Is Jainism the most peaceful religion in history?

Is Jainism the most peaceful religion in history?

Why do you care about that title? It'd be misleading for anyone that tried using it.

Jainism is a religion of extreme legalism, for one attains his own salvation only through the path of asceticism (rigid self-denial). There is no freedom in this religion, only rules, primarily the Five Great Vows, the renunciation of: 1) killing living things, (2) lying, (3) greed, (4) sexual pleasure and (5) worldly attachments. Women are to be avoided entirely because they are thought to be the cause of all kinds of evil.

Like all false religions, Jainism is another lie from Satan whose desire is to entrap us in a system which focuses our attention on ourselves, the turning inward of our minds and spirits in an attempt to make ourselves worthy through self-denial and the keeping of rules. Jesus commanded us to die to self, to live for Him and, through Him, for others. The failure of Jainism to advance much beyond certain areas of India speaks to the fact that it does not meet universal human need. This is in stark contrast to Jesus Christ, whose impact is universal.

Jesus is - he is called - The Prince of Peace :

the non Christian really has no logical alternative but to accept that Jesus is God:

?I?m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don?t accept his claim to be God.? That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic-on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg-or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God; or else a madman or something worse.

You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon; or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God. ?

For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form,
Col 2:9 (NIV)

I think Buddhism is a peaceful religion.

It does not condone violence of any sort, even towards animals.

There's a Jain funded hospital for injured city pigeons.

It definitely would be one of the most peaceful faith on the planet.

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I'd say it's a toss up of Jainism and Taoism...

Probably. Although non-violence is taught in several religions, Jainism seems to put the greatest emphasis on the doctrine