Explaining Religious Violence

Kenneth Leong
6 min readDec 31, 2019
Photo by Melanie Wasser on Unsplash

Our new millennium got off a violent and rocky start through the 9–11 World Trade Center incident. By now, we are all familiar with religion-based terrorism and violence. In January 2018, US News magazine published an interesting article titled Religion Needs a Savior. The article informed us that based on a recent international survey conducted by US News which interviewed more than 21,000 people all over the world, the majority of…

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Kenneth Leong

Author, Zen teacher, scientific mystic, professor, photographer, philosopher, social commentator, socially engaged human