AGAMA (SEOLAH) TANPA PENGANUT

Anomali Moralitas dalam Kekerasan Atas Nama Agama

Abstract

Speaking honestly, in recent times violence in the name of religion is seen as being obligatory. The source of the problem is a shallowness of understanding. When violence occurs, even though in the name of religion, moral stability is thrown into confusion, and can become very fragile. Because, where there is violence, good can appear bad, and vice versa. There is a grave risk that an anomaly of this morality is the formation of a way of thinking and the creation of an attitude that strange and foolish in a social group: others are labelled as pagan, the burning of houses of whorship is exemplified, and the followers of another religion are killed or terrorised. This is said to be in accord with local wisdom. Public worship of other religion is disrupted and even as being a holy act.

Those who have closed minds, who are fanatical anda radical, regarding their own religion as being superior to all others, will be also closed to different ways of thinking. Ideally, religious people should be able to develop a religious attitude which in sincere, which is able to see differences in belief as the most important basis for dialogue and cooperation.

How can violence in the name of religion be minimalised or eliminated? This is a niggling question of our time. The most appropriate answer is the formation of a character or a new and authentic way of living-out one’s religious beliefs in the heart each follower. There are at least two forms of religion which are proposed here, a “religion of becoming” and a “ religion of maturity”