Religion
In reply to the discussion: Is my faith the correct faith? Are other faiths wrong? [View all]Sophia4
(3,515 posts)that killing people of other beliefs or opinions or anyone at all for any reason cannot claim to be carrying out the will of any higher being.
And, since my concept of God is an energy force that created the universe including humans, a person who kills another is opposing the energy force that created that other and therefore is opposing God.
And yet, I realize, having been raised in farm country, that in order to survive, we humans do kill plants and animals. And I also realize that death is as much a part of life as is birth.
And I do believe that we humans are energy, energy in a human form, thus, when we die, our human energy does not disappear but transforms into some other form. Our energy survives. Our human form disintegrates.
But, at least on this earth and in the part of our universe that we know, killing other humans in my view is the great insult, the greatest insult to God. So be it. The greatest insult to God, the greatest denigration of His creation, of the creation of that Supreme Energy Force is killing a human which is, at least on this earth as far as we can tell, the most amazing of God's creation, that is the most amazing creation of the energy force I call God.
And my statement fits in with almost every religion in the world.
I don't know much about the Muslim religion although someone gave me a copy of the Koran many years ago. I was not impressed. And Mohammed killed people who disagreed with him about religion. I contrast that with what we are told of Jesus, and I think more of Jesus because he respected and loved God's creation, the creation of the ultimate energy that created the universe.