What is your opinion of people who murder others, then say they did it in the name of their God ???

Answer 1

its the worst alibi. cant they think of something original?

Answer 2

If enough people believe in a concept like God; we'll see murder. I cannot comprehend, after all that we know and have seen of religions and their followers, that we still do not quite grasp just how dangerous the ideas of God and absolute laws are.

Unchallengeable rules and unquestioning obedience are a recipe for disaster. In the same way that the religious earnestly and arrogantly fear for the souls of humanity, I fear for the future of humanity at all if religions do not begin to take a well deserved back seat.

But to answer your question: I think nothing of them. They're just a symptom of a larger disease. Humans are gullible and they're easily influenced or moved to disgusting acts in the name of an infallible law or posited supreme being. Religion makes people lose sight of what is important in this life to the point where this life doesn't matter at all.

But at base they're just pawns in a pernicious power game. That doesn't excuse their actions but it does give us a very good idea of what a powerful and evil influence religion is. I'm sure I can't be the only one that finds that repulsive and alarming.

Answer 3

Murder is murder. I'm no pacifist, yet to take a life in other than self defense is murder. I don't believe a just God would approve of murder. An all powerful God doesn't need you to Kill on his behalf to scare people into belief.
Killing in the name of God for other than the defense of your life and liberty is murder and a sin.
Heavy question for early morning over here in the colonies. Need more coffee.

Answer 4

Opinion? Misguided, at best. Unnecessary, by my personal lights.

Now, from a broader perspective, and not such a personal one, I'm going to look at terminology.

First, to distinguish between *murder* and *kill*. The law does that, and so do most religions. Murder is willful, intentional killing "with malice aforethought" and without any of the many exceptions that render it less than murder. Those exceptions start with defense of one's person & family and sometimes property, and continue on all the way to licensed killing, such as that done by soldiers or police as a necessary part of their duties.

As for me, from a religious standpoint, while I consider that the population of the planet is about three times its carrying capacity--and hence rapidly devolving in quality of society, life, and ecology--my religion teaches that every life (human or otherwise) is born of the Goddess, and therefore in order to take any life, Her permission must first be obtained.

Answer 5

Usually this means that the person is self serving and never found out what his god really wanted.

Aztec society sacrificed and benefited so much from it that they no longer exist.

Muslim society are building a case for their own destruction by not only killing but assuring their own demise by bombing while attached to the bombs.

Christians have been infamous in their treatment of others and of those within their own belief system for a long time. The only thing is that if they had really been following Christ they would not have done many of the things done in His Name.

I don't know about the rest but I am sure about one thing, Human Nature Kills. Religion is the scape goat.

Answer 6

As a Muslim,I am totally against it
In our Islam,Islam not allow to do it,it allows only when the country president allows it
otherwise not
small mind thinking who says we do murdered in the name of their God.

Answer 7

Such people have many names, and these names depend on the name of their God and the place where they kill:
They could be called Crusaders, Inquisitors, Jihadists, Shin Fein, or Al Quaida.

Answer 8

It doesn't hold up at all

Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God. [Matthew 5:9]

If any one of you is without sin, let him be the first to cast a stone at her. [John 8:7] Do not judge, lest
you too be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged and with the measure you use, it will be measured to
you. [Matthew 7:1 & 2.]

Answer 9

Gods killed in the name of religion ...... drowning all the sinners. So these people who are killing others are thinking.....i'm killing sinners...god did it, what is the problem?

Yet he says that we can't kill. Do what I say not as I do!??

I say people who kill and say they did it in the name of God are being very godlike.

But really people who kill and blame it on anyone else, Man god or beast are a poor excuse for a human being.

(thumbs down here i come)

Answer 10

Well,...my opinion doesnt really matter much cuz people will continue to kill in the name of God, it is the number one cause of death throughout history. on one hand you almost have to admire a person who's faith is so strong that they are willing to kill for it!......Now lets "compare that to a marriage", we should all be faithful to our spouses right?, ideally anyways?......So a person's faith is like a marriage to a God that he or she has never seen in person!......Ok,...so lets go back to the marriage thing once again,....so you get married and sleep in the same bed and find out that your spouse snores,...in the dinner table, they talk with their mouths full?...other little annoying habits?.........but at least you can feel and see and hear and smell and touch your spouse, possibly you can even trust him or her........Now lets go back to the killing thing again and God and some basic ideas about God,........God created the universe, God created man and woman, God created everything else!......why then does God need for a human being to defend him?.....I kinda think it's humorous to think about this as a baffling brain teaser that should be printed up on pieces of paper, loaded up on a b-52 bomber, flown over Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq,and dropped by the billions so that they rain down like huge clouds of 8.5" x 11" paper, with the question in bold font all in caps saying
"IF YOUR GOD IS SO POWERFUL, WHY DOES HE NEED YOU TO DEFEND HIM?"...........I think that would possibly challenge some taliban members and even some islamists, maybe even some muslims, heck I dunno,.......I have all these gut feelings about my faith, I have not personally seen God just Yet but I have seen two angels up close and very personal when I was 15 and had cut off two fingers on my right hand,......These two angels,..."Johnathan & Jacob" appeared to me in my hospital room and I had the opportunity to ask them questions, actually only Johnathan spoke to me, Jacob was on his knees beside my bed praying for me..........I could tell you the entire story but it's very long,....I have it written down in my blog somehwere.....But To answer your question,.....I think that people who kill in the name of God are hypocrits at best and pure evil at worst, but the bible God sez not to judge a person who has murdered but rather to bring that person before Him,.......which basically means it's ok to kill the guy so long as you dont judge him, this entry in the bible is a "moral circle" that teaches a lesson on keeping your nose out of someone's business and it should suggest to a more learned scholar that if you're in a position where you have to be involved with a murderer or a burglar who murders too?....then you're not in a place where you're safe anyway......it's a moral dilemma. I rather think that if you kill someone it better be because they are tryin to kill you first.......defending yourself, your family, your property or your friends should be "a given right".....so my opinion would inevitably be.........."that person would be a dead person on top of being a hypocrit or a burglar or murderer"......does that cut it?

Answer 11

I believe GOD is different than we have so far imagined HIM and likely more different than we will ever imagine HIM to be.

To kill in the name of something we are not given to fully understand displays the fact HE has become the whipping boy of fanatics an excuse no one believes or accepts anymore .