Sorry to break this to you, Madhuri but religions do encourage violence if you do not agree with their idealogy. All religions for that matter. On one hand they preach peace and tolerance but on the other they directly or indirectly call for the destruction of non-believers. This fact is abundant in all religions including Islam and Christianity and Hinduism. Christians and Muslims have waged religious wars for hundreds of years and slaughtered millions of people. And it continues today.
I am not saying there is nothing to learn from religion. The problem is with interpreting religion literally. Do you need religion to touch god?
