Tell me if i am wrong?

Question

if compassionate Buddha and jesus cant turn the violant sri lankan buddhists and violant phillipino chiristians in to beings of compassion i wonder how mohomed who was more of a military dictator turn muslims in to beings of compassion?

Answer 1

you are WRONG!

btw, what was the other question?

Answer 2

Violence has nothing to do with religion - but individuals. I can answer about Sri Lanka since I live there.

The LTTE are mainly Hindu Tamils who kills a large number of innocent Hindu's, Christians and Buddhists in Sri Lanka. The fact - it is the Sri Lankan Army that kills the terrorist of LTTE - Meanwhile the terrorist of LTTE kills Buddhists, Hindu's, Muslims and all others in Sri Lanka (and world over like Rajiv Gandhi - the former Indian Prime Minister) The Sri Lankan people immaterial of their religion lives a very peaceful life in other parts of the Island - right now, where I am seated, I can see people of all religions working in harmony - Sri Lanka does not have a religious or racial issue - we have terrorism over here.

If I am lying you better come here and have a look - contact me - I will show you personally - this is a misconcept that some people have about Sri Lanka - there is terrorism here and not racism.

Answer 3

The question misses the point .

The problem doesn't lies with the teachings of the religons but in flawed human minds.

Human beings chose these unwholesome paths and commit those unwholesome actions . Later on, the blame was thrust on to the founders of these religons.

For example : How do you turn violent ? Did someone point a gun behind your head and FORCED you to be violent and therefore you become a violent Buddhist ?

NO ! You DECIDED you want to be violent to other people. The Buddha never asked you to use violent means towards other people. You decided to go down this path and therefore you have to bear and suffer the consequences(Karma) .

I believed the same applies for followers of all other religons.

Hoped this helps.

Answer 4

Education turns people into beings of compassion. No prophet anywhere is going to help with that. It requires a strong family environment and conscious teachers. Religions start wars - they don't stop them.

Answer 5

You're wrong.

Sorry, just had to say it. It was burning inside of me and had to come out.

Ok...with that aside, every religion has it's violent side where people who do not understand the fullness of the teaching go off half-cocked as it were. From a Christian perspective, those who do violence for Christianity's sake, are deceiving themselves.

Answer 6

Nobody could decide for anybody to change, unless you are willing, not even God can force anything to your life, because He has given human free will, and self govern, right to choose, including your eternal salvation which is your soul. 1st God respect that free will He gave us. 2nd God can help you, if you are willing, that is to surrender the authority to God back for God to rule, and ask God to intervene. 3rd, He cares so so much for you, because He love you, he created you and long to help you. Miracle can happen by prayer. therefore all things are possible in Jesus!

Answer 7

we are happy to tell, compassion? who wants that? it is no money in that my friend you don`t scare people by being compassion. war is where the big bucks are, always have been, always will be.
peace and love from Norway

Answer 8

Purpose of any religion is just to guide. It should be serving humanity and make oneself a better human being. It is to lead us to God.

Buddha and Jesus may have been very great men but their deciples are not them.

Buddhist in Srilanka may be playing real bad but they have an excuse saying they are trying to fight LTTE. But the problem is not religious exactly.

Its POWER and politics.

The history of LTTE reveals a discernible pattern in its relations with religious institutions: it has ruthlessly attacked and killed Muslims, Hindus and Buddhists but hardly ever touched Christians. It has never confronted the Churches the way it has taken on the other three main religionists.

In fact, it has had a very cozy relationship with the Churches. Though the LTTE has raided and taken over Hindu Temples by force in Western countries it has never dared to touch a single Christian church run by the Jaffna Tamils abroad.

The obsession of the Churches with Prabhakaran’s racist politics makes them blind to the teachings of Jesus who preached a doctrine in which all are children of God. The object of their theology is to tie Christianity with the brutal ethnic politics of Prabhakaran. Emmanuel rushed to Bishop Desmond Tutu and managed to convince him to write an foreword to his booklet, Let My People Go. But to where? Into Prabhakaran’s hell?

The LTTE and the Churches maintain this lovey-dovey relationship because it serves their mutual interests. LTTE has found in the international network of the Churches easy access to Western media, politicians, churches and other powerful lobbies to cover-up their crimes against humanity.

Though the separatist movement claims to have its roots in the Jaffna Hindu Tamils it has always had a strong element of Christians either leading it or influencing it. Its very first leader, S. J. V. Chelvanayakam, was an Anglican. However, when the Church of South India established its branch in Sri Lanka he switched over from the Anglican to CSI because of its ethnic leanings.

The seeds of dissension sown by Chelvanayakam saw his political descendants blow up the Sacred Temple of the Tooth in Kandy, massacring Muslim praying in Kathakudy in the East, shooting in broad daylight a Japanese Buddhist monk who went on a mission of peace in the north, spraying bullets on Buddhist pilgrims at the Sacred Bo Tree in Anuradhapura and … the list is unending. But his political children dared not touch the Christians. They are too powerful and the backlash against them would be too hard to bear.

Its not that all Christians support LTTE either.

But those Christians who oppose them or refuse to join them, they are killed as ruthlessly by LTTE as they kill any other person.
Even a reverend was killed by LTTE.

But despite all his crimes LTTE has support in west in countries like Canada and Norwey.

Again I know religion is being used to get power but I also believe religion is also using LTTE to get more power.

Blame people and power hunger not the religion. I do not see Compassion of Christ but only power thirsty racism in LTTE.

Buddist lost most of their territory in Asia to Islam for being passive. They may not want to disappear from Srilanka without a fight.

Yet again not all Buddhist in history have had perfect record of non violence. They have their tyrants. Just less in number but still.

I am really at a loss. But I do not know If original arabic brand of Islam will be tolerant ever. But many sects of Islam , like Ahamadiya , Indian Sufism are not fanatic. But they are not accepted as Islamic by Sunnis and get the same treatment as other non muslim sects.

I can not tell if you are right or wrong . I do not know . If Buddhist and Christianity can not separate politics and religion, Islam never boasted the separation between the two. Instead it is proud of it. Islam actually asks it followers not to live in a country where Islam is not the state religion. Secular country is second choice.

only Allah (God) can tell. Or we will see it in some next incarnation.

Answer 9

If any of these characters existed at all they were merely mortal men and therefore didn't know and/or didn't care what conflict and suffering would occur in their names in the distant future.

Answer 10

ha ha, muslims more compassionate, dont think so, arent most of them raised to kill, or make bombs, i bet even the terrorists are laughing at this one

Answer 11

maybe you're the one who needs to learn compassion yourself.