History Main / ScaryAmoralReligion

* The Children of Atom and the Apostles of the Holy Light from {{Fallout 3}}, both of which have an unhealthy relationship with radiation. But they mean well.

* In ''Warhammer40000'', the Cult of the God-Emperor is what inspires the SpaceMarines to fight. in the name of the immortal God-Emperor. The Cult is xenocidal and imperialist, as happy to wipe out billions of its own people as it is to exterminate entire alien races.

* [[Halo The Covenant]] are out to KillAllHumans because mere existence is heresy [[spoiler: It later turns out that the leaders found out that humans are the real heirs of the gods and don't want to loss power]]

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* Radical Islam. These guys can go on for days explaining why mass murder is completely justifiable because (of course) they're the real victims.
** Radical Christianity likewise, as they can go on for days explaining how torture and murder are perfectly justified if it causes a conversion and "saves the soul" of the victim (generally at the cost of the body), or how, worse, if the person refuses to be "saved," anything can be justifiably done to them.
** Radical Judaism can go on for days explaining how peace is wrong and its right to assassinate a prime minister seeking peace[[hottip:*:Yitzhak Rabin, if you must know]], and how destruction of the property of those who don't keep the Sabbath the same way they do is justified.
** Radical ''anything'' can get like this, really.
** This is why when the Baha'i Faith was first created, Bahaulla felt the need to include a tenet that explicitly told his followers "Don't go overboard with this whole religion thing, It is counter-productive."
* The Aztecs practiced human sacrifice on a massive scale because they were afraid that if they didn't, the sun would go away and stop letting the corn grow. So, in a way, they were murdering for the Greater Good.
* TheSpanishInquisition was a pretty nasty chapter of European history. It's debatable whether they felt that what they did was the right thing to do, or whether the goal justified the means, but they certainly were some scary dudes.
** The Spanish Inquisition were better than their reputation, though they did torture and kill people - they were actually ''inquisitive'', aiming to actually find out evidence of heresy before digging out the thumbscrews and the tinder. It was the stuff happening around them that was more worrying. Plenty of people were oppressed and killed for their beliefs without any interference from the Inquisition, and the Protestants were being just as bad, if not worse, in their own side.
** Since when the Spanish Inquisition was a religion in it's own right? Anyway since it was the King\Queen of Spain the one who contrrolled the Inquisition instead of the Pope (as in the other Roman Catholic Inquisitions), and since they played far more the "racial" card (with that Old Christian\New Christian families) than the purely religious one (granted in Spain at the beginning both were likely the same) they were more a Political than a Religious force. The ** **Protestant witch hunt trials weren't better, while they did not involve torture as the Inquisition trials did, they burned at the stake far more people than the inquisition did in less time, and included children wereas the inquisition victims were all adults (if the oficial processed lists are to be believed though)
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* Hidan's Jashin-sama from ''{{Naruto}}'', where killing is a religious decree and mercy is heresy.
** Thats the ReligionOfEvil, if for no other reason than Jashin means something like [[GodOfEvil "evil god"]].

See also MoralMyopia and BlueAndOrangeMorality. Compare ReligionOfEvil.

* Not entirely unjustified in that the 40K universe is full of

** This is why when the Baha'i Faith was first created, Bahaulla felt the need to include a tenant that explicitly told his followers "Don't go overboard with this whole religion thing, It is counter-productive."

** Radical Judaism can go on for days explaining how peace is wrong and its right to assassinate a prime minister seeking peace[[hottip:Yitzhak Rabin, if you must know]], and how destruction of the property of those who don't keep the Sabbath the same way they do is justified.

** Radical Christianity likewise, as they can go on for days explaining how torture and murder are perfectly justified if it causes a conversion and "saves the soul" of the victim (generally at the cost of the body), or how, worse, if the person refuses to be "saved", anything can be justifiably done to them.
** Radical Judaism can go on for days explaining how peace is wrong and its right to assasinate a prime minister seeking peace[[hottip: Yizchak Rabin, if you must know]], and how destruction of the property of those who don't keep the Sabath the same way they do is justified
** radical ''anything'' can get like this, really.

* The Eternal Doctrine and the Path of Now and Forever from ''StarControl'', both of which treat Ur-Quan security as paramount. The Path of Now and Forever decrees that everything that threatens the Ur-Quan (which is to say, every single species, just in case they'd someday become too powerful if left undestroyed) must be enslaved or annihilated. The Eternal Doctrine is similar, except it leaves out the possibility of enslavement. It's all good, though—since they believe in reincarnation, species they "cleanse" will have a chance to be reborn as Ur-Quan eventually.

* The Aztecs practiced human sacrifice on a massive scale because they were afraid that if they didn't, the sun would go away and stop letting the corn grow. So, in away, they were murdering for the Greater Good.

Sometimes, in fact, morality plays absolutely no role at all in their ideology. The followers of the religion don't claim to have transcended the silly dichotomy between good and evil, nor do they think of themselves as [[TrueNeutral impartial mediators]] between warring factions. Rather, the concepts of good and evil just don’t occur to them. If you asked them [[CharacterAlignment what they think of the whole good/evil thing]], they'd look at incredulously, as if you just asked them [[TalkativeLoon where their religion stands on the issue of albino octopi named Jerry]].

** Radical Christianity likewise, as they can go on for days explaining how torture and murder are perfectly justified if it causes a conversion and "saves the soul" of the victim (generally at the cost of the body).
** radical Judaism can go on for days explaining how peace is wrong and its right to assasinate a prime minister seeking peace[[hottip: Yizchak Rabin, if you must know]]

** That said, the body toll in its 100 years of existance was around 1000 - killing an average of ten people per year and meaning they're essentially far less deadly than the flu.
*** Apparently, torture doesn't count. I'm sure everyone who spent time in the dungeons will be relieved to hear that.
*** The Spanish Inquisition were better than their reputation, though they did torture and kill people - they were actually ''inquisitive'', aiming to actually find out evidence of heresy before digging out the thumbscrews and the tinder. It was the stuff happening around them that was more worrying. Plenty of people were oppressed and killed for their beliefs without any interference from the Inquisition, and the Protestants were being just as bad, if not worse, in their own side.

* In ''BabylonFive'', the Minbari war against humanity was seen as religious crusade to avenge their "holy leader" after his death in a botched FirstContact encounter.

*** Apparently, torture doesn't count. I'm sure everyone who spent time in the dungeons will be relieved to hear that.

* The Eternal Doctrine and the Path of Now and Forever from ''StarControl'', both of which treat Ur-Quan security as paramount. The Path of Now and Forever decrees that everything that threatens the Ur-Quan (which is to say, every single species, just in case they'd someday become too powerful if left undestroyed) must be enslaved or annihilated. The Eternal Doctrine is similar, except it leaves out the possibility of enslavement. It's all good, though—since they believe in reincarnation, species they "cleanse" will have a chance to be reborn as Ur-Quan eventually.