in all religions they say don't kill, yet there were crusades, and now suicide bombers? pointless or what??
2006-09-22 11:56:50 · 18 answers · asked by KingyDan 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
no! no! no! it's people that are stupid!!!!!!!!!!
2006-09-22 11:59:21 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is a human fraity that cause these thing. A person seaching for truth and help looks and asks and finds no answers for a while and eventually finds God. If it was a person who introduced them then that person often gets what belongs totally to God. That person who inpired the other instead of encouraging the new brother to read the Bible instead feels this little prick of power, perhaps does not even identify what it is at first. After one leads a few more then it becomes obvious the power is building and they tell their new group of friends that if they think a seeker is near to bring that one to them and they will help them to that moment of acceptance. This person realizes he has a significant amount of pull with x many people and a church begins. If this person while teaching points the believers back into a systematic reading and studying of the whole scripture things can go on amiably with God's blessing, but if that person has stopped maturing and begun to feed on those who now follow him then he will inevitably go astray. The letters to Tim. are seldom ever taught in open church where they should be, because the cure for the runnaway church is in these pastoral epistels.
There is to be accountability of the flock and the shepard and too few christians know it and almost none practice it.. This started very early thus the references of "you are not ready for meat" I am not of Peter or Apollos but Jesus and Him crucified all directed at the result I describ above. So read Mat 18 and the epistles to TIM and spread the word
2006-09-22 19:22:46 · answer #2 · answered by icheeknows 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not the religion that is stupid, it's the human element that is stupid. If people truly followed the religion instead of creating their own interpretations on half facts, there wouldn't be near as many problems.
2006-09-22 19:01:55 · answer #3 · answered by walkerzo2000 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most of those people follow a domga rather than have a religion.
2006-09-22 18:59:05 · answer #4 · answered by CrazyCat 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there's a difference between killing and murder......the people of God have to fight evil in this world....we can't just sit back and do nothing and let inoscent people be "murdered"....it would be an injustice to God himself.....religion might be stupid in that you don't need religion to know Christ and be a child of God as many people are decieved in that way...but spirituality is not stupid and you need Jesus none the less.....all my love....freebird
2006-09-22 19:04:08 · answer #5 · answered by truegrit 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
do some research
in Islam it recommended to kill all the unbelievers
The crusaders weren't really christians, they just enjoyed fighting a lot
2006-09-22 18:59:55 · answer #6 · answered by owner4nothing 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Religion is not stupid. People who read it and twist it around to suit their drive for money, power, and land.War is money and people will use whatever excuse they can in order to get it.
2006-09-22 20:26:28 · answer #7 · answered by mortgagegirl101 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
remember, there is a reason that it is called
"blind faith"
religion appeals to the emotions, not the intellect
and once a priest/minister/imam/rabbi/politician/government....
whatever source....once the emotions are going strong....
stupidi/ignorant/pointless/unreasonable actions are often the result
2006-09-22 19:02:24 · answer #8 · answered by Gemelli2 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Religion will send people to hell. A personnel relationship with Jesus Christ will save a person. The reason God allowed people to die in the Bible was He knew they would never turn their hearts to Him, so He allowed them to die. God don't want us to get it into our minds that we have to go kill someone intentionally.
2006-09-22 19:15:48 · answer #9 · answered by salvation 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Because religion tries to find God, when God really wants to find us to have a relationship with us through Jesus Christ.
2006-09-22 19:02:05 · answer #10 · answered by Jay Z 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As physicist Stephen Weinberg put it so succinctly:
"Good people will do good things, and bad people will do bad things. But for good people to do bad things—that takes religion."
2006-09-22 19:30:32 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋