For the most part, it is the individual who should be held accountable..not their religion,correct?

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Bring on the Vicious answers..but when Im right,Im right.. (RIGHT?)
This is what I'm sick and tired of hearing:

-Catholic priests molest young boys
- Mormons are inbred & have tons of kid
-Christians are "holyrollers" and believe they're above everyone else
- Muslims are terrorists

...And So on.. I could name these things all day.

Why are people so stereotypical? When i hear a priest has molested a young boy, I don't think..Oh, he's Catholic.. Instead,
I feel sorrow for the boy, and hope the man gets what is coming to him.

We are all from different religions, but we believe in a higher power nonetheless (if we consider ourselves religious/spiritual)
There are differences in our beliefs and titles of historical/biblical people..BUT..

Shouldn't we be judged by our personal character, our beliefs that led to our actions, our morals, and our awareness??

Feel free to disagree,just please explain! I'd love to hear another side...

Answer 1

You are half right. If a religion preaches one thing and some screwball misinterprets what was said, causing some kind of serious incident, the leaders of that religion should, maybe, choose more carefully their words.

Many religions tell people to kill other people for having different views like the jewish, christian, and muslim religions do. Deuteronomy is present in all 3 of their bibles, and it lists about 20 reasons to kill your neighbor, including having sex with someone you're not married to. Look for paragraphs that end in, " they must die. You must purge the evil from among you."

I believe in freedom. I believe people should be able to do whatever they want, as long as they don't hurt anybody else, or infringe on their freedoms. Killing someone for having sex with whomever they choose is faschism, ya know, like the nazis.

There are a lot of stupid people that actually believe that god said that, and now they want to be terrorists.

And what about, " first for a jew then for a gentile," or " gods chosen people." God likes me better, because I'm jewish. Not the belief system, they are talking about the race. That is the most racist thing that you can possibly say.

I believe in god, but my gods are not bigots, thank you.

Boom, reppin' 206

Answer 2

Yes, you're right. However, I think the religion (both the institution and the theology) should be held accountable for their reactions to the failings of their members.

The Catholic Priest Molester stereotype hasn't been helped any by the Catholic Church's failure to deal with paedophilia harshly enough - a number of the priests were just shuffled from parish to parish.

And, to take an extreme example, the hatemongering of the Westboro Baptist twits should rightly be ostracized both on the institutional and theological level. The Baptist Church as an institution wants nothing to do with the Phelpses, and most rational Christians reject their message of hate, even if they believe that homosexuality is a sin.

Answer 3

The problem is that if the religion these people practice and believe in preach such behaviors or even lead to them, the religion is a large part of the problem. If your holy book in which you believe in and would die for tells you that every other religion is false, and it's followers are heathens, then the religion is the source. Is it stereotypical to say that Christians feel they are better than an atheist? The Christian should believe this because the book in which he read and the God in which he believes tells him this is so. When you live by a faith or book, it becomes your character, your actions such as avoiding certain 'sins' will become a part of who you are.

Now when it comes to an individual obviously no one follows anything completely. Someone that doesn't agree with certain laws and rules will rebel, and in turn, leave the faith or religion. It is sort of a cause effect relationship.

Answer 4

Actually I think both have to accept responsibility for what is done. First the person must because well this is the real world! You must be accountable for what you do!
Second the religion must be held accountable for some of it because they are the ones that are to be guiding these sick people!

If someone under your command screws up you do take some heat for it! That is the burdens of command!

The problem is the religion doesn't teach accountability they teach all you need to do is accept Jesus and all is better! No it is NOT all better!
Mouthing words after you do something evil doesn't wipe away the evil you did! It also doesn't help the people or person you hurt!

Answer 5

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Answer 6

Correct....the person is responsible for their actions...not their church/organized religious body. Thousands of young men and girls have been molested by Catholic priests.....but it is the same Church that gave the world such giants as Pope John Paul II, Mother Teresa of Calcutta, Dorothy Day, Francis of Assisi, Oskar Shindler (saved hundreds of Jews from the death camps during the Holocaust), Cesar Chavez -- founder of the United Farm Workers and countless others whose Catholic faith prompted them to do great things.

Answer 7

You are right and eventually all will have to answer for themselves. There is no religion which is free from sin because there is no person who is free from sin. Jesus said that all would know his disciples by the love they had amongst themselves and it is important that people be able to identify the true followers of Christ so that they can get on and stay on the road to life. So, how is a person to know about the whole religion by looking at flawed individuals?? We have to read the Bible for ourselves. We have to do this on a daily basis. We have to ask for God's holy spirit to help us to understand. We have to pray and ask God to lead us into truth and we have to also pray that he will help us to recognize it when we hear of it or see it. And, we have to be personally responsible each and every day for our words and actions so that we never lead anyone away from the truth that leads to everlasting life.

Answer 8

I agree...many people of religions dont commit crimes, its certain individuals of particualt religions who do...it has nothing to do with religion...a person can always stop his actions because "religion" wont physically force him and majority of the religions dont even preach hurting other...its the individuals fault and being A catholic priest just makes it worse because this is a man who preaches one thing and goes against it deceving the community

Answer 9

There are things in our lives, religion being one of them, that influence our way of thinking but, in the end, individuals are always responsible for their own actions.

To paint an entire group with the bad actions of a few is wrong.

Answer 10

Mostly I agree, yes. It is the individual that should be held accountable for his/her actions.

That doesn't mean that we shouldn't always try to figure out why a human being makes bad choices. Many bad choices are made caused by pressure from the outside world, society. And we are all part of that society.

Which for me also means that we should always look at ourselves. Society is as strong as it treats its weakest link. In the end, society is always partly to blame for any wrong or bad choice a member of that society makes. Which means, in the end we are all to blame, at least partly.

Mind you, I'm not saying (for example) that all Muslims are to be blamed for the few Muslim terrorists. I'm saying that we, the society as a whole, are to be blamed for it.