Can a Christian be a terrorist?

Question

Some say there are terrorists in every religion,how can this be possable with in the belief of, and teachings of Christ. Can some one give me -even JUST ONE piece of evidence with in the wrightings of the new testament,and with in the spirit of Christ, to prove your point!
For in Christ we live to things that are good, and die to that beast which wars with our members, Principalities and powers, the rulers of this age. In Christ all things are possable, Good things
Yes, the good news for man, the blessing is HERE

Answer 1

ANYONE can be a terrorist. But a Christian terrorist would be a false Christian. The following of Christ and that action are incompatible.

Answer 2

I am pretty sure that the New Testament says that those who do not accept God will end up in Hell. A Christian might interpret this as meaning, "Make everyone a Christian. It doesn't matter how youd do it, but you have to do anything in your power to prevent people from being dammed." This person could then blow up a Mosque so that the Muslims inside could not spread their "unholy" views.

This would be terrorism based on twisting the words of the Bible. No religion actually encourages violence, but when religion is misinterpreted, any actions can be justified.

You may argue that anyone that approves of terrorism isn't a real Christian, but I think that thinking that way is just rationalization. (For example, if a Christian murders someone else, is he still a Christian? Of course he is.)
My point is that the act of commiting horrible atrocities does not remove oneself from one's own faith.


By the way, Hitler led the Nazis, who terrorized many different groups of people, resulting in 11,000,000 deaths. Hitler was a terrorrist and a Catholic.

Answer 3

As far as I know, there is no religion that encourages terrorism; however, people make up religious groups and a so called Christian or Muslim may be a terrorist. Both Christianity and Islam have condemned terrorism and the Christian or Muslim or even Jew who does these acts are going against their true teachings.

Answer 4

Terrorism is the unlawful use of violence with the intention of intimidating or coercing society.

It is against all Christian teaching to use violence against anyone or anything for the purpose of intimidation or coercion.

So-called Christian terrorists like those who blow up abortion clinics are not really Christians.

In the same way, mainstream Islam declares that so-called Islamic terrorists are not really Muslims.

With love in Christ.

Answer 5

Yes. It's no different than for any other group that has an extremist wing. The only reason I can see that Christians commit less terrorism than do other groups is that Christian terrorism here in the United States has been so successful already at achieving its goals.

Here are the obvious examples, and some links:
Eric Rudolph, Michael Frederick Griffin, Timothy McVeigh, James Charles Kopp.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Terrorism
http://www.religioustolerance.org/***_viol.htm
http://www.christiangallery.com/atrocity/
http://www.godhatesfags.com/
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Evils%20in%20America/Sodomy/homosexuality_is_a_sin.htm

Answer 6

Christians and even Jews cannot be terrorists. IT goes against the 10 commandements and for Christians the teachings of Jesus.

Love your enemy the most.

Don't kill.

Don't covet.

Jesus said two important things:

1). Sell all you own and buy a sword

2). Those who LIVE by the sword, DIE by the sword.

When Jesus says buy a sword, he doesn't expect or inted for you to use it, except to previal when confronted by elements that would kill you. It's a self defense tool, not a weapon of war.

JEsus expects you to be so good with the sword that you can vanquish your opponants without harming a hair on their head.

Then Jesus expects you to leave and wipe the dust off your feet.

Any God who tells you in one breath DON'T KILL and then sends you out to kill, is a false God.

We then have to consider if Moses was the False Prophet and if Moses MADE UP the 10 commandments and pretned them came from God, otherwise God is a hippocrite who says one thing and makes you do another.

God does not expect you to stand there and die at somone's hand, but God doesn't expect you to go out and Kill in God's name!

Anyone doing that is giving God a bad rap!

Answer 7

Somehow, I believe that a terrorists can be of any race, religion, sex, etc.

People used to say they were killing in the name of Christ, as some terrorists say about their respective religions, so why couldn't there be Christian terrorists?

Answer 8

I would call bombing a woman's clinic and murdering doctors as terrorist attacks. Wouldn't you? The word is spelled writings. Please inject some common sense into your beliefs. Preaching hate and bigotry through lies is terrorism, isn't it? I dare you to find even one homosexual who will say their sexuality is a choice. Why don't you question some of those evangelist's who are out there recruiting the weak minded.

Answer 9

No, actually Christians are terrorists because they are arrogants and dont's respect other religion. as an example: President Bush. U know what he did to muslims, right!?

Answer 10

Dude - just go look at the Crusades. 400 years of Christian attrocities sanctioned by the pope. The Crusades spawned terms like "wading in the blood of your enemies".

The First Crusade alone killed about 40,000 people.

Answer 11

I say, look up the definition of terrrorist. It will most likely mean one that provokes terror. Terror can be anything. all Christians are HUMAN, humans can do many things that provoke terror like dressing as a bunny and hiding eggs in a park. The bunny can freak out and kill any granny.