y do ppl say religions kill?

Question

religions don't kill--ppl do

just like some ppl say guns kill but they don't ppl do

right?

Answer 1

There are some wacked out beliefs that brainwash people. But, as for the actual act of killing yes people kill. I think brainwashed or not deep down they still know it is wrong.

Answer 2

It is because over the centuries so many, many organized religions have brain washed people into believing that they are doing right by God if they go out and kill there enemy in the name of their God.Brain Washing and mental control take over a person so that he can no longer think for him or herself. They completely believe in their minds that they are doing the right thing. So, yes...religion as a whole has been the cause of many blood baths.

Answer 3

Religion is very inconsistant, esspecially the three major monotheistic religions in todays world. Throught history and even in todays world religion is the cause of many problems. It provides a reason for killing. Even though christianity says thou shall not kill and blah blah. Religion paves some path of destruction. Always has and always will.

Answer 4

Religions may not kill directly, but they certainly inspire people to do so. Until the 20th century, the Catholic church was the greatest perpetrator of genocide in history, with hundreds of thousands dead. Islam, as it fought its way across Africa and into Europe, is a close second. And, of course, one needs to remember the goings-on in Berlin, Madrid, London, New York, Chechniya, Indonesia, and who knows how many other places.

Answer 5

I'll reply with an example.

During March of 2005, Maricica Irina Cornici, 23, visited Holy Trinity, a Romanian Orthodox monastery in Tanacu in north west Romania in order to visit a friend. She decided to stay and become a nun. According to a report by MediaFax news agency, she suffered from schizophrenia. However, other news sources report that she had no mental illness. Her behavior caused the priest, Father Daniel Corogeanu, 29, and the nuns at the convent to conclude she was possessed by the Devil. USA Today reports that "One parishoner, Dora, said the nun 'had to be punished, she had an argument with the Father during a Sunday mass and insulted him in front of the congregation'." According to News.Telegraph, the priest concluded that she was "beyond salvation" in life. As part of the exorcism ritual to drive Satan from her body, they denied her food and drink and kept her shut up for several days, with her hands and feet tied. Later, they tied and chained her to a cross, and pushed a towel into her mouth to smother sounds. She apparently survived the crucifixion for three days. She finally died of asphyxiation, presumably in great agony, either from the gag or the crucifixion itself, on June 15th.

Religious ignorance kills.

Answer 6

Right, but it is much easier to blame something else. The reason people say that religion kills is because the political or religious leaders have usurped the religion for their own power gain and the turn the doctrine into their own personal way of destroying others they wish to get rid of or control. leaders are aware of the fact that to control you must own the masses, and what better way to own them than through their religious beliefs.

Answer 7

Religion have a big part to make people beleive what they can do and they cannot do. It is a sin or it is God will.

If the religion allow violent, killing, suicide bom, torture against other religion. That is the Religions Kill not the people. Because the Religion allow their beleiver to do that.

For example Christianity, If other religion insult, torture, killing our beleiver. We cannot revenge, we also cannot thread or kill our Enemy. Our Religion teach to Forgive, We also need to pray for our Enemy. That is call Peace.

Answer 8

Religion does kill. It becomes legalstic. But, faith in the one true God does not kill, it saves. Relgion gets into all the doctrines of man and man made rules. Christianity, true Christianity, is about God, and love, and following all that God tells us to do, to save us andmake our life better. He wants us to live Holy lives, pure lives with meaning and purpose and to teach this to others, so that the world we live in is a nice place. When people depart from God, this is when crime gets bad and eerything else. people are no respectors of self or others. It becomes about self and pleasure only, leads to hedonism. Do we not read the papers today and see a society that has abandoned Gods ways for their own? Relgion is false. But, Christianity is about love and helping others, and considering them more than you would even yourself. Its about giving and loving, not about getting..... Do we not look at society today and say the world needs more of this Christian attitude, or are we content and happy living in chaos, crime, and just plain YUK, for lack of a better word this morning. Read the papers. constant killings, and everything else. look at the movies and tv. everyone in bed with everyone else, constant filth talked, and everyone out for self, no matter the cost. Oh what a perfect world heaven will be when all this self centereness is gone.... yes religion kills. but, faith saves.

Answer 9

A gun no different than a person drunk getting behind the wheel and driving, both you are making a conscience decision, while the bullet or car may of killed the person, you operated the machine that caused the death.

Answer 10

No.

Religion plants crazy things in the minds of some fanatical people. There have been people who shot up their entire family supposedly because "God wanted them to do it." And look at all that violence in the Middle East right now and throughout history -- you cannot sit there and tell me that that has nothing to do with religion.

***

Paladin provided an excellent example, even better than the one I was thinking of. That sums it all up right there.