Not all Christians are terrorists but most terrorists are Christians. Why?

Question

I hear the above cliched statement about Muslims very often...

But I noticed that most global terrorists from THE CRUSADERS to HITLER to GEORGE W BUSH are all CHRISTIANS..


Why does Christianity make a propensity to terrorism?

Answer 1

Laura,

It is an astute observation of yours, despite what those above say, you are correct, all religions have their share of rotten apples. I am not sure that GW Bush sits along side the others, in fact, I am certain that he does not, but nevertheless you are right.

As the world slowly moves towards the inevitable global village, the historical boundaries become less significant. Armies to protect one geographical area from an other are becoming increasingly impudent against any enemy who, nowadays can live next door, or be our brother. These enemies we call terrorist, they share our food, breath our air, share our table, love many of us. but hate a few of us.

Of those you quote, only Hitler tried to fight his enemy within, eradication of a peaceful community within Germany was terrorism.

In the modern world, there are terrorist who seek to create chaos where there is harmony, disrupt life where it is bountiful and create fear where there is none. Whether Christians, Jews, Muslims, sheiks, or any, we have to ask the terrorist, "Why?" We have to ask the leaders of those groups within their otherwise peaceful society, "Why do you wish to harm your brother?" I am certain there is no man on this earth who wants to see his son play with an MK47 when there is a ball to kick, or shred his body with shrapnel whilst there is a bedroom to tidy. What confusion!

So Laura, you are not totally right, but there again nor are you wrong, and that which you accuse of Christians, may equally be queried to others.

To The Last Ninja below . sorry to disappoint you!
To Putt - Hitler was Catholic

Answer 2

it has been the christian way for many hudreds of years to put the blame off on others.

The crusaders were catholic. Hiter was catholic elected in a democratic election the same as GWB.

The truth is, a lot of christians are greedy, self-loving, hate preaching people. They will tell you they love you then chastise you behind your back. They will try to push their religion onto you, and if you do not accept it, they will invade your country, freeze your funds, and defame your society.

Look at the way this fundamentalist government runs the country.

Terrorism is a relative term. They are calling us terrorists, we are calling them terrorists. This seems to be the word of the decade thus far. It is thrown around way to much and I think the definition is so far diluted, that no one knows what it means. What do you think the British were calling us around the time of the Revolutionary War?

Statistically there are more muslim terrorists then anything else. But if you look at the numbers you will see that Islam GREATLY outnumbers that of any other religion in followers. The percentages are not far from different.

And yes Hitler was catholic. Look it up.

Answer 3

Look kid... you're just offended by all the muslim-haters on this site.... relax.. I know you dont actually believe that post you wrote...
And personally.. I dont believe in generalizations about muslims or christians being terrorists. And christianity does not 'make a propensiyt' towards terrorism.
NOONE has done a stastical count of terrorists and their religion.. EVER. And even if they tried, there would be too many errors coz smaller acts of terrorism wouldnt have been heard about, most incest and rape cases and murders never get reported, forget about asking about their religion. Everyday people are being killed and noone asks them their religion. A study of such dimensions would also be prone to errors merely by the sheer number of people of different religions involved.
And different people would evaluate 'terrorists' differently - you cal Bush a terrorist - but he had alot of supporters for last election.. Saddam had alot of support from his followers as well..

Concluding statement:
DONT MAKE STUPID GENERALIZED STATEMENTS. EVERY PERSON IS UNIQUE. YOU CANT GENERALIZE A RELIGION OR A RACE

Answer 4

Somehow I think this is less a question and more a statement, but I'll point out the obvious anyway;

Just because someone refers to themselves as affiliated with any certain group, does not mean they represent that group. Take a poll and I'm sure most Muslims will say cutting the heads off of kidnap victims is not the "will of Allah" any more than the average Christian would say gunning down a doctor that performs abortions is doing "God's work".

I've noticed that when it comes to committing aggressive acts in the name of a god, it's usually coming in some way connected to politics more than religion. (Anyone that seeks to govern others is political...whether they call themselves the President, the Prime Minister, the Pope, or the Ayatollah.) Good enough reason to separate church and state....

Answer 5

What rubbish.

The Crusaders were not terrorists, nor were the people they were fighting. That was a war. Hitler was not a Christian - where on earth did you get that idea?

Bush is a Christian and - why you and I may not agree with what he does - that does not make him a terrorist.

A generally accepted definition of terrorists is a person or group who by force or threat of force try and overthrow or change the policies of an elected government.

Answer 6

You question (a statement really) makes certain assumptions that stretch reality and also leaves out huge chunks of relevant history.

Crusades: most were political under the guise of Christianity, Long time (no, REALLY long time ago), there is no logic in linking Hitler and Bush to their motives.

Hitler : was the elected leader of a sovereign state. Evil, yes, Christian no, he was fascinated by Nordic paganism if anything.

GWB: Christian yes, unpopular to you -yes, so he becomes a terrorist because you do not like him? Has he sanctioned deliberate death & destruction of non-combatants? Has he called for the death of all Muslims. Does he encourage dragging enemy dead through the streets?

He may not be doing a good job, but the irrational, immature and emotional jump to terrorist is rediculous.

Answer 7

You are confused about what a terrorist is.

Hitler was not a terrorist. He was a conqueror. Terrorists often don't care about gaining and holding land. That was Hitler's main concern. He wasn't trying to scare people. He was trying to gain political control through military force.

Terrorists are not soldiers. They simply want to cause disruption and "terror", hence the name "terrorist"...

A Christian soldier would never be a suicide bomber because being a soldier means surviving and winning. Killing yourself is not really the best way to achieve that.

But a religious fanatic might kill himself believing that his god wanted him to do it.
That's why there are so many Islamic terrorist suicide bombers and no Christian suicide bombers. There was a time when Christians were martyrs, but that was centuries ago during the Age of the Roman Empire.

Answer 8

Poor misguided person: Adolf Hitler was not a Christian/He was into the dark arts of the occult: In fact the swastika is the symbol for the SUN GODDESS: I don't know any Christians who are going all around the world murdering people (just for not being Christians):
I think you should get your facts straight first.
For the record (not all muslims are terrorist) however the majority of terrorist are muslims.

Answer 9

Dont forget, Saddam was atheist, but his side-kick Tarek Aziz was Christian too, and christians in Iraq had nothing to fear of Saddam, only muslims did.

Most killings in the world are NOT done by muslims, despite them being the largest resligious group.

From Germany (christians killing jews, while Hitler was jewish by heritage himself, and non-practicing, most nazis, like most Germans in general, were of a christian denomination), to Bosnia (christians killing muslims ), to Hutu's and Tutsi.. or Americans killing Vietnamese... most killings are NOT done by muslims. On average, per capita, christians have killed and are still today killing more than muslims.

Oh, and don't forget those who died in the process of colonization by christians, and the influence it had on balance of wealth and power today.

Leaving out christian crusades, we can still safely and undeniably assume that in the past 60 years, more lives have been taken by non-muslims than those who are muslim.

Islam by definition is more tolerant of other religions, since it doesn't unconditionally condemn them, unlike the Bible.
Islam by definition is more forgiving, believing we are born innocent, than the Bible does.

Do I hate the bible, or christians, hell no.. just strongly disappoving one sided generalizations, from either side.

As for GW bush.. whether he orders the killing of thousands of innocent lives or not, anyone with any common sense, would know that the end result of his decision to go to war, would be lots of civilian casualties. This is what most of the opponest (majority in the world, INCLUDING Europe, .. including the majority of the british people.. maybe even majority of the american people, so this was a very undemocratic decision by these governments, by a fraudulently chosen president)...opposed this war.

I don't know anybody who loved Saddam. But the reason why we opposed, was to prevent the inevitable fact that this would end up in a type of civil war.. and increase of terrorism world wide.

IF the US would go to war, THEN terrorism would increase as a LOGICAL counter reaction, AND more civilians than millitary would die.. this was predicted, this was warned for, .. but GW made that decision.. Only if you believe that cause loses its affect after the first step, which it doesn't, can not not blame GW for most of this.. OR blame the terrorists of 9/11, that preceded, OR blame the US foreign policy that proceded that, their support of corrupt regimes, their traning and arming of the Taliban, the corrupt Saudi government, and a dozen other dictators around the world.. If you keep going back in history of cause and effect, you will find it started with western imperialism, often using christian millionaries as the means for infiltrating nations and paving the way for western invasion (search for "American Imperialism: Missionaries of War"), a class taught by an american historian at the University of Wisconsin.

Answer 10

At the moment, the terrorist atrocities are mostly Moslem based. Used to be Cuban hijackers, German terrorist gangs, IRA, The black hand, Mafia, etc. Fashions, even in terrorists, come and go. Today's terrorist is tomorrows freedom fighter.
No true Christian would take another person's life. Murderers might live in a Christian country and therefore take the name Chrsitian, but it doesn't make sense that devout Christians kill people. That is propaganda and you should be intelligent enough to see through it.