would you die for what you believe in?

Answer 1

Yes, to save my children.

Answer 2

No, I don't think so! First, it would seem better to remain alive in order to act on one's beliefs. Martyrdom may not be as virtuous as is presumed, and in fact it may spell defeat for one's cherished ideals. Secondly, I'm not much of a "believer" but tend to accept things in a tentative way, realizing that it's not so easy to monopolize truth. Intense beliefs all to often have hastened the deaths of those locked to them ... and it may well be a pointless, wasteful death in the majority of cases ... especially when those "noble great Truths" have already been adulterated with more than a few insidious lies.

Answer 3

What a question. Well, I would like to say yes. But, there is always a but. One of the greatest apostles "Peter" told Jesus that he would die for him, Well Jesus said he would not but would deny him 3 times before the cock crows that morning.
I think Jesus would not put on us more than we could handle. After the apostles recieved the Holy Spirit and grew in Christ and were taught and tested, many of them did give up their lives. Thats not the real test, the real test is what most dear would you give up. In a split second decesion I think I could give my life up willingly for a loved one, but to sit and think about it,,,AAAAHHHH and thats not the real test. Look at Abraham, willing to give up his son to the Lord by his own hand. That my freind is faith. But he did not have this faith coming fresh out of the city. He learned it in the wilderness under Gods tutlidge, he was consistanly taught, tried and tested.
This was a good question.
Hope this helps
God Bless
CharDonn

Answer 4

There is a scene in the book "All Quiet on the Western Front" when a soldier takes a bullet in the head on the battlefield. His last thoughts were how seriously he screwed up believing all the B.S. that was fed into his brain. If you're dead, it means nothing. You're dead. You can't even revel in the self-satisfaction of your supreme sacrifice. I would want to die if I were in terrible pain, if I were terminally ill, if I lost my sight, if I was seriously seriously f*cked up psychologically. But I wouldn't want to die because it's my "patriotic duty" to kill Iraqis that never did a thing to me.

Answer 5

At first you have have to see how much you believed in something. There are some things that I believe in that I would but on the other hand I have felt just as strongly about other things until I fully understood them and got some other points of view.

Answer 6

Yes, unlike the apostate Shabbetai Zvi... read all abt this clown in the links below.

Basically, he claimed to be the Messiah, had all the credentials... everyone thought that HE was THE one...

He sailed to Costantinople to demand that Sultan Mehmed IV convert to Judaism.

Instead the sultan gave him the choice of converting to Islam or get beheaded. He decided to save his own skin and converted to Islam...

He was not only a false messiah, he was an apostate and worst, he was the dumbest jew ever to live...

Answer 7

Here is a case whereone can die for not being attentive enough!
Death for Muslims who fail to pray



Mogadishu
July 7, 2006

Somali Muslims who fail to perform daily prayers will be killed in accordance with Koranic law under an edict issued by a leading cleric.

The requirement for Muslims to pray five times a day under penalty of death appears to confirm the hard-line nature of the increasingly powerful Sharia courts in the Somali capital, Mogadishu.

"He who does not perform prayers will be considered as infidel and Sharia law orders that that person be killed," said Sheikh Abdalla Ali, a founder and high-ranking official in the Supreme Islamic Council of Somalia.

"Sharia law orders the killing of any Muslim person when he fails to perform prayers," he said in an address at the opening of a new Islamic court in Mogadishu's southern Gubta neighbourhood.

Answer 8

Yes, for Jesus not for some other beliefs I have.

You know like Hell is inside a black hole(wouldn't die for that one)

That asthma/allergies and weight problems are strongly related(wouldn't die for that one either)

That all moms should breastfeed at least 9 months without introducing solids(wouldn't die for that one either)

Answer 9

depends on what is was. If, for example, my death would mean absolutely no genocide anywhere on the earth, than yes. But I find more often than not, martyrdom does very little.
I might on the principle of the thing but I think i would rather stay alive to keep fighting for a cause.

Answer 10

All will die regardless of what they believe in.
Except for those that come out of the great tribulation.

Answer 11

I'd be dishonest if I said I would.

For a fantastic illustration of this, watch the Spanish-language movie Men with Guns (Los Hombres Armados).