Considering all the wars that have been started in God and Allah's name, how many people have been killed because of someone else's feverent belief in a religion or doctrine.
Let's not forget that many people who call themselves Christians hide behind the supposed good purpose - only to live immoral lives by doing drugs, having gay sex, and screwing around on their wives.
So if religion is the answer to morality, how is it that is seems to only make matters worse?
2007-01-07 02:25:44 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Fitz - Hitler was NOT an Atheist, he was Catholic. And I completely agree with the message, religion is what's stopping us from world peace.
2007-01-07 02:36:58 · answer #1 · answered by untilyoucamealong04 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think a lot of people do hide behind the facade of religion to divert attention from their own misdeeds. ("How could So-and-so POSSIBLY be involved in something so vile! He/She is such a religious person!") However, I also believe that many of these acts are the result of impossibly high religious standards that they set for themselves, and are unable to live up to. In a presumed act of penance, they become even MORE zealous in their beliefs. The evil is unleashed when conflicting zealots oppose one another.
2007-01-07 02:32:34 · answer #2 · answered by James L 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well i believe that religion in a sense like many other things (a handshake) is a way to see into a person. In a sense to tell there background and see how they would view and we will say "topic in politics" so that the population can vote how there area sees things so that there leader sees how they want him to. but immorality is only a factor of that groups ways not the religion its self. My main point that they are unrelated things that coincide as one you see.
2007-01-07 02:38:51 · answer #3 · answered by dudedawg20 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Human Nature is the cause of immorality, and it's also the weakness within human nature that makes some follow religion.
2007-01-07 02:28:35 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's the misinterpretation of the religion for personal gains, not the religion itself.
For instance, one person once asked:
Can the Verse 25:52 (do Jihad with Quran)which was revealed in Mecca interpritared to bring about a political revolution/not to obey constitution(obey not the disbelievers)in a country where Muslims are not in power?
Answer:
The verse reads: "and therefore do not obey the disbelievers (i.e. non-Muslims) and strive against them with this (i.e. the Qur'an), a great strive".
The verses preceding explain that although the truth has been clearly brought forward to people, yet they do not accept it. The verse is addressing the Prophet (pbuh) in his capacity as a Messenger who is sent by God for the manifestation of the truth for the addressees). The verse directs the Prophet (pbuh) to strive with those who have not accepted the truth even after the truth has become manifest to them (disbelievers) and not to obey them. Obedience here means to follow the desires of disbelievers who wanted the Prophet (pbuh) to compromise his divine mission. Striving with the Qur'an (given that the verse is revealed in Mecca) means to attack their poor arguments with the firm arguments of the Qur'an. (This is just before the next phase of the mission of the Prophet, where he leaves the disbelievers because of their rejection of truth and then starts fighting with them as manifestation of God's punishment for those who reject a messenger of God).
As you can see the verse is not even remotely close to the idea of 'bringing political revolution in a country where Muslims are not in power'.
Answered by:
Abdullah Rahim
June 23, 2006
God knows best
Peace and Love.
2007-01-07 02:41:06 · answer #5 · answered by mil's 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Religion itself is what defines morality, us non-believers have to make do with ethics. So, in a way, immorality is also created by religion.
2007-01-07 02:27:45 · answer #6 · answered by dane 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Asking humanity isn't a good start.
After all, we're the ones that have started wars.
Unfortunatly, some questions are better left unanswered.
2007-01-07 02:27:53 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
with the aid of your standards of morality i don't. yet i don't inevitably share your experience of morality and if the societies we live in fee freedom of thought why might desire to I share your (or anybody else's) experience of morality? Morality and ethics are strange subjects besides, consistently open to interpretation, misrepresentation and manipulation with the aid of people who happen to be slightly cleverer than those around them, it would not elect faith to reason a challenge, funds reasons greater "ethical lapses" besides and consistently has.
2016-10-30 05:58:48 · answer #8 · answered by speth 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If it wasn't because there are some religious principles still left on earth, the word "morality " would not exist not even in the dictionary.
2007-01-07 02:33:31 · answer #9 · answered by edcaimo 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Your religious biases are showing. Just look at the items that you describe as immoral.
I think religion is best at helping prople deal with mortality ....not morality.
2007-01-07 02:28:28 · answer #10 · answered by grapeshenry 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋