2007-11-12 08:27:40 · 27 answers · asked by lalalux33 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
According to the Christians: yes. Otherwise their cult's history would not be written in blood.
With the fall of the Roman Empire, the librarian of Alexandria was pulled off her carriage and skinned alive. Literacy dropped. Even the Pope had to have the Bible read to him. In the first crusade, Christians killed tens of thousands of people they called "infidels". The Children's Crusade (1212) caused the deaths of nearly 50,000 children. Preachers sentenced to death and executed thousands during the Inquisition (1233-1834) for heresy and witchcraft. There were the Salem witch trials (1692) in America. The 17th Century Thirty Years War (Catholics v. protestants) wiped out tens of millions in Europe. In the Taiping Rebellion in China in the 1850's a Christian cult started a war that resulted in the slaughter of twenty million people. In the Holocaust six million Jews were murdered. Muslims and Christians in Bosnia reached a death toll of over 250,000.
See what I mean?
2007-11-12 08:29:44 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 5⤋
No. The Bible (NT) forbids Christians to war. Matthew 5:38-40 8, 2 Cor. 10:3-5, Rom. 12:19-21 and the OT prophecies that the real faith of the final days is one which will learn war not greater. Micah 4:a million-5. Debbie
2016-09-29 02:40:24 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Christianity has traditionally accepted the fact there is such a thing as a just war if it satisfies the requirements. That is not the same as "justifying" war.
Islam does accept that war can be just and necessary as does Judaism.
2007-11-12 08:33:57 · answer #3 · answered by jakejr6 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
People use religion to justify war as well as racism and other evils. If religion was truly good, you couldn't justify such evils using religion. If religion was truly evil, you couldn't justify donating money and time to the poor.
You can justify whatever you want using religion, and I don't think that's a good thing. If people want to do something (anything from war to helping the poor) they can say they are doing it for their religion. I'm all for helping the poor, but would people still help support Katrina victims or cancer research if they didn't believe in God? Of course they would. Would people still kill people in the name of God if they weren't religious? I don't think so. (Obviously, killing would still happen, but I think it would be significantly less)
I suppose you could argue that fewer people would help the poor if there was no religion, also, but do you really want people who wouldn't be a responsible human without God participating in your religion?
I guess I'm saying religion can justify anything, but humans have to want it to happen first. So there is always an underlying incentive to invading a country or region, even if you say you are doing it in the name of God.
2007-11-12 08:41:09 · answer #4 · answered by Uh-oh 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
No religious belief justifies war or any kind of hate! Jesus said to love your enemy.
2007-11-12 08:38:43 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
In the Christian religion, no
David could not build the temple of God because of the blood that was on his hands. The people went to war because they refused to serve God to the obedience of their souls.
Jesus refuted this when he told Peter that "Anything that lives by the sword will die by it.
James put it that war comes only because the spirit of pride has overtaken man. If we are just in our obedience, we will be as Christ was, "not seeking to prove self"
2007-11-12 08:57:18 · answer #6 · answered by GodCares 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What if ever justifies war? but we still have them don't we. as far as that goes I think we can name a lot more secular wars than religious wars wanna try, lets see, the rev. war, the war of 1812, the Spanish America war, the civil war, the Napoleonic wars, WW1, ww2, Korea, Vietnam, Gulf 1, Gulf 2, would you like me to keep going?
2007-11-12 08:42:19 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
SURE! Otherwise we wouldn't buy that terrorism crap and actually understand each other
Thank God that you can justify anything if you put God in to it
So whiny mad sick and down right rotten people can enjoy the news saying the BS they want to hear like good old black comedy movies only live
But whats worse is the opposition....none....no firkin one cause the guys that see whats happening either turn a blind eye or use the "USE THEM SKILL"
2007-11-12 08:40:04 · answer #8 · answered by Drakulaz 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
No. But religion gives tremendous strength to fight for freedom to believe what a Muslim believes and worship and protect your land where you can freely practice his relgion. Religion teaches that fighting for your rights is a sacred duty of every Muslim and if he dies fighting in this duty his soul gets to go in heaven straight soon after it leaves the body and this is the highest goal of Muslim soul.
2007-11-12 08:43:11 · answer #9 · answered by majeed3245 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
In peacetime, people say no.
If someone is invading your country, your position on the subject will change dramatically.
2007-11-12 08:32:02 · answer #10 · answered by Richard F 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋