On Some Instances of Violence or Killing and Their Justification in Christianity and Japanese Buddhism

The main topic we attempt to discuss here is some instances of justification of violence in the history of Christianity and Buddhism. We focus only on the most representative and common explanations that were employed as justification for acting against and, in fact, negating some of the central concepts of the very teaching of the respective religions.The only thing we aim at is presenting some mechanisms and possible explanations of actions and their justifications related to contradictions in religious ethical systems. Human conditions allow for denying or accepting judgments in spite and against any reasonable proof and reasoning, thus showing clear conclusions will not present any additional values to the argument.adam@ozog.jpDoshisha University, Kyoto, Japa