When, and/or to what extent, should religion (any particular organized religion or religious precept) be used as a guidelines for war?
2007-10-15 15:36:54 · 8 answers · asked by khanh1023 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
for example the war in Iraq and afghanistan were motivated by religion (Christianity and Judaism) when Bush declares them as crusades . Many strong christian and Jewish religious groups between 2001-2004 saw it as fulfillment of biblical and Torah proficies. There were even totally new radio and tv stations broadcasted for this.This website is an example of prophecies promotion thru religious conflicts.
Look at the right side of this website,second banner (it has israel flag and the phrase biblical prophecies) .
Minister John hagee himself is a strong war supporter,always active in rallying and collecting funds to fund terrrorism
http://www.jhm.org/
And muslims saw it as an attempt to wipe out their religion and religious values.
Of course all that is false . There are no profecies in that,but religions,any religion even the ones you dont know about,are peaceful . And only evil souls interpret them according to their satanic inclinations.
May peace prevail . Amen !
2007-10-15 15:44:45 · answer #1 · answered by Chakat 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Never. When Jesus was here He said there will be no more wars led by God, until the end times. In that time, it wil be the angels fighting the evil one. God is in control. He created all, and everything. It's sad all the wars in the name of Christianity, especially Christians killing Christians. God did orchestrate Holy wars in the Old Testament. But not without sending prophets asking the Jews to turn from worshipping idols. He would allow them to be taken over. Then He would orchestrate a war to take them out of captivity. The Jews would be back on top. Then they would forget God and this happened many times. That's why we need Jesus. We all are a stiff neck people. We forget God sometimes.
2007-10-15 22:48:08 · answer #2 · answered by Elizabeth 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I've always believed that religion was and is the root cause of hate and discontent throughout the world. It has nothing to do with ones spirituality. All humans are basically good beings. They don't need religion to tell them how to do good and avoid evil. Picture how peaceful this world will without organized religion and leave each individual to deal privately with his/her own god.
2007-10-15 22:50:19 · answer #3 · answered by Don S 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Any religion supports violence. Only those crazy guys using religion for their purposes. That s evil. Every religion search for spirituality , a relation with God, peace and love to all mankind.
No, noway religion must be used for the wrong and bad purposes of a minority.
2007-10-15 22:44:46 · answer #4 · answered by nikkita 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the name of religion,people want to kill us,they say it on TV every chance they get,they hit us on 9-11.It should be such an outcry from Americans to send every person here that claims to be Muslims back to Muslim Land.
2007-10-15 22:55:31 · answer #5 · answered by Heidie 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Weeellll, when your president claims that God told him to invade Iraq (for oil...coz' you know it's true) I think that's a good indicator that any "religious" guidelines there are have been violated.
2007-10-15 22:41:17 · answer #6 · answered by GoodJuJu2U 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Never. Remember: separation of church and state (supposedly). But, obviously, it is not like that in other parts of the world.
2007-10-15 22:45:54 · answer #7 · answered by HachiMachi 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
in times of our lives is at stake. if some leader wants to change our "way of life".
2007-10-15 22:43:37 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋