Tuesday 29 April 2008

Using Religion as an Excuse? Being too religios (pt 2)



I think the idea of being too religious can stem into two parts.
Part One: Wanting to spread your religion to help others and reduce the risk of sin
Part Two: Brainwashed to follow a country or to gain personal acheivments.

Part One: the typical “Ned Flanders” – devoted to God want to encourage the Christian community to follow the religion. –becomes too religious when it starts to affect people’s lives and to disturb them….

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=407219&in_page_id=1770

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=58528



Part Two: People who have gone too far to use their religion as an excuse to hurt others and to promote actions that they want. Ie “Birmingham Six” certain types of “Jihad”

http://www.columbusdispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/04/22/bible_on_desk.htm

However, the definition of a Jihad:
“Sometimes called the "sixth pillar of Islam," this word has two meanings: 1. The "greater jihad" is "striving" of any kind, particularly moral; the struggle to be a better person, a better Muslim, the struggle against drugs, against immorality, against infidelity, etc. 2. Holy war in agreement with the Shari'ah: only undertaken when the faith is threatened and at the approval of a religious authority such as a mullah, though this is a difficult distinction (the "lesser jihad").”

There is no part of the Islamic Religion that states that it is acceptable to commite suicde-if anything it goes against the religion!

The prohibition of suicide has also been recorded in authentic statements of hadith. For example; "He who commits suicide by throttling shall keep on throttling himself in the Hell-fire, and he who commits suicide by stabbing himself, he shall keep stabbing himself in the Hell-fire."

Hadith - Bukhari 7:670, Narrated Abu Huraira
The Prophet said, "Whoever purposely throws himself from a mountain and kills himself, will be in the (Hell) Fire falling down into it and abiding therein perpetually forever; and whoever drinks poison and kills himself with it, he will be carrying his poison in his hand and drinking it in the (Hell) Fire wherein he will abide eternally forever; and whoever kills himself with an iron weapon, will be carrying that weapon in his hand and stabbing his abdomen with it in the (Hell) Fire wherein he will abide eternally forever."

http://members.aol.com/MuttaqunOL/suicide.html

Therefore can one really state that one is being too religious? Or using religion as an excuse?

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