{"id":24929,"date":"2011-03-07T01:46:46","date_gmt":"2011-03-07T01:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/abc_rel-_and_ethics_jonathan_lusthaus_monotheism_and_violence\/"},"modified":"2011-03-07T01:46:46","modified_gmt":"2011-03-07T01:46:46","slug":"abc_rel-_and_ethics_jonathan_lusthaus_monotheism_and_violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24929","title":{"rendered":"(ABC Rel. and Ethics) Jonathan Lusthaus: Monotheism and Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a more nuanced way, a number of influential scholars, such as Rodney Stark and Regina Schwartz, have also cast monotheism as particularly intolerant towards the &#8220;Other&#8221; and thus a fertile ground for violence.<\/p>\n<p>But I would like to ask whether there actually is an intrinsic link between monotheism and violence? Is such violence virtually inevitable?<\/p>\n<p>There are a number of points that can be made in response to this question. The first is why is there such a preoccupation with religious and Monotheistic forms of violence, often to the point of dismissing secular violence? Why are violent secular causes often let off the hook?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/religion\/articles\/2011\/03\/05\/3155958.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a more nuanced way, a number of influential scholars, such as Rodney Stark and Regina Schwartz, have also cast monotheism as particularly intolerant towards the &#8220;Other&#8221; and thus a fertile ground for violence. But I would like to ask<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24929\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,42,426,429,154,155,108,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-islam","category-judaism","category-other-churches","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}