I just don't understand that. to throw your life away for something or someone that might not even exist.
I'm not particularly religious. Maybe that's why. Please. Elaborate.
2006-11-13 21:30:01 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
because they are f**king twisted and are murders
2006-11-13 21:32:24 · answer #1 · answered by heleney 2 · 0⤊ 4⤋
Well for someone who is well-paid, well-fed and comfortable it wouldn't make any sense, would it?
A lot of people who die for a religion don't have anything to lose. They are often poor with little or no hope for the future.
Wouldn't you swap a miserable life for a glorious eternity if you believed that was possible?
2006-11-14 05:37:47 · answer #2 · answered by tabs 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can only answer you from a Christian perspective.
I the history of christianity, you would see many martyrs dieing for the one and only purpose, which is their love for their Creator and savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.
Given the Christianity is based in its simplest and purest form as a profound and deap loving relationship between God and man, thus when someone finally finds and experiences that love once and for all, NOTHING can separate them from it. St. Paul writes and asks the same question "what would separate us from the love of God? not persecution nor death!"
And thus, these martyrs loved Christ so much that they would have much rather die than deny their faith and love for Him.
In respect to you valid point of "throw your life away for something or someone that might not even exist."
well, if they have felt that love so much, their is undeniable knowledge and faith Him who is a living reality. They experienced him and felt that love to an extent that there is not a shadow of a doubt in their mind that He is worth dieing for and spending the rest of their eternity with Him...as opposed to denying Him, dropping out of that love and Grace and live miserable lives knowing that they have hurt him by denying His existance.
easiets way to think about it..."have you ever loved someone so much that you would die for them than be separated from them by betrayal?"
Simal kind of concept.
I hope this helps...God bless.
2006-11-14 05:44:15 · answer #3 · answered by copticphoenix 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because they've been told they're going to a much better place where they will be rewarded for their deeds.
Some people are just more gullible than others. I can't think of anything I'd be willing to die for. Note I didn't say anyone - just anything. Not for someone else's god, not for anyone's patch of land, and not for my ideals - I can find a better way to get my point across.
2006-11-14 05:33:09 · answer #4 · answered by eri 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Its not so much dying for GOD more than the principle of STicking to your guns and believing in something so powerfully that when faced with death you still stnd firm. Its th same reason people died while fighting for civil rights. hey believed what they were preaching.
2006-11-14 07:07:35 · answer #5 · answered by david s 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To those who are religious, it is. God comes before family or anything else in a religious person's life.
Blessed Be
2006-11-14 05:37:54 · answer #6 · answered by Celestian Vega 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How do people sacrifice their lives for the people they love, while they don't want to die for religion or God?
2006-11-14 05:33:20 · answer #7 · answered by AG 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't worry half as much about people who are willing die for their stupid religious beliefs as I do for those willing to KILL for their stupid religious beliefs.
2006-11-14 10:13:09 · answer #8 · answered by iknowtruthismine 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋