In all countries,everywhere on Earth..people are killling each other..for the sake of God,culture and much more.Just look what's happenning in the UK,a country who allowed Muslims to build their communities within the older british communities and now they are attacking their host countries,even going to kill them..for the sake of their religion..why?
2007-01-19 14:45:28 · 15 answers · asked by Religious R 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Well..I am dispaointed with the answers coming up,what i want to say to emphasize is where are we heading..the radicals muslims want the SHARIA law..in place in BRITAIN and they hate democracy and the worst is it growing and growing so why you people are saying we are going to be doomed if we stop praying??? Or if we dont beleive in God..we are killing God..that's what we are doing..killing the belief,the hope everything.
2007-01-19 15:27:23 · update #1
Yes murders are going on everywhere..Americans are doing in the name of democracy..radicals muslims in the name of Allah...I think God shouldnt have give us the power to think..the conscience..the power to see him..we saw him the way we want and impose our view of him to our fellow humans
2007-01-19 21:02:31 · answer #1 · answered by Kaushall 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not necessarily.
The idea that people are killing each other in the name of religion, while a popular one, is not the case. People are killing each other for resources. That's what wars are always about. Religion and patriotism are just nifty ways to sell a war. If religion were to go away, we'd still have jingoistic sentiment to rely upon.
Another point is that religion is of great value to a great many people. They take comfort from it, and it helps them to regard the world as a more predictable place.
Humans are biologically compelled to believe in something. It is a survival tool (it evolved, sorry). We all operate on the basis of belief, and much of what we believe we have not verified. So, religion is just another horse in the parade.
2007-01-19 23:07:46 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just look at how well the countries that have athiests for leaders like China, Russia under Stalin, Cambodia under Pol Pot......
Just how much effect not teaching the Bible in school and the 10 commandments has done in our society.... :-(
If you want to learn about faith and God and Jesus start with
Matthew 22
36"Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?"
37Jesus replied: " 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.'
38This is the first and greatest commandment. 39And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'
40All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments."
and
Matthew 5
43 “You have heard the law that says, ‘Love your neighbor’[r] and hate your enemy.
44 But I say, love your enemies![s] Pray for those who persecute you!
45 In that way, you will be acting as true children of your Father in heaven. For he gives his sunlight to both the evil and the good, and he sends rain on the just and the unjust alike.
2007-01-19 22:56:57 · answer #3 · answered by Pilgrim in the land of the lost 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Religion gives us the motivation to keep going and progressing in a positive direction. Without it we would be no better than ants or any other hive living creature. I'm not religious but I can see lots of things in my every day life that have religion woven into them that keep me striving to better myself and keep living and bringing offspring into this world.
So what if your religion isn't like mine or someone else's. I can deal with it, its the fanatics that go way too far and lose themselves in the religion and dont get the messages from thier script. They take it way to literally and dont realize that we dont live in the time when these sects were formed. Fanatics need to get a grip and look at what we have become and have the potential to become.
When Christ said "this is my body" while handing out bread, his deciples didnt turn cannibal on him, they got the message he was trying to convey... Damn fanatics.
2007-01-19 22:55:04 · answer #4 · answered by jwelsh1021 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes! The world would be MUCH better off without religion!
Obviously killing would still happen, but the numbers would fall dramatically with religion gone!
2007-01-19 22:51:06 · answer #5 · answered by Bunz 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
People kill because of their religious beliefs. You need Jesus - not religion. He is the way, the truth, and the life.
John 14:6
Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
2007-01-19 22:54:19 · answer #6 · answered by childofGod 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes. But then we wouldn't be the crazy humans we are. We might be better or we might be worse. Since humans aren't going to change any time soon, I wouldn't waste time pondering it too much.
2007-01-19 23:16:37 · answer #7 · answered by quietwater 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes... especially the religion of Atheism... just look at how all the Atheists gang up on Christians and attack and persecute them... it's so terrible... even killing them for the sake of their religion... why?
2007-01-19 22:49:44 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
No I do not think so. Then we would have to just kill each other for capitol gain. And think up another excuse for our actions.
2007-01-19 22:52:45 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You asked a good question. Just between you and me, you forgot to capitalize the w in the first word of your question.
You bet it would.><>
2007-01-19 22:50:13 · answer #10 · answered by CEM 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋