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The main topic we attempt to discuss here is by no means no simple nor quite suitable to be considered in such a short article, but since our aim is not in showing all instances of justification of violence in the whole history of Christianity and Buddhism we feel that we may carry out our task with reasonable success. We will 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. We are aware that a Westerner writing about religion and violence is in a way biased by the recent trends of political correctness of regarding one religion as violent and easily absolving other that used or keep using violence in similar or even more extensive way. As a society we also like to think that violence for us is a thing of the past and that ours is the history of development of morality that deems violence unnecessary and unwelcomed. But, as John Docker states at the very beginning of his book on origins of violence it is more likely that: “The history of humanity is the history of violence: war and genocide; conquest and colonization and the creation of empires sanctioned by God or the gods in both polytheism and monotheism; the fatal combination of democracy and empire; and

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