RELIGIOUS VIOLENCE – Chapter 8 | The Pure Religion: Religion’s violence has been a plague upon humanity for centuries, exercised around the world, always present, periodically very extreme. It is a problem because religion is being used by those forces, those groups and those nations seeking power and domination, using religion as a justification, as a cause, as a purpose. But this cannot be, you see, for God initiated all the world’s religions because God knows that not everyone can follow one teaching or one teacher.