Religion, Morality, and Violence

TheViolenceand philosophy mainPhilosophyand violence problemViolenceand morality IMoralityand violence wantViolenceand religion toReligionsand violence address here is related to a kind of prosaicFaithand its pervertibility paradoxPervertibility of faith, whichMoral mediatorsreligions as everybodyReligionsas moral carriers knowsReligionsas moral mediators: onPunishment oneSacrificeand scapegoating sideScapegoatingand sacrifice religions are a way of explaining the genesis of violence – for example in terms of spiritual evasion, like in the case of KierkegaardKierkegaard, S.’s vision – and a way of escaping it but, at the same time, insofar as religions are carriers of moral views (and take part in their “secular” construction) they constitute a great part of those collective axiologies I illustrated in chapter four, which are possible triggers of punishment. Moral axiological systems are inclined to be the condition of possibility of conflicts that can lead to violent outcomes.