Terrorism is derived from terror. Terror means to frighten. All the religions frighten the people from the fire of the hell and then ask the people to follow that religion, if they want to save them from the fire of the hell. Does this not mean that all the religions are terrorism? (Terrorists also frighten the people and then want them to do what they like)
2006-09-17 06:17:37 · 10 answers · asked by jikg 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Most religions, yes. Not all of them have a concept of hell, but those that do are certainly trying to scare people.
2006-09-17 06:19:43 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Well being being frighten and terrorize are two different things. I do agree that some religons (if not all) tend to scare you off from doing the wrong thing. Thats not the same as being terrorize because its done by word and people can choice to listen to it or not. You don't have to believe if you don't want to. When someone tells me I would go to hell if i don't believe in something, I just think ignorance but never being terrorize. It would only become terrorism when religon forces people to listen who don't otherwise believe and leave them choiceless.
2006-09-17 13:44:58 · answer #2 · answered by Aquamarine 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Christianity is essentially a criminal business enterprise... in fact, it is the world's longest running and most successful Multi-Level Marketing (MLM) scam. The product they are selling is the illusion of 'salvation'... and the 'pay plan' doesn't kick in until after you're dead. Meanwhile the VICTIMS (having been deceived into believing that it is their God-given duty) are out there busily recruiting MORE victims. What a racket! FORTUNATELY, it only works on those who are gullible enough, and sufficiently lacking in critical thinking skills, to fall for it, and buy in to the prepackaged delusion. UNfortunately, THAT accounts for about 75% of the population of the USA. (There are a lot more people who DON'T know how to think properly than there are people who DO know how to think properly.) That is why there are a lot more religious people in the USA than there are 'Free-thinkers'... including Atheists. Also, Christians are generally too dense to realize that proselytizing (spreading the 'good news') is a key element of the Christian MLM MARKETING PLAN, which was instituted after Christianity lost the political power that had previously allowed them to simply torture and kill anybody who did not comply. Now, they obliviously try to just pester and annoy people to death, through persistent obnoxiousness. If you stop to think about it, you will realize that Christians are very much like the Borg, on Star Trek Next Generation: "You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile." I would not be surprised to learn that thoughts of Christianity provided the 'creative spark' for the Borg concept.
2006-09-17 13:39:59 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Terror does not mean TO FRIGHTEN. Terror means to feel frightened, or experience fright.. To terrorize would be to frighten.
You logic is flawed.
Cows eat grass, horses eat grass, therefore all cows are horses. No that kind of logic does not work.
2006-09-17 13:25:41 · answer #4 · answered by chris 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pst - Moses' Law Law was notably a "great terror"-ist, both to all Israel (Deut 34:12) and to Moses himself did both exceedingly fear(hath torment) and quake at Horeb-Bull Mt Sinai: Heb 12 also says when ya see "we also are compassed about" it's no walk about, but an end "run" along "with patience" unto the "perfection" of Heb 13:25 we are told to "go on unto": "Grace with you all. Amen.";
Moses himself exceedingly feared and quaked, notably at Mt Sinai in "Arabia": Gal 4:24; Galatians being where what the Spirit saith "unto the churches" (ment'd in Revelation) is located...
in which things are an "allegory" & "mystery" to solve in time, so allegoric mystery, and notably with the safety switch turned off in the third day of time past/last days/third day, to make it more EVIDENT by the EVIDENCE it's a matter of life OR death, NOT life + death(does NOT end with life). Selah.
The "grace" of our Lord Jesus Christ with you all. Amen.
2006-09-17 13:35:53 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Sharp mind that. Religion is a fountain of beliefs and ideas that can be used either way. Unfortunately, man's greed and power lust is quickly serve by anything convenient at hand.
Since religion is a belief system, so is empirical science and cottage folk stories. Like a double edge sword, ideas slanted forcefully enough cut both ways.
2006-09-17 13:26:26 · answer #6 · answered by pax veritas 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I don't follow God because I'm scared of Hell...I follow him because I want to live with a purpose for my life.
My friends are all like this too so I'm soirry that you get the psycho fundies that try the scare tactic.I just found fulfillment,not fire insurence
2006-09-17 13:20:16 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
They fabricate a life-raft of assumption, opinion and belief in order to afford some protection from the endless waves of uncertaintity that wash against the shore.
2006-09-17 13:23:38 · answer #8 · answered by a cottage by the sea 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Does this sound like terror to you?
"If your own full brother, or your son or daughter, or your beloved wife, or you intimate friend, entices you secretly to serve other gods, whom you and your fathers have not known, gods of any other nations, near at hand or far away from one end of the earth to the other: do not yield to him or listen to him, nor look with pity upon him, to spare or shield him, but kill him. Deut.13:7-12
2006-09-17 13:20:47 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
No. I dont follow my fatih out of fear, but out of love.
2006-09-17 13:20:56 · answer #10 · answered by Shane 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋