Why do people kill each other over religious differences?

Question

I mean, don't these people think that they will go to hell? Is there something I am missing in the Bible that says this is ok?

Answer 1

Because they worship religion, instead of worshiping God.

Answer 2

No killing is not wrong, according to the bible. But people do not kill each other simply due to religious reasons. People kill each other for resources, ignorance, hatred, bad attitudes, differences in appearance and culture. Trying to blame everything on religion is oversimplistic and blatantly untrue. Man is to blame, not religion. This is a fact christianity has always supported in the doctrine of: "The Fall" That man is selfish and capable of great evil and needs to change. Is it not true that horrendous atrocities were commited under socialist/communist states which happened to be atheistic?

Opehilia (below) that is taken completely out of context. And could be referring to a multitiude of situations. Also see the Ten Commandments. That is a universal guide of morals. Particulary: Thou Shalt not Kill.

Answer 3

It's about illiminating the opponants

There are but two alternatives. Genocide or Conversion.

Stalin executed ALL persons of power who opposed him.

You either CONVERT the masses to your point of view or get rid of those who prevent conversion.

Hindus don't convert
Jews don't convert
Buddhists don't convert

Muslims and Atheists do

They are you're targets if you are not MUSLIM or ATHEIST

Atheists and Christains are your targets if you are not an Atheist or Christian

By eliminating the active opposition you are left with only the passive oppostion.

The PASSIVE can be controlled without conversion for a while.

Answer 4

I don't get it either.

I suppose they just have great faith that what they're doing is right, which probably caused by a negative experience during a time in their life when they were vulnerable, such as when they were young or when they were bereaved. In my opinion, this can always be helped by effective psychotherapy. It's easy to take a few words in the Bible or the Qu'ran out of context. For example, there are verses in both that talk about people being killed for being of the wrong faith, but there are also messages in both that tell us that we MUST NOT DO THAT. It's easy to be brainwashed if you're given a book, told it is the truth repeatedly and are then taught about only certain parts of it, without them having a basis in reality. For example:

"Nancy, Jack and Bobby were very good friends. When a new boy called Phillip joined the school, Jack and Bobby both made friends with him. Nancy felt left out and thought:
'I hate Phillip. I was friends with Jack and Bobby first, and he stole them from me. I wish he would leave the school so I could have my friends back. At lunch time i'm going to be really nasty to him.'
At lunch time Nancy saw Jack, Bobby and Phillip in the playground, and they called her over. Phillip said hello and explained that he had been very upset about leaving his old school and he missed all his friends. He asked if she would be his friend, and she realised that she had just been being silly. They made friends and the four of them were best friends for life"

Now, there's a cute little story that teaches about making friends, about being nice and about putting your anger aside. However, if I chose only to talk about the little speech Nancy made at the start of the story - just as some people choose to base entire sermons around one Bible verse - it would have given off a completely different message, about bullying people you don't like, making people feel left out, jealousy and revenge.

If someone is going to be religious, it is their DUTY to understand their religion as best they can. Do not simply look at the most well-known portions of your religious books or church history - you have to look at everything, because there are always going to be people in the world who will try to use religion for their own benefit, by selecting only those parts of the teachings that will help them, and ignoring the rest. People need to protect themselves against such things.

Answer 5

This is mostly seen in Abrahamic Monotheists who believe that if everybody they see doesn't submit to their god willingly, that they should beat it into them. Believers of gods other than theirs' are "evil" and "demonic" so they don't bother worrying about the moral implications of murdering them. Atheist non-believers are part of some secular communist conspiracy that must be obliterated, etc. At the source of all religious intolerance, there is monotheism.

Even if all the pagans and atheists were obliterated, Monotheists would then begin warring with themselves over the righteousness of their own compartmentalized denomenations. Just look at Sunnis vs Shiites, Catholics vs Protestants, Jews vs. Muslims vs. Christians etc. All of these Abrahamic religions believe in the SAME DAMN GOD but bicker with eachother over the semantics of their practices as passed down from priest to priest. Every time a King Henry, Muhammed or a Martin Luther comes along, the message of the sect changes ever so slightly. These minor changes however, create differences, and differences are what intolerance and prejudice is all about.

For any monotheist to claim truth, he must silence all opposition to his creed. He must identify anybody who thinks differently about the moral implication of buttons, divorce, red meat fridays, etc as something evil because its different. For monothestic truth to be maintained, all cpntradictory monotheistic "lies" must be warred upon.

The endgame of monotheism is one man clutching his own personal bible atop a wasteland of corpses where all opposing faiths have been murdered. Should this man ever develop a crisis of faith, change of mind or multiple personality disorder, he would then likely kill himself.

The bible predicts the apocalypse because by definition, all monotheists seek to murder the world. They can't change all of the people's minds all of the time... so the next best thing is to just murder them all and lord over the corpses.

Answer 6

A) People don't read there own damned book.
B) some times, the book tells them to. "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live"

I've had that quoted to me, and was then told that if they thought they could get away with it, they would kill me.

Answer 7

because they have religious differences. and some people think if they kill people for their religion, theyll still go to heaven.

Answer 8

Try reading the Book of Joshua sometime.

You'll find it both enlightening and appalling.

Answer 9

Tell me about it. It is so sad. Jesus said that wars will be among us. He was right. He told that many people will do a lot of bad things in His name. : )

Answer 10

Stupidity comes in different colors.