If all religions are based on love, why does a certain religion reward (with paradise), the killing of others?
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they can do what they like with theyre own relegion and beleifs in their own country,but what s_hits me is that they've gone into every country trying to take over parts of it with theyre hate for other relegions,other nationalities and they always isolate from the rest of the world. they mock christianity,jesus and the way we live and the freedom of speech which everyone is entitled to.\n i dont know how someone can believe that killing another person will get you to heaven,these people are heavily brainwashed and have no brains left.im personally sick and tired of the way they make a big deal when something is said about them(muslims),they constantly say stuff about us and even go out and kill us(non muslims)and were supposed to be quiet about that?maybe we should next time go and burn theyre embassy's and be violent against them so they can see that its not ok how theyre acting!but i dont believe we will ever see this as we are  more civilized human beings than they are.
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I have to agree with the previous poster that no, Christians do not love as they ought.\nThe fact that we fail however, does not negate the commandment, or mean that we don't make it our goal in life to love even our enemies with a perfect love.\n\nNow, this begs a question, what does loving your enemy look like in real life? Does loving your enemy mean that you put yourself in harms way by trusting them not to hurt you? I don't think so. Does it mean to have warm gooshy feelings for them? again, I don't think so.\nLoving your enemy means that you wish the best for them, as a Christian, the best we could possibly wish for someone is that they too would come into the relationship with God that we enjoy. If that is rejected, the next best thing is that they enjoy good things in this life because they will surely have nothing to enjoy in the afterlife. (Luke 16:19-31) Not only does loving your enemy mean that you wish the best for them, but it also means that you activly engage in things that will directly benefit them.\nIn the case of Bin Laden, I also have to weigh out the fact that I am commanded to love the other 6 Billion people on the planet, and since Bin Laden is actively engaged in harming many people (he has never done anything against me personally), I should support efforts to express love to my fellow-man by putting a stop to Bin Laden's activities.\nPersonally, I desire to see Bin Laden come to a saving and redeeming knowledge of Jesus Christ, but failing that, or until that happens, the most loving thing I can do is desire to his terrorist activities halted by whatever means possible.
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First of all, the true members of the Muslim religion condemn these acts. They are not smiled upon.\n\nSecond, most suicide bombers are pretty brainwashed. They are told that they will live an exuberant life in heaven with a bunch of virgins. The suicide bombers actions are of greed not faith.\n\nThird, remember that, no matter what, suicide is the greatest act of selfishness that one can act upon. All of the religions I have studied teach this in one way or another. Fanatics always twist religion to their own purpose.\n\nSo, while it is true that people blow themselves up to kill others, it is far from true that it is a noble act, rewarded in Heaven. It is more a damnable act to be rewarded in Hell.
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after death,good people go to paradise whiles bad people go to hell and be waiting for judgement
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You know, this is actually an interesting question.\n\nMany religious people believe that it is religion that gives them morals and prevents them from Hell and such. But really, it's not that at all. You can have morals but no religion.\n\nI believe that there is a moral world order, a sort of universal code that must be adhered to in order to preserve order and good in the world. This is not my religious feeling, but instead my moral compass, if you will. \n\nI don't do good deeds for fear of hell, or as supplication so that I may enter heaven. I do good and fight evil because I feel that good must always prevail over evil, or we will have lost our humanity, and become beasts.\n\nMorality is very often a black and white issue. Rape is never grayscale. It's never justified, and the people who commit it need to be put in prison or in an electric chair. They have forfeited their humanity, and like dangerous animals they need to be locked up or destroyed.\n\nOther issues that are black and white to me are murder, arson, and terrorism. Terrorism is never justified, no matter what. I don't care if US Black Hawk helicopters shot up your village or somthing as a kiddie and killed your mujahdeen daddy. The fact of the matter is that you can NEVER EVER kill civilians in cold blood for political reasons. You can never treat humans as tools for political advancement. \n\nMurder is never justified because killing another human being is just wrong. I say only murder, not killing, because murder is cold and premeditated. Manslaughter is also included in this. That a person could plan and execute a deadly attack on another is shocking to me.\n\nArson is never right either. No one has a good reason to be burning some buildings down.\n\nI disagree with you about Stalin. That was not religiously motivated. Nor was the Holocaust. In fact, the years 1936 to 1945 were remarkably unreligious given Germany's usually strong Catholic base. Hitler disliked the Church and largely they went along with him. However, Hitler did not claim divine support. \n\nHowever, atrocities are often commited in the name of religion. How about the Crusades, or the Thirty Years War? Thousands of lives wasted, all in the name of God!\n\nSometimes I think my moral compass is better than your Bible. I have all the morals with none of the religious radicalism.
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The Qur'an,, or the Islamic holy book teaches that they are to kill Jews and Christians. If they die while doing this, they are promised instant access to paradise.  \n\nMuhammad taught that Holy War was an acceptable and good thing to do.  To clarify, he even stated that if a Muslim were to die in battle, fighting for the cause of Allah, that he would be guaranteed to go to Paradise.  \n\nSlay non-muslims:  "Then, when the sacred months have passed, slay the idolaters wherever ye find them, and take them (captive), and besiege them, and prepare for them each ambush. But if they repent and establish worship and pay the poor-due, then leave their way free. Lo! Allah is Forgiving, Merciful," (Quran 9:5). \n\nAllah urges killing: "...the hypocrites and those in whose hearts is a disease and the agitators in the city do not desist... 61Cursed: wherever they are found they shall be seized and murdered, a (horrible) murdering. 62(Such has been) the course of Allah with respect to those who have gone before; and you shall not find any change in the course of Allah, (Quran 33:60-62). \n\nAs you can see, the Qur'an definitely teaches that it's people are to fight for the cause of Islam. This list of verses is important because they are within the holy book of Islam. What are we to conclude if a Muslim or to take the Quran seriously? Is he not obligated to slay non-Muslims, to go to war, to kill those against Islam, etc.? Isn't this what the verses are teaching? Yes, they are and this is the source of Islamic Terrorism.\n\n\nThe Bible tells us however to love our enemies and to do good to those who persecute us.  (our government is not able to do this as they have the duty to protect it's citizens)\n\nI find it very revealing to see that if a Christian told a Muslim about Jesus, he could be executed in their society, but they do want to be able to spread Islam here without anyone stopping them.  I believe TRUTH has nothing to hide but they sure are hiding a lot.
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ISLAM OR ELSE..THE RELIGIONS MENT TO BE LOVE.\nLOVE THE FELLOW MANKIND.\n\nBUT..\n\nDID THEY FOLLOW THAT?
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You have a wrong concept.People do not kill people in the name of Allah.They only kill for their interest.If you read the history and watch the latest happenings around the world you will know the bare truth.Allah didnt state in the holy Quran to kill human beings (each other).Even no riligion says to kill people for the sake of God or religion.\n    Most people colors Jehad as holy war.Actually Jehad doesnt mean that,it means struggle.Its a continual way to achive the goal of religious life.A very little example - to see a man/woman with lustful eyes is a sin,to check or control your lust is Jehad here.
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To give love you have to know how to replenish it within yourself so there is always something to give away. If you practice a religious faith, many of the teachings are about a loving God who is the source of all love. Rules aside, most religious people feel like, since they are loved by God, and since so is everyone else, they should love others too, and they find it somewhat easier to do. Most folks who believe in God consider it, among other things, to be an endless well of goodness to draw from.\n\nAlso a good healthy dose of self-esteem. If you don't love yourself, you can't truly love someone else. And if you don't treat yourself well, who else will? People who have a lot of love in their hearts also show love to themselves.\n\nOf course, it has to do with how you were raised and if anything happened to punish you for loving others or if you lost trust or got hurt really bad in the process of giving love to others. It can harden you. \n\nBut don't confuse affection or endearments with love. There are lots of ways a person can love another and they aren't always easy or pleasant. Love is hard work sometimes, not always being nice. So if you think a person doesn't have love in their heart, they probably do, they probably show it in different ways, or it is hidden.
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By "same God" in your question, I assume you mean, "Why do Christians kill other Christians?" and, "Why do Muslims kill other Muslims?". In case you think that Muslims do not kill other Muslims, remember the Kurds in Iraq?  I'm limiting your question because the Christian, the Muslim, the Buddhist, and the Hindu, do NOT have the SAME god as defined by the attributes of god in these religions.  \n\nI would like to submit two universal answers and I do not have the time to elaborate: power and greed.  In localized situations, it may be fanaticism or revenge.  In the final analysis, it probably has nothing to do with different beliefs.
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Thats a very interesting view point. I guess the assholes follow religions with theories of heaven/hell. Murder to get 72 virgins WTF
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Religions seem to be full of contradictions. \n\nThe Qua-ran has many verses that Allah requires killing people. (04.089)\n\nThe Old Testament of the Bible and the Torah also have God commanding people to kill others.  The Ten Commandments say thou shalt not kill.\n\nChrist commanded his followers in the Sermon on the Mount to love God above all and your neighbor as yourself.\n\nI don't believe Christians or Jews are killing for their religion.  I believe it is self defense after an attack.  I think Muslim use the same self defense argument, to defend their land, their way of life. One kills another and its spirals.  In their case Allah rewards them for killing and martyrdom.   I think this philosophy is the weak link in the Muslim religion. Encouraging violence.\n\nI believe what Jesus taught as love your neighbor as absolute truth of what God wants.
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A very good question.\n\nNobody likes to think their loved ones are bad people or that their own heaven will exclude the things or people that they love. It is a no win argument, either the God/Gods will punish the wrong doers and in the process do evil to the person who did no wrong, or the God/Gods have to forgive everyone for their crime and heaven will be open for everyone even if they don't believe.\nMaybe there is a true God that does not punish and the Gods we all hear about are all just the Devil, making threats and forcing people to follow them. Even more radical would a true loving God exclude anyone? or even judge people?
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A few weeks ago, I replied to a similar question. I think I should again. I am a muslim. The first thing you should know that, just like christians or jews, we beleive in only one God too, which means that my God is not different than theirs. We beleive in all the prophets including Jesus..Islam is based on love, respect, peace, friendship, consideration, forgiveness etc., just like other religions.Islam is also a religion of science. You couldn't beleive your eyes if you read the book and saw that many discoveries made after 1900s were all explained in detail in Koran more than 1300 years ago. Whatever happening in the world so cruel and unreasonable that is told to be executed in the name of islam has in fact nothing to do with it. Can you imagine the God ordering to kill, torture and urge people to do things other than their will? No, this is ridiculous.\nIn my country there are really a lot of moderate muslims, while there are of course some of these ignorant and stupid people as in any other places. I beleive there are so many other moderate ones too around the world everywhere. As a matter of fact, the word "moderate" is not fitting in. Because islam itself is moderate. But the damage these radicals have given has raised to a point that, most people have started thinking that islam itself and its beleivers are cruel, bigot and uncultured.\nI respect any other religion and I wish the others did the same without prejudice and they understood this cruelty has nothing to do with my religion. It is the people who are cruel, not the religions. And no religion orders cruelty or violence.
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If someone kills in the name of God, they have been duped.  They fell victim to irrational thinking.  The god they serve is not God the creator (the giver of LIFE), but rather the god of death (Satin).  God promotes life. "Be fruitful and multiply."  God promises everlasting life, sent Jesus to overcome death.  Why would God go through all the trouble of creating life only to have others destroy it?  Makes no sense.
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No, religion, for most people, is a way of explaining things that are essentially unknowable.  Does life have meaning?  What happens to us after we die?  Is there any reason to be ethical, even when we see others apparently succeed by being unethical? Why is so much of life a matter of pain and suffering? Etc., etc.  Religions attempt to provide answers to those questions, and therefore they are a comfort to their believers.
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More killing has been done in history in the name of religion than for any other reason.I believe in God without a doubt,but I wouldn't walk into a church if you paid me.It's funny that I find church goers to be the most intolerant folks I've come accross.The people in church may not be evil but yes ,religion is most definetly evil and you can bet satan is happy with the divisions that religion creates.All part of his evil plan.