The influence of eschatological prophesies in the violence of religious fundamentalisms

Abstract

eschatological texts and prophesies have a significant effect on the formation of attitudes, perspectives and ideologies of the fundamental trends in all religions, and participating in its violence for many reasons, such as: the literally reading of the holy texts, fundamentalists faith that they are the persons whom should take those prophesies on their own responsibilities, the high level of religious tensions of eschatological prophesies and definite belief that these prophesies are uncountable as it should fulfill without any attention to its historical and contextual particularity.