Why are we forced to honor a "religion" that encourages killing non believers?

Question

It seems to me that it is really a terrorist group posing as a religion.

Answer 1

"While murder, lying, stealing are great sins, which can land a person in the Hellfire, belief in any god other than God is called Shirk in Arabic and is unforgivable sin." (http://www.islam101.com/quizes/index.htm)

With that said many of the terrorist groups are just "groups". They are factions of radicals that kill people in the name of God. What happens in America with factions of highly religious groups that break laws by killing people? The leader or members of the group are dealt with. They are put in jail or taken out. Look at what is happening with the polygamist guy from Utah. He is being hunted down because he is breaking laws.

In the middle east there is not much security and the governments don't deal with these groups to prevent them from gaining power. If you take Hitler for example he lead a nation that was struggling and was poor. He pushed the blame on someone else for Germany's problems. He blamed the Jewish people. This gave Germans something to believe in. These religious factions or groups are doing the same thing.

The muslim religion is not bad it is just these factions of people that are causing the issues.
Hope I answered the question from at least my point of view.

Answer 2

We are not forced to honor a religion that encourages killing. We a being forced to find it harder to get at the truth due to the media outlets spewing this garbage that they the terrorist are a religion. We have become the land of the offended and weak instead of the land of the free and brave. More people need to stop reading the papers stop buying them ask the editors for the truth, find an alternate source of information, don't accept that this is they way it should be, stand up for what is right.

Answer 3

I don't believe it is the religion that promotes killing but rather the small extremist groups adapt and interpret religion as a way of justifying terrorism. Most religions when you boil them down promote the Golden Rule- do unto others as you would have done unto to you- ie be respectful and don't harm. You can twist any religious doctrine to justify terrible behaviour- be it the Bible (was it not the Old Testament that declared "an eye for an eye"), the Koran, or any other scripture; this does not mean the religion is bad, it means that hate-ridden (traumatized) people are looking for meaning for hateful behaviour.

Answer 4

I presume you are a Christian - ever heard of the Inquisition? or the witches burnt at Salem? or the forced conversions or deaths because someone did not embrace Christianity, in the colonies ruled over by the white man? Do you still honor your religion? You should, because acts by a few wrong people should not alter the respect that every religion deserves.

I am not a Christian or a Muslim or a Jew or a follower of the Old or New Testament
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Answer 5

Jennifer C: "Are you talking about Muslims? What are you talking about? It can't be the two most persecuted religious groups... Jews and Christians. Buddists don't kill from what I know.."

since when in history have christians been persecuted (I mean after AD 400 when the roman emperor Constantine adopted christianity as the state religion of the Roman Empire of course) when I tally up all the dead, wounded, oppressed and outright genocidally massacred in the world to this date, most of it was done by Christian fanatics, or fanatics in whose ideology christianity was a major influence. The entire continent of N and S America's native population was almost exterminated by these so called "good, god fearing christians" spreading the "light of the world" (by the sword of course)

Answer 6

Yes, you are right. No religion by itself is bad. Its the people who call themselves leaders who force their ideas in that manner. It is not particular to one religion. All religions around the world have some people who do so. In some parts people are more ignorant than some and are made to believe what their preachers or leaders say is right rather than understanding the whole essence of their religion by itself.

Answer 7

technological understanding explains the huge bang became no longer from no longer something yet from a singularity that became all the situation and power in the universe compressed right into a single element that then expanded rapidly! So it became continually right here! yet why are undesirable Christians continually claiming the huge bang got here from no longer something? Are they that ignorant? Did they sleep via college or is it that they be attentive to the reality yet think of they are in a position to curve it because of the fact all and sundry is gullible?! The Pope, Catholic Church, Church of england and mainstream church homes all settle for the huge bang and evolution! Lord Carey the former Archbishop of Canterbury positioned it o.k. – “Creationism is the fruit of a fundamentalist innovations-set to scripture, ignoring scholarship and intense getting to understand, and complicated diverse understandings of reality”! intense-high quality that Christians and atheists can agree and snigger at the same time even no count if it is at fundie cost! yet in the back of the laughter is the melancholy on the fundamentalists striving so no longer trouble-free to wreck Christianity by utilising turning it from a faith to an ideology! Surveys recommend that 29% of yankee Christians are so extremist of their ideals that they fall properly exterior of the ordinary bounds of Christianity!

Answer 8

I don't know of any religion that encourages killing non believers.

Did you know that the religion of Islam instructs its followers to follow all of God's books including the Torah, Bible and Scriptures?

Answer 9

HERE HERE!!!! I second that! We are forced to honor Christianity because there is strength in numbers. The problem is, people like ourselves tend to isolate ourselves because we think that there are so few in-lightened people (and sadly this appears to be true). Before there can be change, we must find OUR strength in numbers, which will be a little hard if we don't ban together publicly.

Answer 10

The vast majority of Muslims do not believe it is right to kill non-believers, and there is nothing to suggest such a belief in the Koran.