Is it a coincidence that the 3 religions who believe in the same God, i.e. Christianity, Judaism and Islam,...

Question

have been the most violent bunch of people down the centuries? Why is that?

For those who say Islam's God is different from that of Christianity and Judaism, please see:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abrahamic_religion

"Abrahamic religions is a term of Islamic/Muslim origin[1][2] adopted to designate the three monotheistic religions – Judaism, Christianity, and Islam[1][2] – which claim Abraham (Hebrew "Avraham" אַבְרָהָם ; Arabic "Ibrahim" ابراهيم ) as a part of their sacred history......."

Answer 1

People often use God as an excuse to be violent, when God had nothing to do with what they choose to do. People are not perfect, but God is, but we can not understand how he is or why he is.

People do many bad things, and say they did it for God when in truth they were just promoting their own will onto others. When a mentally ill person kills someone and say God told me to do it nobody believe her/him, but when a bunch of not so sane people get together and kill many people because they believe that God told them to do it then, people put the blame on the religion that they are associated with and not on the people doing the killing or violent acts.

Answer 2

The term "God" is a job description.
God has a name, form, qualities and pastimes, which are all completely transcendental and spiritual. We like to project mundane limitations onto the Supreme, however He is not subject to our puny speculations.
The three religions you quote are however unanimous in their lack of detail about the actual name and form of the Lord. They also have long and painful histories of killing one another in the name of their religions, something which is still going on to this day.
I'm sure knowledgeable Islamic scholars would have a major problem with people blowing themselves up and declaring it an act of jihad. Jihad implies spiritual introspection, to conquer ones own mind and bodily gratification. What possible appeal would the Lord have for suicide bombing? It is simply a horrible sinful act of violence.
And additionally, what appeal would the Lord have for the bombing of towns and villages full of women and children by the "good guys'. Again, senseless acts of violence are not spiritual or pleasing to the Lord.

There are scriptures which detail the form and pastimes of the Lord, however they are not widely known in the mainstream.

For example, I quote from the oldest scripture in existence, called the Sri Brahma Samhita verse 1

ishvara parama Krishna
sac cid ananda vigraha
anadir adir Govinda
sarva karana karanam

"Krishna, who is known as Govinda, is the Supreme Godhead. He has an eternal blissful spiritual body. He is the origin of all. He has no other origin, and He is the prime cause of all causes. "

Answer 3

Christians believe in the same God as Judaism,not Islam.<><

Answer 4

I don't know about being the most violent. If you are referring to the Roman Catholics in times past, then you would have a point. Don't forget the human factor too. It doesn't take religion to make a war, though as we are seeing with the Muslims, it can.

But all those barbarian tribes from the northern europe area, and all those barbarian tribes from the east invading Europe, why aren't people hating barbarians?

Answer 5

They do not worship the same God. What they have in common is that they are all monotheistic, meaning they believe in only one ultimate God. If they believed in the same God, why would Christians and Muslims have been killing each other the last 1000+ years?

Answer 6

Let me just clear this up, Muslim (which is Islam) do not worship the same god. And I would have to say out of the three, Muslims have created the most violence in history.

Answer 7

I believe that Jews and Christians believe in the same God. Islam's God is different.

Answer 8

No. Its perfectly normal for the God is the essence and ultimate goal of all religions of the world, irrespective of the three most violent religions of the world for they first believe in man as god-incarnate and not directly in god and try to use violent means to spread their religion. For there is no room for violence in a religion.

Answer 9

Since when did Christians and Muslims share the same God? Never heard of Allah at my church.

Answer 10

Because in my opinion, the one central tenet in all 3 of those versions of christianity is that one male god rules over all through "specialy chosen" men who then want total controll over everybody else. Also, because they have to force their ways onto others, nobody who really thinks for themselves would buy the crap theyre selling.