If people claim to be religious, how can they justify killing others and themselves? No religion i've heard of would support this behaviour. Are they using religion to justify their madness?
2006-07-29 09:03:24 · 16 answers · asked by mrmoo 3 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
Yes. The people who do that are morons. I would like to use my Oxy clean to wash those stains out of our lives.
2006-07-29 09:09:07 · answer #1 · answered by Mawyemsekhmet 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes. The Muslim beliefs and the quran state that the Muslims are to leave peacefully and according to God's love. There is no such thing as a holy war. There wasn't any justification for the crusades, there is none for the Jihad. And religion often promotes this madness. I don't support religion. I do stand for God and his truth, that all men should walk in his love and manifest his power, and destroy the works of the devil. That's the only kind of 'holy war' I would ever condone, it is a spiritual one for the bible states that we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities (rulerships) and dominions, and spiritual wickedness...
2006-07-29 13:37:13 · answer #2 · answered by ManoGod 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, modern ethics don't support war, but most ancient religions did, many of which are still around. The Jewish religion, from which Christianity and Islam stem, is completely built on war. Read the old Testament, God is leading the Israelites to victory in every other passage, he even tells them to go to war himself sometimes. As tempting as it is, you cannot change the meaning of the Bible so that it agrees with our modern ethics that war is bad.
2006-07-29 10:44:01 · answer #3 · answered by AndyB 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, an analogy to clarify the position of the modern day fundamentalist is as follows:-
One day an old man divided his children into two groups, with an assigned purpose to massage his body, one group was assigned the left side, the other the right, soon a disagreement developed between the two sides as to who was performing the better service, the disagreement escalated into violence, with each side attacking the opposing side of the old mans body, to promote their own efforts as being superior.
The term "madness" that you intelligently use, is more then justified.
To discuss further:- Sriman Sankarshan Das Adhikari (sda@backtohome.com)
2006-07-29 13:09:39 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the only war associated with any church that is justifiable is the spiritual war, to keep all things spiritual intact, because they will endure while the temporal things of this world will pass away.
the wars in the middle east that are, at least nominally, fought over religion are not justifiable according to most religions. It could be said that the religion is justifying madness.
Another thought. At least for Catholic christians, we know God punishes people. However, He will punish them in His own way. It is not our place to inflict His punishment upon those "deserving" of it. In addition, God, in His Divine Mercy may choose to save them and relent in the planned punishment. (The king of Ninevah repented, and God relented.)
The only problem in this world is that people have distanced themselves from God and Jonah's threat of destruction would go unheard and possibly persecuted.
2006-07-29 09:15:19 · answer #5 · answered by Paul N 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't forget about all the killing in the Old Testament. It must be okay if it written in the bible, so it is justifiable in the minds of religious zealots of all faiths.
2006-07-29 09:09:54 · answer #6 · answered by tomleah_06 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
nicely....possibly. I used to giggle on the term "Christian protection stress" myself....while Lebanon had greater Christians, there have been many such communities. yet, St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas DO communicate at length on the subject of the belief-approximately a "merely" conflict. i think of there is a few benefit to the belief.
2016-10-01 05:46:37 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course it is but this word is used more like a figure of speech when few people say they are fighting for the sake of protecting their religion.
2006-07-29 09:07:58 · answer #8 · answered by Mesum 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes
2006-07-29 09:11:23 · answer #9 · answered by OraclewannaB 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
let me tell u one thing
those people that use God to justify theyre sicko need to kill people who dont belive the same way they do
r not christians
they just have no good reason to kill so they try saying its ok
if they were truly christian they would read the Bilbe and know not to kill
good question and best of luck
d
2006-07-29 09:12:27 · answer #10 · answered by so_totally_awesome13 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋