Is Islam a Religion of Peace

[Skyviolia]

The majority of religious scholars agree that the Abrahamic faiths are not inherently 'peaceful.' However, the doctrine of Islam has come under fire because of recent terrorism. So, NS, is Islam a religion of peace?

My opinion is that Islam is just like the two other Abrahamic religions (hence why we categorize them in the same category). They have many peaceful, tolerant, etc. verses and they have many intolerant, hateful and destructive verses. I think that it is neither 'peaceful' or 'violent.' It's what you make of it.

[Nariterrr]

I agree with you this. A Christian calling Islam a violent religion is like a kernel calling another kernel a kernel. Your both kernels.

[The Soviet German Union]

Obviously Islam isn't a Religion of Peace, but of War! In the last 200 year, Islam was the only religion to make holy "war". Nor Judaism, nor Chrisitanity, nor Buddhism, nor Sikhism, nor whatever large religion killed people in such numbers as Islam (in the last 200 years).

[Washington Resistance Army]

No it isn't.

Now Jainism, that's a religion of peace.

[Nariterrr]

Obviously Islam isn't a Religion of Peace, but of War! In the last 200 year, Islam was the only religion to make holy "war". Nor Judaism, nor Chrisitanity, nor Buddhism, nor Sikhism, nor whatever large religion killed people in such numbers as Islam (in the last 200 years).

Not true. Adolf Hitler, a Christian killed six million people and he was deep in Christianity.

[Community Values]

I agree with you this. A Christian calling Islam a violent religion is like a kernel calling another kernel a kernel. Your both kernels.

Neither are inherently violent. Religion doesn't kill people, people kill people. Religion isn't violent, people are.

[The Intergalactic Universe Corporation]

Religion only teaches good. It is people who practise evil that twist the true good intentions of religion and they are the ones who cause harm.

[Minzerland]

No it isn't.

Now Jainism, that's a religion of peace.

^^

[Minzerland]

No it isn't.

Now Jainism, that's a religion of peace.

^^^^

[Washington Resistance Army]

Obviously Islam isn't a Religion of Peace, but of War! In the last 200 year, Islam was the only religion to make holy "war". Nor Judaism, nor Chrisitanity, nor Buddhism, nor Sikhism, nor whatever large religion killed people in such numbers as Islam (in the last 200 years).

Not true. Adolf Hitler, a Christian killed six million people and he was deep in Christianity.

Hitler's religious views are far more complicated than that. In private he was described as hating Christianity.

[Peoples Republic of the German States]

Obviously Islam isn't a Religion of Peace, but of War! In the last 200 year, Islam was the only religion to make holy "war". Nor Judaism, nor Chrisitanity, nor Buddhism, nor Sikhism, nor whatever large religion killed people in such numbers as Islam (in the last 200 years).

Not true. Adolf Hitler, a Christian killed six million people and he was deep in Christianity.

Wrong.

Hitler was NOT a Christian. He hated Christianity. If he made any public remarks in support of Christianity, that was because he was in public and would lie or obfuscate to appease a crowd at times. Hitler was opposed to atheism because he was a spiritual man: “atheism… is a return to the state of the animal…” (Hitler’s Table Talk, pg 59). But opposition to atheism doesn’t make anyone a Christian. Nazism was his religion, an authentic religion of his own creation (yes, life is SO much better when people create their own personal religions in a search for “authenticity,” ha).

Hitler’s Table Talk is a compilation of sayings by Hitler in private conversations that were recorded by other Nazis. It is a good source for what Hitler really thought.

“…the only way of getting rid of Christianity is to allow it to die little by little.” –Hitler’s Table Talk, pg 61

“It’s Christianity that’s the liar. It’s in perpetual conflict with itself.” –Hitler’s Table Talk, pg 61

“In the long run, National Socialism and religion will no longer be able to exist together.” –Hitler’s Table Talk, pg 6

“Kerrl, with the noblest of intentions, wanted to attempt a synthesis between National Socialism and Christianity. I don’t believe the thing’s possible, and I see the obstacle in Christianity itself.” –Hitler’s Table Talk, pg 145

[Nariterrr]

No it isn't.

Now Jainism, that's a religion of peace.

Most scholars do agree Jainism is a religion of peace.

[Ifreann]

The majority of religious scholars agree that the Abrahamic faiths are not inherently 'peaceful.' However, the doctrine of Islam has come under fire because of recent terrorism. So, NS, is Islam a religion of peace?

My opinion is that Islam is just like the two other Abrahamic religions (hence why we categorize them in the same category). They have many peaceful, tolerant, etc. verses and they have many intolerant, hateful and destructive verses. I think that it is neither 'peaceful' or 'violent.' It's what you make of it.

You don't think that the Abrahamic religions are in the same category because they share some relation to Abraham?

[Nariterrr]

Not true. Adolf Hitler, a Christian killed six million people and he was deep in Christianity.

Wrong.

Hitler was NOT a Christian. He hated Christianity. If he made any public remarks in support of Christianity, that was because he was in public and would lie or obfuscate to appease a crowd at times. Hitler was opposed to atheism because he was a spiritual man: “atheism… is a return to the state of the animal…” (Hitler’s Table Talk, pg 59). But opposition to atheism doesn’t make anyone a Christian. Nazism was his religion, an authentic religion of his own creation (yes, life is SO much better when people create their own personal religions in a search for “authenticity,” ha).

Hitler’s Table Talk is a compilation of sayings by Hitler in private conversations that were recorded by other Nazis. It is a good source for what Hitler really thought.

“…the only way of getting rid of Christianity is to allow it to die little by little.” –Hitler’s Table Talk, pg 61

“It’s Christianity that’s the liar. It’s in perpetual conflict with itself.” –Hitler’s Table Talk, pg 61

“In the long run, National Socialism and religion will no longer be able to exist together.” –Hitler’s Table Talk, pg 6

“Kerrl, with the noblest of intentions, wanted to attempt a synthesis between National Socialism and Christianity. I don’t believe the thing’s possible, and I see the obstacle in Christianity itself.” –Hitler’s Table Talk, pg 145

“The anti-Semitism of the new movement (Christian Social movement) was based on religious ideas instead of racial knowledge.”

“I believe today that I am acting in the sense of the Almighty Creator. By warding off the Jews I am fighting for the Lord’s work.”

“I have followed [the Church] in giving our party program the character of unalterable finality, like the Creed. The Church has
never allowed the Creed to be interfered with. It is fifteen hundred years since it was formulated, but every suggestion for its amendment, every logical criticism, or attack on it, has been rejected. The Church has realized that anything and everything can be
built up on a document of that sort, no matter how contradictory or irreconcilable with it. The faithful will swallow it whole, so long
as logical reasoning is never allowed to be brought to bear on it.”

“I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator.”

“This human world of ours would be inconceivable without the practical existence of a religious belief.”

“I am now as before a Catholic and will always remain so”

~ Adolf Hitler

Yeah, he was pretty religous.

[Merther]

The question is : Is Islam a religion at all ?

[Jumhuriyah Hindustan]

I cringed looking at the poll...

[Community Values]

No it isn't.

Now Jainism, that's a religion of peace.

I tried to find violent Jainist, I came across the fact that Jainist fundamentalists would sweep the streets they walk on to not kill bugs by stepping on them. Wow.

[Washington Resistance Army]

The question is : Is Islam a religion at all ?

I mean, by all definitions yeah it kinda is,

[Nariterrr]

The question is : Is Islam a religion at all ?

Definition of religion: the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods.


Yes.

[Washington Resistance Army]

No it isn't.

Now Jainism, that's a religion of peace.

I tried to find violent Jainist, I came across the fact that Jainist fundamentalists would sweep the streets they walk on to not kill bugs by stepping on them. Wow.

Hardcore pacifism man, I dunno how they do it sometimes.

[Gravlen]

Islam is not a “religion of peace”, but a “religion of law” that is “inherently concerned with governance and so political in tendency” - see Understanding Islamism, International Crisis Group 2005.

[Risottia]

The majority of religious scholars agree that the Abrahamic faiths are not inherently 'peaceful.' However, the doctrine of Islam has come under fire because of recent terrorism. So, NS, is Islam a religion of peace?

No it's not.
Just like any other organised religion. Organised religions are just political tools: they say whatever furthers the agenda of the moment.

[Taiga Monarchy]

If it's a religion of peace why did a man scream "Allahu Akbar" while shooting 49 homosexuals at Pulse?

If it's a religion of peace why did that man drive a truck through Nice to squash hundreds of civilians in the name of Islam?

If it's a religion of peace why are there suicide bombings everywhere in the name of Islam?

[Crockerland]

Obviously Islam isn't a Religion of Peace, but of War! In the last 200 year, Islam was the only religion to make holy "war". Nor Judaism, nor Chrisitanity, nor Buddhism, nor Sikhism, nor whatever large religion killed people in such numbers as Islam (in the last 200 years).

Not true. Adolf Hitler, a Christian killed six million people and he was deep in Christianity.

No, he obviously wasn't.

[The Intergalactic Universe Corporation]

All religions are peaceful but it is man that twists religion into something violent and evil