How can people believe that their God wants them to blow themselves up in a crowd of women and children?

Question

I can understand that people want to serve their religious and spiritual leaders, but how can they truly believe that someone that they think is the creator of world wants them to kill women and children because they worship the same god in a different way?

Hey Nicholas H, I didn’t mention Islam, did I?
Why did you assume that, when as you said “This is common in all religions”

Answer 1

they are misguided and God created some peple just for the hellfire.

Answer 2

There are zealots and fanatics in every religion. Most people who think this is an Islamic thing is uneducated in history.It is easy to focus on one religions fanatical group because it is foremost in the media and the propaganda spread by governments for their own purpose. Look back at the way so called "Christians" wiped out races of people in the name of God.The only reason the woman and children of earlier times weren't bombed is because they weren't invented yet.Then again Hitler did all his stuff in the name of Christianity. In the history of religious killings the Christians lead as killers by a long shot.All Islamics are not killers and their religious beliefs are not so far off the rest of religious teachings.The Bible is open to interpretation just like all other books of religious teachings.And not all Germans believed in Hitlers interpretation of the Bible either. Charles Manson had his interpretation of the Bible and killed because of it.Almost all serial killers have found their reasons to kill in the Christian Bible .There are fanatics in every religion and it is so wrong to condemn an entire society because of them.

Answer 3

How can people believe that their God wants them to walk the streets of Baghdad, get blown up in a crowd of women and children and get shot by snipers?

I can understand that people want to serve their religious and spiritual leaders, but how can they truly believe that someone that they think is the creator of world wants them to to die or kill muslims because they worship the same god in a different way and don't want us to dictate to them.

Do you see what the changing of a few words can do?

Answer 4

That is what religion does and why it is such a vile thing. From childhood people get indoctrinated into believing absurdities. They get used to not asking questions and simply accepting what they are told by their religious leaders. This usually ends in a small number of followers ending up with a bomb strapped to their bodies, killing prostitutes because they hears the voice of Jesus telling them to or any number of historical and current events of violence which has a religious root.

Answer 5

This is common in all religions, not just Islam. Look at the Spanish Inquisition, look at the crusades, look at the people who followed Charles Manson. THEY ALL were able to get people to murder in the name of the Christian God. This is common in all religions. If you gain someone's complete and utter trust, and then tell them that God wants them to kill someone, they do it sometimes.


UPDATE: Are you serious??????? It was a completely logical conclusion. When was the last time you heard of a Christian "blow[ing] themselves up in a crowd of women and children"???? Muslims do this every single day. It was only logical for me to assume that you were speaking of Muslims.

Answer 6

The leaders always pick people with dead end futures to do their dirty work. They promise them a reward when they are dead for doing it. If such a reward exists why don't the leaders jump at the chance to do it themselves? The leaders always use the excuse that they are needed here on Earth to continue doing their deeds, yet they are always scores of people waiting to take their place.

Answer 7

The same as the God of Christians want them to kill, for the sake of peace. Christan's follow a false God, Read the words of Jesus Christ and learn the truth.

Answer 8

somebody who will kill themselves in pursuit of a political or religious reason (regardless of the undeniable fact that erroneous) would be many stuff, yet they do no longer look to be a coward. certainly, in the main appropriate circumstances (and while the reason being a rightful one) many would describe this variety of individual as a martyr. there is no longer something remotely cowardly approximately dealing with loss of life with equanimity, and till we admit this we are able to by no ability comprehend the phenomenon of suicide-bombings (a phenomenon, by the type, which started out between the Tamils of Sri Lanka in the Nineteen Eighteen Eighties, and not between Muslims in any respect). i locate it ironic that most of the folk who would describe terrorists and suicide-bombers as 'cowards' would additionally compliment the 'braveness' of yankee infantrymen, with their computerized weapons and armour-plated tanks and unmaned drones.

Answer 9

They believe that it is for the better good. those innocent bystanders will be spared in the after life if they lived their lives accordingly. These people are living in somewhat desperate times and are going to desperate actions, but they are fighting for what they truly believe is right
To and outsider I am sure your beliefs look just as stupid and ridiculous.

Answer 10

My belief is that they don't believe that themselves really. I think some people just want to kill others. Plain & simple. They interpret some passage as an ok to kill others and run with it. It's always just a sad rationalization. They're not religious at all, they're using their religion to carry out their own demented agendas. A God or religion just happens to be viewed as sacred so it's a fairly decent excuse. It's so much easier to say "My God said to kill you" instead of saying "I'm a loon and I just want to blow innocent people up".

Answer 11

How can people believe that some great all-knowing male figurehead created the universe and everything in it?

This is the question that should begin to clarify the answer you are looking for.