From a religious perspective why is murder wrong?

Question

(any religion, but please state which)

I'm really looking for the reasoning behind, for example, the Commandment in the Abrahamic religions.

Answer 1

From a pagan perspective, we are all related to one another.. what I do to you, I also do to myself.

Answer 2

From a religious perspective well I am not religious but I do know alittle bit about what I have read in the bible *king james* and all it talks about is killing people. Stoning this person and stoning that person and how you are supposed to take your rebelious children to the city gates so everyone can stone the kid to death. Or how it was so cool for Moses group to wipe out whole cities so they could take over the land that was promised to them and were told not to leave any survivors except the virgins. Like I said I am not religious so I cant give a perspective religiously why it is wrong but personally I find it wrong since no one should take something that is not theirs and since someone elses life is someone elses then no one else should take it. The person being murdered once dead is dead and the ones left to suffer are the family. If someone were to kill one of my kids I wouldnt murder the person who did it but I would take out their eyes , pop their eardrums so they cant hear , cut out their tongue so they cant talk and cut off their arms and legs so they cant write anything or walk and before I did all that I would tell them to remember each day when they awake that they are like this for what they did. Just like I would be suffering for the loss they would suffer with their loss. They wouldnt be able to communicate or know if anyone was communicating with them and they wouldnt even be able to commit sucide. ALot of people might think that is sick but what good is it to take a murderer out of their misery by gasing them . I would want the bas tard to suffer.

Answer 3

I appologize I am going to make generalizations.

Religions are selective when it comes to killing. It is something really worth studying both through the texts of these religions and from a broader range of historical records.

In Christianity as a sampler, it says thou shalt not kill but Christians kill. What makes it murder?What I am about to say can apply to any religion though.

Demonizing other people and deminishing their status in some way like asserting ideas that another person or group is sub-human (that is such an ignorant word from every angle, sorry. It fits the type of people I am talking about and the situation) allows one to get around laws like thou shalt not kill or love thy neighbour as thy self. (WOW Idon't live near these guys so I can hate them...or they arn't like me so I can kill them. Ugly thinking)

Of course there is sel-defence as well. In the physical sense most of us probably agree it is instinct to fight for your life or someone elses life. Not unreasonable. The problem comes in when you start identifying a threat you determine serious that may be comming from a mental emotional source, as being life threatening. Anything can be justified then! Remember I am talking about reigious communities and religions themselves here please. Oh she is a witch! Burn her. Burning witches is an act of murder among other things.

Many people are not able to see such an act as murder and in the Christian churches of Europe at the time of the inquisition it was not only condoned, but they trained people how to mainipulate and torture individuals into confessions of being withches. It was being a warrior for God. Jesus must have been devistated and heart broken. I died for nothing...I couldn't teach these people anything...( several million men, woen and children were murdered durong this period, in fact an entire town of people was slaughtered in France. It was by far directed mainly at women though. A mass genocide. See the video 'The Burning Time' for and easy reference)

Any sane person would know that is murder! Read the book 'Turning Evil', it talks about a real life situation where regular men started going out and slaughtering men, women and children as if they were going to work for the day. In some instances they killed people they had known all their lives even friends and then went home to have supper with their wives and families. Everyone should read that book. Especially people in the US right now.

Anyway, I wanted to bring this up because you don't need a religion to tell you right from wrong. You need empathy, love and compassion. Not to mention a conscience. Not everyone has a conscience apparently, it is a diagnosable chemical thing.


Dogma and manilulation of the group consciousness! Danger, danger!

Peace everyone! Always double check by thinking for yourself and give your conscience a hug a day!

Answer 4

From God's perspective, because it is said in the bible that no one dies with out his permission, then murder is still forgivable, because when someone is killed, God permitted the person to be killed. That is why when Jesus came, Jesus changed the idea of what is murder, murder now in the New testament is the same as thinking a bad thought about a person. it's not just action, you already commit murder by thinking.

Answer 5

It's a grave sin, because only God can take someone's life. When people say they KILLED, because there was no choice at all, don't believe! There's always a choice in every situation : to kill or to be killed. A person who really believes in God will rather die. And some people will kill. But then they take a responsibility of God! And no one has rights to do that.

Answer 6

In Buddhism, Murder or even killing of any animal or being is discouraged. This is because in the theory of reincarnation, Killing or Harming another being physically plants causes for us to be reborn with physical deformities in the long run.

In the short run, Killing causes pain to the friends and family of the victim we killing.

In Buddhism, the is only 3 golden rules...

Not to hurt anyone ( phyiscally, verbally and emotionally )
To Be kind to everyone,
And to keep our minds and hearts as pure as possibile in response to being in harmony with other people

Since murder goes against all three, it is wrong in terms of Buddhism

Answer 7

Jewish & Christian

Genesis 9:5-6


5 “And I will require the blood of anyone who takes another person’s life. If a wild animal kills a person, it must die. And anyone who murders a fellow human must die. 6 If anyone takes a human life, that person’s life will also be taken by human hands. For God made human beings[a] in his own image.

Answer 8

Catholic theologian.

God is the giver of life. He is the creator of the soul. It is HIS right to assign life and death, NOT ours. To kill, to take away the life that God gave is to usurp His prerogatives. NOT SMART!

Last time somebody tried to do the equivalent of "Shove over stupid and lemme show ya how it oughta be done" , all it got was Lucifer dumped on pretty heavy. Why would you want to get the same treatment for what is essentially the same dumba** stunt, ie, trying to be as God.

Answer 9

From a religious perspective, murder is wrong because God
has said, "Thou shalt not kill." Taking a life is ONLY right for
God to do because He is the one who Gave life.

Answer 10

To take a life for no reason what so ever is wrong. To do so by accident or in protection of ones self,family or country is not. God did not make us stupid....Common since was a gift. God is my father and best friend. I have no label.

Answer 11

Baptist read Gn 4:8-10 or Gn 9:6 Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.