Does the irrationality of religious extremists make christians question their own religion?

Question

Does the irrationality of religious extremists make christians question their own religion? When I hear some christian people preach and talk about god it sounds a lot like the way Bin Ladin or some other crazy religious extremist would talk, minus the attacks of course. Could the same religious factor that leads Bin laden to blindly believe that what he's doing is right also lead Christians to blindly say that the bible is right and what they do is right? Both have faith right? So isn't he a good example of why we should question faith? Would you say that some religious interpretations are right and some are wrong?

Answer 1

Prayer is offered to a person in two ways: first, as to be fulfilled by him, secondly, as to be obtained through him. On the first way we offer prayer to God alone, since all our prayers ought to be directed to the acquisition of grace and glory, which God alone gives, according to Psalm 83:12, "The Lord will give grace and glory." But in the second way we pray to the saints, whether angels or men, not that God may through them know our petitions, but that our prayers may be effective through their prayers and merits. Hence it is written (Apocalypse 8:4) that "the smoke of the incense," namely "the prayers of the saints ascended up before God." This is also clear from the very style employed by the Church in praying: since we beseech the Blessed Trinity "to have mercy on us," while we ask any of the saints "to pray for us."

The Holy Bible Douay-Rheims Version

With Challoner Revisions 1749-52
1899 Edition of the John Murphy Company

IMPRIMATUR:
James Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore, September 1, 1899.

Pope Damasus assembled the first list of books of the Bible at the Roman Council in 382 A.D. He commissioned St. Jerome to translate the original Greek and Hebrew texts into Latin, which became known as the Latin Vulgate Bible and was declared by the Church to be the only authentic and official version, in 1546.

The DR New Testament was first published by the English College at Rheims in 1582 A.D. The DR Old Testament was first published by the English College at Douay in 1609 A.D. The first King James Version was not published until 1611. This online DRV contains all 73 books, including the seven Deutero-Canonical books (erroneously called Apocrypha by Protestants). These seven books were included in the 1611 KJV, but not in later KJV Bibles.

The whole Douay-Rheims Bible was revised and diligently compared with the Latin Vulgate by Bishop Richard Challoner in 1749-1752 A.D. The notes included in the text were written by Dr. Challoner.

The DR Bible was photographically reproduced from the 1899 edition of the John Murphy Company, Baltimore, Maryland, by Tan Books in 1971. Eventually, this edition was optically scanned to produce a large text file which this publisher used for creating this website, with the aid of text-processing software.

One important goal of this project was to preserve the original text "as is", without making any changes in the wording, because the original text had the Imprimatur of James Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore, dated Sept 1st 1899.

The text file was checked quite thoroughly by software written by the publisher for punctuation errors and verses out of order. The index was humanly checked for misspelled words and the corrections were made to the text. However, some spelling errors may still be present in the text. Many verses were out of order in the original file. These have been corrected.

Every effort was made to ensure that this online version is an exact match to the original printed version. No words were added or ommitted from the text, except for correcting errors caused by the scanning process. No words were rearranged. No verse numbers were changed, except in the case of Psalm 9.

Psalm 9 originally contained 21 verses and there were 2 versions of Psalm 10, numbering 1-18 and 1-8. This obviously caused a conflict, so it was decided to make the first Psalm 10 as the last part of Psalm 9 and renumber the verses 22-39. This retains the same numbering as all the Douay Rheims. Note, in the Protestant Bibles the numbering of Psalms 10 through 146 differs by one.

The Holy Bible Douay-Rheims Version

With Challoner Revisions 1749-52
1899 Edition of the John Murphy Company

IMPRIMATUR:
James Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore, September 1, 1899.

Pope Damasus assembled the first list of books of the Bible at the Roman Council in 382 A.D. He commissioned St. Jerome to translate the original Greek and Hebrew texts into Latin, which became known as the Latin Vulgate Bible and was declared by the Church to be the only authentic and official version, in 1546.

The DR New Testament was first published by the English College at Rheims in 1582 A.D. The DR Old Testament was first published by the English College at Douay in 1609 A.D. The first King James Version was not published until 1611. This online DRV contains all 73 books, including the seven Deutero-Canonical books (erroneously called Apocrypha by Protestants). These seven books were included in the 1611 KJV, but not in later KJV Bibles.

The whole Douay-Rheims Bible was revised and diligently compared with the Latin Vulgate by Bishop Richard Challoner in 1749-1752 A.D. The notes included in the text were written by Dr. Challoner.

The DR Bible was photographically reproduced from the 1899 edition of the John Murphy Company, Baltimore, Maryland, by Tan Books in 1971. Eventually, this edition was optically scanned to produce a large text file which this publisher used for creating this website, with the aid of text-processing software.

One important goal of this project was to preserve the original text "as is", without making any changes in the wording, because the original text had the Imprimatur of James Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore, dated Sept 1st 1899.

The text file was checked quite thoroughly by software written by the publisher for punctuation errors and verses out of order. The index was humanly checked for misspelled words and the corrections were made to the text. However, some spelling errors may still be present in the text. Many verses were out of order in the original file. These have been corrected.

Every effort was made to ensure that this online version is an exact match to the original printed version. No words were added or ommitted from the text, except for correcting errors caused by the scanning process. No words were rearranged. No verse numbers were changed, except in the case of Psalm 9.

Psalm 9 originally contained 21 verses and there were 2 versions of Psalm 10, numbering 1-18 and 1-8. This obviously caused a conflict, so it was decided to make the first Psalm 10 as the last part of Psalm 9 and renumber the verses 22-39. This retains the same numbering as all the Douay Rheims. Note, in the Protestant Bibles the numbering of Psalms 10 through 146 differs by one.

Answer 2

To your first question, no it doesn't make me doubt my faith. In fact, it confirms that i am trying to do it "right".

Many Many interpretations are wrong, and you should question the way others of your "faith" are interpreting it, to ensure you don't follow them.

Acts 17:11
Now the Bereans were of more noble character than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true.

That is how a christian should respond whenever he hears someone preach.

Answer 3

first of all, you ought to shed the generalization that it is the CHRISTIAN faith it somewhat is anti-gay marriage. it somewhat is misguided. i'm a Christian, in specific a United Methodist. I and a lot of, many others in my church do no longer consider any attempt to outlaw gay marriage. We do experience to various levels that the Bible is against it, and we warfare alongside with our gay and lesbian brothers/sisters to comprehend this and are available to words with it. yet returned, those i comprehend do no longer help this. I additionally comprehend of a "section" in our church it somewhat is quite fundamentalist and specific poured each and every ounce of potential that they had into prop 8. So, you have have been given (a minimum of) 2 different evaluations merely interior the church. As on your question... i don't comprehend adequate with regard to the vows of marriage and what we've been directed to do in this count by potential of Him. regardless of the shown fact that, i'm able to declare that if 2 people take a vow and that's broken, there is repentance and contemplation that should shop on with. i myself am married, I have no objective of no longer "making it paintings" and that i legitimately reported my vows. i think of many people who get married and destroy aside interior a 300 and sixty 5 days or 2 (or much less even) did no longer even comprehend that the marriage grew to become into greater suitable than a ceremony. In different words, they spoke their vows with none which potential or understanding. merely words. i would not even evaluate that breaking a vow to end a marriage like that throughout divorce. the type of "marriage" grew to become into in no way a real marriage, it is merely 2 people "enjoying homestead." i don't comprehend... i think I see it greater precise, with greater sides than what you describe.

Answer 4

I can't speak for every Christian, but I don't follow the Bible blindly.

Answer 5

I don't question my faith, I follow what the Bible says.

Answer 6

yes

Answer 7

Yes, thats true.