Why are Muslims and Christians always killing and murdering each other?

Question

This raises an important issue. Over the centuries, many violent deeds have been done in the name of religion. People often wonder how this can be. It occurs when religion like Christian exits as a set of doctrines, ideas, rituals, and experience divorced from any deep and expansive sense of empathy or compassion. Without empathy, people’s religious ideas become yet another means of seeing others as “different” and distance oneself from other. Feeling disconnected in this way, people devalue others, like Christians and Muslim do to each other in the end leading to war. Driven by intolerance ideas and tendency to inflict their views on other.

Many Christians will clam they practice compassion and empathy but that is ludicrous. The doctrines of the bible are intolerant to other religion claiming that “any religion or people that don’t accept Christ as his savor will go to hell”. The backlash of this statement is significant since it reject other religion as false, which leads to intolerance and finally war.

Answer 1

War is driven by politics and not by religion.

Often, religion is taken as a catalyst for war, though the actual culprit is definitely the politics of power.

Christianity came into popularity because of warriors like Constantine, who denounced his faith and accepted Christ as his Saviour when he won an almost lost battle. Though Christ preached compassion and epitomized tolerance, his new followers believed in war and conquest. This led to many battles and conquests.

Here it is evident that Christianity had nothing to do with the politics of power. This bloodshed eventually died down once 'serious' thinkers came into being and questioned these people.

Muslims were also a similar kind of people living in very closely knit groups and constantly in threat by, well, Christians and by other radical groups.

It is good to note that most Christians have simmered down and have actually become somewhat 'humble' compared to their predecessors. This is because many Christians were converted from other faiths and carried a lot of influences from those faiths. Also, Christianity sprang from different regions (Rome, Syria, Russia) and hence accepted change. The reason why we have Roman Catholics, Latin Catholics, Orthodox Christians, etc is purely politics. The politics of power and territory.

The Muslims have not really changed much because of very stringent rules and laws which forbid change (like the Holy Quran can only be taught in Arabic, etc). There are only two main 'types' of Muslims (again these came because of the politics of power!)

Because of little or no change or acceptance to change, Muslims still remain similar to their forefathers and are only stopped by their adoptive societies. In those societies which do not have any outside influence, the struggle continues. Unfortunately, It is these Muslims which drive today's terrorists. They fear they may lose their 'brothers' to other societies.

I do hope they actually sit and read the Holy Quran properly and try to read between the lines instead of listening to the gibberish passed on to them by their war clan forefathers.

Answer 2

Well, the Christians who are killing Muslims and the Muslims who are killing Christians are not true believers, because neither Christianity nor Islam states that people from other religions must be killed.

But the problem here is that some extremists in both religions are exploiting young people and filling their minds with lies about other religions, and they even grow extremism and aggressiveness in their minds. Of course this will lead to terror against other religions.

So people who are committing crimes in the world, are not true Christians nor true Muslims.

All religions call for the submission to GOD. And we are all humans, so we must respect eachother. We must respect the souls of others whether they are of the same religion or not.

GOD created all humans, so the humans must respect GOD's creation in eachother.

Hope religious terror and extremism ends, so that we can live in a better and peaceful world.

GOD bless you

Sincerely
Randy

Answer 3

This is brother against brother. It started with Cain and Abel.
Then Isaac and Ishmael and they continue to fight. Why does the world hate the Jewish people? Only Bible believing Christians love the Jewish people. They are hated by all religions that refuse to believe the Holy Bible. A Christian religion without the Bible is not Christian. The Bible is either the Word of God or it is the word of men. I have never met a man in my 62 years of living that was intelligent enough to write the Bible. Only God could word the Bible as God dictated the words to His prophets. Most assuredly the God of the Holy Bible knew the future because all of prophecy is coming true or has come true.

In this generation we will see God reveal the truths of His Holy Word.

Answer 4

True Muslims & Christians arn't the ones killing each other my friend, they cause the death of innocent YES! but it is not the true believers who are doing this.

The hatred that is caused by the lack of understanding of each other is what is driving alot of people to kill each other. For example, Christians say that they will give the other cheek when they get hit and then after 911 they go around the world slapping everyone. in the other hand if you go to any Muslim and tell them this "Did you know that your prophet peace be upon him called the Chrsitians (our cousins) and asked to show mercy on them?" I guarantee you 98% will even call you a liar and 100% wont believe so.

Answer 5

Analyze history and you will find nearly all wars are not about religion at all. Its normally about power and wealth. Until recently most countries were ruled by dynasties (founded originally by some warlord), so those rulers would go to war to extend their dominion etc. All mostly human selfishness, greed and pride. The worse wars in terms of numbers hurt and killed were in the last few centuries. The two world wars were about nationalistic rivalry.

Some people have tried to impose their religious ideas by violence. But certainly in doing that they are going directly against Christ and the apostles' teaching. Islam has a political agenda in it, and Mohammed's example of using war to extend religious control, so it should be harder theoretically for them to get free of war as a tool for extending Islam. However, in practice, human selfishness, pride and intolerance means that people of all sorts will often use violence to impose beliefs - whether religious, philosophical or atheist. Welcome to the world of sinners.

Answer 6

Those people who do kill, Muslims, Christians or any other. Do it for their own gain not for the religion, and they use religion as the reason to support their purpose.

For example those who are killing each other in Israel, are doing it for land and country, but they use religion as the reason for their motive. In Iraq, Muslims are killing other Muslims for the land, aka power. In Darfur, Arabs are killing each others. Again for power, not religion. Just some examples of many more around history and land.

Answer 7

The doctrines of Christianity ARE intolerant of other religions. You are correct there. That's not because Christians made it so. It's because God made it so. And exclusiveness of this kind is not in any way unique to Christianity, btw.

Christianity does not ANYWHERE endorse murdering anyone who will not convert, however, and anyone who uses it as an excuse for such things is in deep sin.

Answer 8

No, it all started with Isaac and Ishmael.

And PEOPLE have done evil in the name of religion. Religion does not require it. Not even Christianity, or Islam.

Answer 9

I can't understand why God would send a person to torment for eternity because He didn't like that person's religious views. Seems kind of unaccepting and hateful don'tcha think?

Answer 10

Its obvious you have not been reading your newspaper lately and its obvious you don't know much about history either.

Pastor Art