What doctrinal or practical accommodations did Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism make with the exercise of violent force by its believers?
What will be an ideal response?
1. Islam
a. Chapter Nine of the Quran seems to legitimate violence against "polytheists" and "idolaters."
b. Arabic word jihad
1. the inner struggle against evil that Muslims must wage for themselves
2. denotes real war, fought against the enemies of Islam
3. used to proclaim successful wars of aggression against Arabian states and the Byzantine and Sasanid empires
4. an enterprise sanctified by obedience to what are thought to be the Prophet's commands and rewarded by the promise of martyrdom
2. Christianity
a. Christian conquerors also abused religion to justify war and impose new forms of worship along with the terms of peace
b. seemed consistent with the nature of the Lord of Hosts, as the Bible frequently referred to God, to spread Christianity by war
3. Buddhism
a. Buddhist rulers practiced remarkable intellectual contortions to justify the imposition by violence of a doctrine of peace and love
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