could you classify christians as fear mongers or even terrorists?

Question

aren't you just as extreme as fundemental islamics, so fevert in your beliefs that you think you are the only ones with the right answers? they think the same way as you. you try to spread fear with your " the world is ending"senerios. don't tell me shooting doctors and bombing abortion clinics aren't terrorist activities. your just as guilty as muslims with their car bombs. innocent people are dying in the name of religion. i say repent.

Answer 1

Yes they are. Also, close-minded, radical and supportive of earth domination. But all religions are... That said, I have known many wonderful and kind Islamic and Christian folks. When you're brought up being made to believe something, It's hard to see the forest through the trees, I.E. Catholics. All religion is based on a fear/reward system. DO THIS OR SUFFER DAMNATION OR NOT GET YOUR 27 VIRGINS etc.

Sure proof that god is man-made, It encompasses our most primitive beliefs and fears-Way before any organized singular god thing exsisted. Religion from birth is nothing more then brain washing. Scripture is left to interpretation ...and fault. Do radical Islamics read it that way?? Not every Islamic interprets the same and most people let someone else do the interpretation and just follow blindly (Pope, Cleric, Pastor, Rabbi).

EVERY religion talks about peace, but all have bad track records where tolerance is concerned. ALL (Technically, Buddhists have the best track record. Christians burned "witches" and more, Catholics performed crusades, inquisitions, killed Jews (Backing Germany in WWII) Islamics butcher and belittle their women and other Islamics, Mormons are just way off, lets not forget about Scientology (They'll kill aliens (As they rid themselves of resident alien personalities now (Ingrams)), the list goes on).

Also, most all religions seek and worship the same god but fight over semantics. The Qurán and the bible are known to have gone through different versions. People finally came to a stop (almost) in the 1800's with the Mormon bible and the Qurán is not any older than even the New Testament, so go figure.

A major peace will not be reached until we agree to disagree or create one unified religion or belief encompassing the concept of worship of god as a unified gesture. And just then we'll probably meet an alien who ruins all of our beliefs with its own...But the Scientologists will kill them.

But really, I think it’s stupid to believe in anything without real proof that humans haven't touched.

Answer 2

First of all, nobody has the right answers.

To be open to your question, because name-calling never got anybody to any sort of common ground, those "Christians" that shot at doctors and bombed abortion clinics do not represent the entirety of Christianity, just as those Muslims who set of car bombs and flew into the Trade Centers do not represent the whole of Islam as a belief system. They are all stupidly ignorant of what their faith is supposed to subscribe to. You are, in a sense, justified to have this opinion about Christianity, as this is sometimes the only side of Chrisianity shown to the majority of the American people. Let's face it, shooting doctors and setting off bombs sells more papers and gets better ratings than showing love to mankind, feeding the poor, and taking care of the elderly.

As for being fear mongers, I have to say that Christianity is not trying to "convert by fear" (except for maybe the senile old homeless man with his "The End is Nigh" sandwich board or the fire-and-brimstone preacher). Love is the compelling agent, and I hope you don't scoff at that statement. I truly mean it. Yes, the world is going to end, and even science apart from God knows that it's true. But what's more important is that everybody's individual lives are going to end at some time or another (speaking strictly about the everyday occurrence of death and not some Armageddon). We as Christians just want to know that the God who loves and created you gets to be with you when you pass on from this world. And, maybe, that we will get to see our brothers and sisters again.

Yes, I repent everyday for the wrongs that I've done to this world and how feebly I represent what should be a life-altering faith. I hope that you will seek someone out who will represent Christ the way that He should be. I apologize for any Christians who may have stepped on you to make you feel this way. Their judgement will come for being judgmental.

I hope you keep an open mind to what I've said as I kept an open mind to what you said. Thank you.

Answer 3

Aargh.

Unlike most faiths, calling someone a Christian is like saying, "I live in the Western Hemisphere." It's a very general term.

Granted, the Muslims have something similar in the Sunni/Shi'a divide, and Jews rank themselves along a spectrum from Reformed to Hasidic, but the basic tenets of the faith and the basic practices of the faith are pretty much the same. A Sunni or a Shi'a will fast during Ramadan, and an Ultra-Orthodox Jew will celebrate the seder alongside his Liberal Jewish cousin.

Christianity is different. For one, it's the most subdivided faith out there. Yes, a few sects have a lot of followers, but there are hundreds - if not thousands - of denominations which differ on trivia of belief and practice.

Orthodox, Coptic, and Catholic Christians have many differences in practice, while the faith is basically similar.

Protestants offshoot wildly from the old-school churches. This varies from the Lutheran church, which is basically 13th century Catholicism, to Anglicanism, which is Catholic-Light, to such bastard breeds as the extrascriptural churches, like the LDS church, Jehovah's Witnesses, Seventh Day Adventists, and Christian Scientists, to the Reformed (aka Calvinist) sects, to the fundamentalists.

I am a Christian of the old school, a church which has developed this wacky idea that following the word of the Lord is in acts and deeds rather than bible-bashing. Followers of Eastern churches (Orthodox and Oriental churches) don't go about protesting or bombing abortion clinics; while they disagree with the act, it's not the only thing on their agendas.

We - nor the Catholics and the mainline Protestants - don't preach the end is nigh, and in fact tend towards strong support of Palestinians. (St George, for example, was a Palestinian.)

The fundamentalists, the Calvinists, are the ones preaching that Revelations is cometh to passeth. Of course, they tend to forget that it only takes one bad call to show someone as a false prophet...

Sorry, got on a rant there.

Answer 4

Of course. Just as there are muslim extremists and terrorists, there are also christian extremists and terrorists.

Most of the christian terrorism in america concerns bombing abortion centers and assaulting abortion doctors. Every now and then you'll get someone who attacks a pornography or sex-toy store too.

They're commiting terrorism just like the muslim ones. It fits the definition of terrorism, after all:

"The unlawful use or threatened use of force or violence by a person or an organized group against people or property with the intention of intimidating or coercing societies or governments, often for ideological or political reasons."

The difference is that christian terrorism doesn't often get nationwide news coverage in the united states.

Answer 5

Yes. Using a fictional charactor to persuay people to disbelieve, hate, hurt, and turn people against ANY other person or peoples is wrong and terroristic. Using a fictional charactor to determine love and unnaturalities, hate and "the right thing", living and dying, and what makes people good or evil, saints and "sinners" is wrong and terroristic. Christians as well as Muslims have all strayed from what was set, what was meant for them to believe. All of them are hypocrites, liars, and decriminators.

Religion should be a criminal offence.
Repenting is kharmically stupid. The only thing left is suicide.

Answer 6

These so-called 'Christians' that you say are killing, clearly aren't sincere in their beliefs if they go around murdering people. And you directly associate Islamic believers to terrorists, which is a fault within our society today. All kinds of people claim to one religion and do extreme things claiming it's in the name of their religion, but it is not. Those who do such things do it out of their own need for power or purpose that they have to seek worldly acceptance or just attention from the world. It's not right to condem the name of Christianity for certain so-called believers who sin and do wrong things. But yes, I agree that those who do such thing need to repent, and resolve.

~*cheers*~

Answer 7

Not all Christians or Muslims are terrorists, only the violent and intolerant ones. These are people who pay no attention to what their religion teaches about compassion, only about what it says about punishment. Sometimes I think that religion is a political tool to control people through their faith.

Answer 8

The next time I see millions of Christians marching in the streets and burning down buildings and making death-threats after someone blasphemes Christ, I'll start to worry about Christian terrorism. As it is, Muslim terrorists and terrorist sympathizers outnumber similar Christian extremists by about 10,000 to one, and that's a conservative estimate.

Answer 9

Only those who're worry mongerers, the extra I appear at matters the extra I appreciate that the majority matters that folks look to assosiate with faith aren't particularly to do with the faith however with one of the most folks who comply with it and the way they look to be ready to make use of it for there possess way. For instance with christianity, intolerence and hatred and many others. are regarded sinful acts nonetheless those are trends many folks assosiate with christians (a generalisation due to the fact such a lot christians aren't fundamentalists from the yankee south) however they're trends that experience not anything to do with the faith itself simply the folks

Answer 10

Yes, some Christians are just as extreme as fundamentalists of other religions, but there are many who don't fit that description at all. Try not to generalize.