Which came first: murdering sociopaths or religious violence?

Does religion create murdering socio-paths?
OR......
Are murdering socio-paths drawn to religion, which they use to justify their murders?

[the title is not the main question]

Religion creates them. 11
Murderers are draw to religion. 21
Neither. 16
I'm not sure. 4
I have another explanation - comment. 9
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Comments ( 9 )
  • KnightNigelWellingtonXXI

    This post has 3 different questions.

    1. Murdering sociopaths.
    2. Yes. Religion creates some murdering sociopaths.
    3. Yes. Some murdering sociopaths are drawn to religion to justify their actions.

    Signed,
    Knight Nigel Wellington XXI

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    • RomeoDeMontague

      This right here? I was trying to figure out how to answer your question but I think it would have sounded strange.

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  • Lynxikat

    I would say that sociopaths are drawn to religion, because then they have something to justify their actions.

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    • callalilly

      yeah and they can blame there god or goddess 4 what they did

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  • 10001

    Religion has nothing to do with it, greedy gits have been using any excuse to bash in their neighbours heads and take their stuff / out of anger, since the stone age. That was way before any large scale religion was formed.

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  • baronroderick

    Though many ignorant Christians talk about Hitler being an "atheist", he in fact was a proud Christian and friend of Vatican; his writings are full with praise of Catholic Church and the bloody side of Christian religion. Psychopathy is a genetic disorder, but the blood-thirsty and barbaric logic of religion (the extermination of the Cannanites is one of the first documented genocides) offers a convenient system to organize the psychopath's thinking. Even the Tv Show Dexter shows that. Furthermore a person who isn't born sociopath but is weak-minded can gratify the blackest deeps of his psyche with religious logic of intolerance, hate and prejudice, and get a kind of social and moral sanction to his hate.

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  • pinkbug

    SOMETIMES sociopaths use religion to justify their actions. Some do not but r still sociopaths all the same.

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  • thisisfrustrating!!!

    i don't think anything could truly create a socio-path.If my parents obsessively told me not to lie i am sure i would not have ended up as a compulsive liar

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  • anti-hero

    This should answer your question...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55h1FO8V_3w

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