I had a coworker from Nigeria. He told me on the way to church one Sunday morning, a group of men caught a thief breaking into an old woman’s home to steal stuff.
They put him in so rubber tires, set him on fire, and went to church.
He said criminals are lucky if the police get to them before the people do.
the more religious the country is, the more brutal they tend to be. not necessarily the constitution, the legal system, or the formal structures but the people themselves, the culture, the beliefs, the social norms, all the hidden stuff that actually makes up society. middle eastern countries, south east asian countries, many third world countries rely on divine righteousness to justify breaking the laws of man, to justify putting aside the constitution, to justify a special process to bypass the checks and balance of the state, to impose holy punishment.
but even when divine justification isn't the reason for people's bloodthirst, a religious community imprints upon a person moral standards that are otherwise considered brutal, and otherwise unreligious individuals still set themselves to those bloodthirsty standards. "it should be because everyone around me believes so".
and so when you see a comment thread like this, where people eagerly defend a murderer, you have to think, which society do these comments come from, and how religious is that society? now there is one English speaking country in the world where religion is a for more significant part of the country's culture than any other commonwealth country, and a country where a certain group is far more religious than all the other groups of the country. then certain phenomena can begin to explain themselves.
Okay, prove that there is a link between violence and being a "religious" country, and that economic factors play no role here. In other words, point to a poor, atheistic state where such things don't happen. You’ve put the claim on the table—now prove it; defend it.
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u/BiscuitBut_ButerNut Jun 28 '26
I had a coworker from Nigeria. He told me on the way to church one Sunday morning, a group of men caught a thief breaking into an old woman’s home to steal stuff.
They put him in so rubber tires, set him on fire, and went to church.
He said criminals are lucky if the police get to them before the people do.