If our places were switched, if it were Christians in the Middle East and Muslims in the US, the Christian Fundamentalists would be the terrorists.
They're two sides to the same coin...one of them just has bigger guns.
2006-07-26 06:33:48 · 13 answers · asked by l00kiehereu 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Many respond that suicide (as in suicide bombers) would go directly to hell.
And yet:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Augbal48v5xPo16DE3J8XoLzy6IX?qid=20060726095805AAR4A8s
It's not big leap from "Dying for Christ" to Suicide Bomber.
2006-07-26 06:43:10 · update #1
splinterjah - you're cherry-picking your data. There's plenty of violence in the OT, and then there's this:
Matt. 10:34 "Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword."
or this:
Luke 22:36 He said to them, "But now if you have a purse, take it, and also a bag; and if you don't have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one."
2006-07-26 12:57:24 · update #2
An extemist is an extremist is an extremist ...
2006-07-26 06:37:47 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
You didn't do well in school did you ? This is a place where you ask a question if same, same is your question then no clearly they are not at all the same. Maybe you are just trying to be controversial though, I don't think you are or else you would have had more of a point. I am saddened by your random thoughts and the fact you thought of sharing them.
2006-07-26 13:40:46 · answer #2 · answered by Wesley B 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is absolutely no way to make that claim and have any means of validating it. In reality, Christian fundamentalists have an authoritarian streak, but Christians by and large commit vastly lower numbers of terrorist acts than Muslims.
2006-07-26 13:38:27 · answer #3 · answered by Zombie 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Radical Islam kills for Allah....
Fundemental Christianity lives and loves for God...
When is the last time you heard of a Christian hijack a plan in Jesus name?
NEVER and you never will...
What is with "Christians are terrorist" that I keep hearing all of the time?
In their only reason to call us terrorist is because of the crussades, ancient history... it was a war fought by 2 sides.... unjust war but still a war...
Those men that launched and supported the Crussades called themselves Christians, but they were not... they were religious hypocrites hungery for power and money...
this is what happens when you don't follow the peace and love taught in the Bible....
I myself do not consider to be one of them...
Another child of Satan is that false preacher that says, "God hates gays and kills soldiers", again this man calls himself Christian, but he is a wolf in sheeps clothing, he doesn't follow the scriptures of love towards others...
I do not consider to be associated with him... there are millions of other Christians like me that dispise these evil men, but still, they are not terrorist...
Now the Quran teaches hate and war against Jews and Christians...
"Fight and slay the pagans( Christians and Jews and non believers) wherever you find them, and sieze them, beleagur them, and lie in wait for them in every strategem( of war)."- Surah 9:5, the Quran
the Islamic terrorist actually obey the Quran when they commit terrorism...
On the other hand this is what the Bible teaches...
"Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you."- Matthew 5:44, the Bible
You see....
then why, WHY do you hate Me enough to call me a terrorist?? or compare with the Muslim terrorist?....
They killed thousands of Americans on 9/11.... I didn't see a Christian plan that attack, No but a Radical Muslim...
Are you so hatefull and disrespectfull to call me and others like me a terrorist?
Why do you hate me without cause? Does the name that I bear( Christ name) offend you that much?
Are you so closed minded and hatefull to believe and think that way?
Why?
Well.... God bless you and your family, I forgive you...
you have a good day...
2006-07-26 14:01:06 · answer #4 · answered by Mr. Agappae 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your assessment is correct. Religious extremism is the single greatest cause of suffering throughout human history, and it may very well lead to the end of our species altogether.
2006-07-26 13:41:02 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Also, Christians believe suicide is a ticket to hell, at least Catholics do.
2006-07-26 13:37:25 · answer #6 · answered by Spanish Angel 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hardly. If a Christian dies for Christ, it is for the SOLE fact, someone has placed a knife to our throat or a gun to our head, and tells us "Renounce Christ or die", and we say "Go ahead. I will not renounce my faith in Jesus Christ", and they kill us. We are not to cause harm to others ("Love your neighbor as you love yourself"). I cannot go blow up a building, killing a bunch of people in the process, and die, and expect to be worthy of Heaven.
Consider John 16:2-3 "They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service. And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me." Now, if people who don't really know God or Jesus will kill us thinking they're doing God a favor, yet are rejected, don't you think that someone who calls themselves a Christian who kills is even LESS in God's favor, because we know not to kill?
Consider Stephen. The Pharisees knew he was a Christian, and said that he was blaspheming against God. So Stephen told them his faith, how he believed as they did about Moses, and God, but then mentioned how God sent Jesus, and how Jesus was the Messiah, thereby not renouncing his faith. Then the Pharisees killed Stephen there on the spot. The Pharisees instigated the violence by forcing him to proclaim his faith, and the killed him because of it. Not once did Stephen lift a finger against any of them.
As to the purchase of swords... don't you think they ought to have *some* kind of protection against the local wildlife... like lions?
As to "did not bring peace, but rather a sword"... you have to look at the bigger picture. We are not to kill... yet because of Christ, we are killed. The peace He brings is not between believers and unbelievers, but between the saved and God. The 'sword' He brings is not for us to use against you... but for you to use against us. Christ crucified noone, but healed the afflicted. Peter cut off a slave's ear trying to protect Jesus, and the Lord gave him an thorough chiding for it, then healed the slave's ear (PROVING that violence does *NOT* please Jesus... if He would correct His own disciple over violence, how do you think He feels about the abortion bombings?! Killing those who kill others solves nothing). Stephen did nothing except preach, yet was stoned to death. Paul did nothing except preach, yet was killed in Rome. John did nothing except write about Jesus, and was exiled to Patmos.
They were slaughtered for the crime of being a Christian. That is the only kind of martyrdom we recognize, is death by the hand of the one who tells us to renounce our faith. Martin Burnham is a martyr (he was a missionary, captured by local Abu Sayyaf fighters in the Philippines. He was polite, cooperated with his captors, shared his food with the children members of Abu Sayyaf, and stayed true to his faith until the moment he died from a gunshot wound to the chest). The Army of God (for example, the most commonly known so-called 'Christian' abortion bombers) is not Christian at all, since they actually advocate violence (see above, regarding the chiding Peter got from Jesus), let alone be considered martyrs for Christ.
One sin is no different than another sin ("For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all." - James 2:10). If it was righteous to kill an abortionist, Jesus would have led the example by being the first to cast stones at the adultress. But no, He forgave her, and told her to "sin no more". So we are to live by His example. Instead of killing those who kill, we are to *teach* those who kill, to get them to repent... after all, a dead man can learn nothing, nor do they have the chance to repent.
2006-07-27 13:35:49 · answer #7 · answered by seraphim_pwns_u 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Except today's Christian fundamentalists do not do suicide bombings...well unless you count bombing abortion clinics..but that doesn't happen too often fortunately.
2006-07-26 13:36:18 · answer #8 · answered by WiserAngel 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Or Even worse "jewish fundamentalist"
2006-07-26 13:37:22 · answer #9 · answered by DJ_Netmen 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thats all nonsense. You don't make any sense.
2006-07-26 13:38:28 · answer #10 · answered by Fatima 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋