַו וּמִלְּבַר וְלֵית אֲתַר בְּעָלְמָא בַּר מִינָךְ.
god! you are the internal of all internal things and the external of all external things, you are internal and external and thare is nothing besides you.
To mobico
It’s far worse than a criticism of frumkeit. The fellow who started this thread is a maniac who now calls himself Nevuah, but he showed up at YWN about three months ago with the handle rescue. It makes no difference. He keeps posting the same Kefirah, such as only brainless sheeple(that’s his favorite word) follow the Torah blindly, but G-d wants us to use our free will and only follow those laws that are based on common sense. He’s a kofer in Hashem and in the Torah and obviously the Gemara etc. He’s announced that he alone knows which laws of the Torah people should keep. He’s totally insane. He used my name in this post, because I was the first one to call him out and I’ve been doing so consistently. You’re right to ask why the moderators allow him to spew his trash, but it’s our job to drive him out by calling him what he is a Sonei Hashem.
Qwerty,
Maybe if he is ignored he’ll just go away, please don’t answer it’ll just fuel a cycle between you and him
I think this double-dipping poster is using language unusual for us, but he is looking at reasonable issues.
It is reasonable to consider “religiosity” and where it is done right or wrong way. As R Berel Wein writes – world is better of when Jews are religious, and non-Jews are not and worse of when it is other way around. Meaning when non-jews are “religious”, they destroy things in the name of their religion, and non-religious Jews “leave no place for other nations” (Beitzah 25b). Similarly, we have a notion that after BM1, both nevuah and avoda zorah left – these ideas are connected.
So, we should definitely continue checking ourselves, as baalei mussar suggest, that we are doing it the right way. As the story of students of R Akiva indicates, it is possible to do it the wrong way .. and so do many CR posts.
> quewrty
a side note – there is no easier name that qwerty. You just move your paw to the right. How can one be misspelling that.
To ?? coffee addict
I do ignore most of his comments. I’ll try to heed your advice and ignore him completely. Unlike most posters, I accept Mussar if it’s appropriate.
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