Why do questions about religion or politics create so much 'hatred'?

... Fear. ... Fear of loss.(I wanted this answer to just be the word "Fear" because that's what it really boils down to. But Hub kept saying my answer was too short ... so here is lengthy explanation of why my answer is simply "Fear."

Am I wrong? Is it deeper? My money is on Fear Which is pretty deep.).

The reason would be because a individual person's ability to be themselves and their own arrogant stance of they know right from wrong, or belief of one's own ability to determine what is real and what is fake. This inability to distinguish the when one is wrong, even tho they may think themselves right. Their own arrogance gets in their way to form rational thoughts.As for the voting.....people vote toward their belief without using rationale.

Yes, I've seen some of the voting for some of the question I pose and if the question or answer is related to "politics" or "religion", those people believe what they believe and assume that their belief is right. Most refuse to see any other rationale that does not conform to their own belief, so they irrationally vote against those who don't think like they do.

If you want to argue bring up politics or religion, otherwise don’t. You are not going to change someone’s politics or religion with a conversation. Religion is faith based.

Religion comes from within. That is not going to change with a few words. Politics should be more rational.It is not.

The two major parties run slick ad campaigns that are designed to divide us on issues that have nothing to do with their performance. They want your vote not your attention. If we as voters would look at what the individual Congressmen and Senators did in office, we would not re-elect over 90% of them every election cycle.

Both parties have good ideas, but the ideas are not discussed to any extent. Not during the elections and not during congressional sessions.It is more important to keep us divided for our votes than to solve the problems. Their goal is to get re-elected and fixing the Nation’s problems does not always serve that goal.

Just a few examples of issues that get lip service, water, power grid, oil, roads and bridges, wasteful spending, education, and many more. What do you hear about during an election cycle, gay rights, abortion, how many houses do you own, birth certificates, someone’s gay daughter, someone’s pregnant daughter and a bunch of other divisive chatter. They win their election; we lose our voice.

It is very frustrating but I doubt that it will change.

Because people tend to equate both of these with "who they are. " People tend to define themselves by these simple things for some reason, and are egotistical enough to believe that their way is the only way.

Because religion and politics are both about institutes concerned with social organisation and control. They both make use of our deep desire to search and find the truth about ourselves and the universe. Through a process of conditioning we are given all kinds of ideas and concepts about this or that being "the truth".

And the reason we accept these finds it source in our need for security. Because we our not aware of the truth which lies behind our existance. Once we have accepted all these concepts and ideas about ourselves and the reality we live in, we identify ourselves with them.

Once we identified ourselves with them, we feel the need to protect them, because we think we have to defend ourselves. Every insult, doubt or questioning about everything we have ourselves identified with, is wrongly seen and interpreted as an attack from the "outside". This is a reaction out of fear and out of ignorance about our real nature, being ourselves expressions of the Devine truth.

Religiosity is a personal issue, which arises from our awe and astonisment of our own existance, which we witness through our conscious. Therefore, religiosity, is something which has to and can only be lived as a lively experience and expression of life itself. And life in all its potential, can hardly be enchained or bound in a set of social rules to live by.

Live according to that which feels to you as being good. Simply look into your heart to feel it. Free yourself of all what they told you, whatever it was, or might be, so that you finally can start living life the way it was meant.

The two topics you should never discuss just for that reason . The two subjects go to the core of who we are and we protect our fundamental belief system.

The answer is simple. We can't allow others to be different from ourselves without judging them by our standards. People for some reason always believe their way is the best, therefore all others must be wrong.

Much of what I believed in my youth I am now questioning. This doesn't make me a bad person or wrong for it. I am entitled to my own opinion just the same as everyone else.

In religion I would blame it on ignorance. No man knows the truth of God yet every race and culture profess to be in his favor and offer self sacrifice in the form of blind faith. In most cases this blind faith is defended to the death and is believed to be rewarded by the sadistic object of ones affection.

Thus the ignorance. In politics I would blame it on intolerance. Everyone develops or is indoctrinated with ideological views that polarize them into groups based on issued relating to religion, race, culture and others.

Every group believes that their views are correct and are reluctant to compromise for the good of the society in which they live.

Some people find that subject offensive. If somebody says "there's only one true religion", other people think that they must be narrow-minded, even arrogant. Surely, there's some good in all religions or at least most of them.

Emotions. Emotions get in the way of rational thought at times. Religion is emotion and feelings.

These are the things that are tied to faith. This will stimulate a lot of things in different people and those are displayed with answers to questions about religion. Politics are feelings people have about their beliefs and sometimes their morals.

Again we are touching on the same deep feelings that people find within themselves and they express these in different ways.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.