Religious Illusion:

"God wants it"

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The instruction to the suicides is from brutal impression: "this is the hour, in which you will meet God, and prays to God, God helps me to do this." "if you in the airplane are, should you to God pray, because you do this for God. As the all-powerful Prophet says, an act for God is better than the whole world". Again and again: Pray, pray, pray, so that you become not varying and give from fear your project up. "Open your heart, welcomes death in the name of God." The wages for your loyalty are quite close: "Open your heart, because you are only a short moment distant from the good, only life of full positive values in the society of martyrs." Finally, if everything past is, "angels call your name and carry for you their most beautiful dresses". In view of 5,500 humans, who died with the terrorist attacks in the USA, the "mirror-image-ritual guidance" reads itself for the suicide notice on the World Trade Center, which found FBI officials in the luggage of the assassin Mohammed Atta, like
a document of religious Paranoia - God as justification for the terrorist attack in history, fear-burst so far. In the name of God everything is justified: In the rubble of New York also many faith brothers of the terrorists died. But so more makaber the Atta document reads itself - it fits a fanaticism, which is not only in the Islam virulent. Also the Jewish extremist Jigal Amir, which shot the Israeli prime minister Jizchak Rabin, believed, to fulfill the will of God. And a strict Novizenmeister of a rigorosen catholic medal could avail itself nearly of the same formula as that Koran teacher, who wrote the " guidance ", if he trims his Fratres on absolute obedience against its upper ones and on total devotion to the Christian God - after the foreign exchange of the founder of the Jesuitorder, Ignatius of Loyola: "I believe that the white, whom I see is black, if the hierarchical church determines it in such a way." It gave religious illusion at all times in all faith directions, it is as it were the dark side of each religion, which is to be explained only with difficulty. Such illusion, which out-raves itself usually in force against people which thinks different, exist even in in such a way " gentle "religions like the Hindus and the Buddhists. And is he was common meanwhile particularly in the three revealing religions Jewish, Christianity and Islam, which believed all three in a God, on Abraham to be based and therefore also abrahamitische religions be called. Together them the conviction, everyone of them is alone has God the truth about itself, which humans and the world revelationed. This revealing is laid down in holy books - the Hebrew Bible, the Christian new will and the Islamic Koran. And these writings contain contradictory statements in itself. Both the Koran and the Bible of the old person like new will announce a good-natured God primarily and call to peace and people love; the word from the Hebrew Bible, taken over by Jesus, is clearest: "love your next one like you yourself".
But besides utterances, which witness from intolerance and ready for violence shank, stand texts like these: "I came to divide around the son with its father and the daughter with its mother." "who loves father and mother more than me, is not mine not with dignity." Or: "do not believe, I came to bring peace on earth. I did not come to bring peace but the sword." Also the Prophet Mohammed conveys cruel instructions Allahs: "is afraid the fire, which is prepared for the disbelieving ones:" At the greatest contradiction reveals itself the old-testamentary God, which spent the maxim, which is still most current in the Middle East according to Bible as ethical formula also: "eye for eye, tooth for tooth." The abraham religions enticed again and again in history fanatics to implement the own faith against disbelieving ones and Dissidenten - if necessary with fire and sword. Until today nearly all religions are a mainspring for pursuits and wars, for people hate, torture and murder.
There are examples zuhauf: the cruel arguments between Hindus and Muslims in India about or the bloody hate, with which in Indonesia Muslims and Christians fight each other. Long time seemed the religiously founded extremism in the abraham religions overcome, in the Christianity since the clearing-up, since the symbiosis of state and religion took care of itself and became generally accepted the idea, on the consent of the society of a based ethics independent of the faith in God. But at the beginning of the nineties pointed out the French sociologist Gilles Kepel in its book "the revenge of God" that religious extremists among Muslims, Christians and Jews are long again on the advance. The fact that the Islamics are most radical thereby has also historical reasons: The Islam lives after own time calculation in 15. Century, in a phase, when in the Christianity the reform was still approaching. A Martin Luther, who begins to break the dogma tables open solidification Islam, is missing to the Muslims. So different roots the new movements of fundamentalism also have (and so fanatical it to fight each other to like), it all have the conviction that "secular community the authentication basis is missing " (Kepel). The fundamentalists of all Couleur whether Muslims, Jews or Christians, want to set the everyday society world-wide again to a sakrale basis, to make God and its teachings again to the only criterion of the state. The fundamentalists of Christians, like the American arousing movement or catholic charismatics, dream about a re-christianizing of the world, Muslims announce to the Dschihad, which against all bad, which manifests itself particularly in the "disbelieving ones" of the western world, and fight to God war for the Re-islamizing of those countries, in which the teachings were Mohammeds over centuries set of rules for all ranges of the social and national life. It concerns to the Jewish fundamentalists the revision of the jewish religion and driving of all otjer religions out from its territory. Kepel refers to an interesting phenomenon: "the most trailers and activists of the contemporary religious movements come of by no means to ungebildeten social classes, but have frequently a national diploma in predominantly technical courses of studies. They do not see a contradiction between their scientific-technologic training and their subjecting under a faith, to that the laws of the reason extract themselves. " The leaders of the Islamic terrorists, to September 11th 2001 the USA attacked, originate from this environment: Some of them studied airplane or mechanical engineering as well as town planning at German universities.

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Jewish religion - murder and death impact in the name Jahwes

The first suicide assassin of abrahams religion history was a Jew: Samson - approximately 1,200 years before Christ, when the Israelis under the rule of the Philister groaned. As long as the Huene did not cut its hair, it was gesegnet of God with extraordinary strength: It tore a lion up with bare hands. To that muscle-show off, which put on itself promptly with crew power, would have remained unbeatable, would have his loved Delila not the secret of his strength to betray. In the sleep it let the head shear Samson, then it was overwhelmed by the Philistern. They outdid it the eyes, and from now on the prisoner had to turn the Muehlraeder in Gaza.
The hour of the revenge came, when the hair of the blind one had again regenerated. When Samson was demonstrated with a victim celebration for the philistergod Dagon the people for amusing, he could be led to the two central columns of the temple. After an impact prayer "think of me, and give me again strength " placed itself it between the two principal supports of the building." it lifted itself against it, against the one with the right hand, against the other one with that linking. He said: So I may die together with the Philistern. It stretched itself with all effort, and the house collapsed over the prince and all people therein. " With the death-despising force act about 3,000 men and women died. It so anyhow reports the book of the judges - makabre parallel to the terrorist attack on the towers of the World Trade Center in New York. Kill in God names? Already since the kings David and Salomon the history of the Israeliten of war, murder and homicide strotzt. Already Noah does not only receive the reference on the way: "be fruitful and reproduce you", but also the maxim: "who pours people blood, by humans poured its blood." Also the conquest of the praised country happens after gods order of the day: "from the desert to the Lebanon and of the large river Euphrates to to the large sea against sunset should be your area", the creator with Joshua is quoted, "it is not to resist you anybody your life long." The children of Israel, who get ready to itself after old-testamentary excessive quantity to advance over Jordan after Jericho adhered with unyielding brutality to the heavently default: The walls of the city fell after seven-day siege force-free by trombone sounds and war shouting; but then the income followed "with the sharpness of the sword". It culminated in the "spell of God", in a terrible bloodbath. "died man and woman, young and alto, cattle, sheep and donkeys." Burning on behalf of the allpowerful: The book of the books strotzt before acts of violence also within rivaling Jewish trunks and groups. Makkabaeer fought each other with convertiten. Zeloten pursued Jewish collaborations with merciless hardness in the name of its God Jahwe. After internal struggles for power and murders the Zeloten rebellion broke down; the remaining Jewish God godfighters entrenchd themselves in the mountain fortress Massada, eight years lasted their embittered resistance. "The Roman aggressors found uncanny emptiness", when they overcame early in the morning a digging with drop bridges. "you could not introduce yourselves, what had happened, described" the Jewish historical writer Flavius Josephus the tendency on the rock plateau: 960 men, women and children had selected free death instead of the shank.
Since that time the act of desperation is symbol. It accompanies for many centuries the collective memory of the Jews in the Diaspora and determines since the establishment of state of Israel the self understanding of the Sabras: "Massada may never fall again", is called the myth of the heroischen resistance of the Jewish ancestors, shortened to the slogan. "the Zeloten was not a heap of hooligan", believes the sociologist Ehud Sprinzak, "it acted in the conviction to follow goettliche instructions." But "also a strong, ideologically justified terrorism arose against moderate Jews". Approximately later, so the Israeli expert for right-wing radicalism, the phenomenon is not overcome 2,000 years. With reference to Biblical models and religious standards the itself-appointed helpers of God pull against all enemies of Israel to field. For it the historical order with the existence of the zionistischen state is not still long fulfilled. Right extremists and orthodoxe Ultras are not content with the vision Theodor Herzls, which wanted to create a new home place for the Jews in Palestine. The trailers large Israel believe, the " soul of the Jewish people " can be released only by the possession of the entire holy country - possibly from the two-current country to the Mediterranean. Only the victory in the six-day war from June 1967 forced the secret culture fight. Also saekulare Jews did not only celebrate conquests as proof for military superiority of their state. "who was not religious", meant the man with only one eye.
Secretary of Defense Mo Dajan at that time, "that is it today become." But where saekulare Jews the West Jordan territory, who called Sinai peninsula and the Golan heights "occupied area", recognized, deeply religious Jews in the geographical expansion of the State of Israel on the old Biblical borders an indication of God. Country for peace exchanges? Inconceivablily, more still: a frevel. "a deep internal connection exists the special connection of God idea and national feeling between the Jewish people and the country Israel", wrote Rabbi Zwi Jehuda Kook, an ideological member of the large Israel movement,: "both are holy. People and Tora (the Biblical laws) exist as entireness only if also the entireness of the country remain untouched." The militant settler movement raised this special connection from God idea and national feeling to the program. It wanted to prevent that also only one square centimeter of holy soil is returned to the enemies of Israel. The goal: full Israeli sovereignty over the whole Erez Israel. The star of the froemmelnden maximumists Rabbi became Mo Levinger, whose trailer already occupied one year after the six-day war in the Palestinian Hebron a hotel. After long negotiations with the government most of them withdrew themselves to the local edge and created there the new Jewish city Kirjat Arba - the military settlement became the center of the nationalistic Ultras. Organizations like " Gusch Emunim " (block of the faithful ones), which the right term of the state Israel by the Biblical " country Israel " (Erez) replaced and persistent the Jewish advance in the occupied areas claimant, served the military settlement as switching center.
The movement, which never counted more than 25,000 members, was the compromise-loosest advocate of a religious Renaissance: Their trailers, which pushed their strategic hamlets forward with rifle and Tora into the mountains of Judaea and Samaria, understood the establishment of settlements as personal contribution for the release of the entire people. Some the modern Zelots do not frighten before force and murder back. The craziest enterprise aimed at the "eyesore" in the heart Jerusalems: Jewish ones bomb-casually planned at the beginning of the eighties a notice on the shrine of the Islamic world most important after Mekka and Medina. With enormous explosive quantities they wanted to hunt the Aksa mosque and the rock cathedral into air. The destruction of the cult places, so the perfide calculation of the Jewish group of terror of "Machteret" (underground), would provoke the Islamic world to the "holy war" and would cause thus the apokalyptische final battle between property and bad. "the victory of Israel at the end of this ardently here-longed firetrial", says the extremism expert Gideon Aran about the conspirators, who had gotten themselves with radical Rabbinern religious cover, should " a coming of the Messias prepare ". The plan was defeated by the secret service. Ten years later stood the indications again on end time tendency. While the world appreciated the Oslo agreement and the hand impact between Jizchak Rabin and Palestinian leader Jassir Arafat as hopefull gesture of peace, the Jewish Ultras with hate-fulfilled Tiraden preached against the "sellout of Jewish country" and the "betrayal of the godest promise". " Rabin murderers ", call right demonstrators. Does the peace process become the writing on the wall of Israel? Does the existence of the Jewish people stand on the play?
Baruch Goldstein is convinced of it. The physician from Kirjat Arba goes in the morning 25. February 1994 into the Ibrahim mosque emptied by Hebron and its Galil Gun into the praying quantity of Palestinian creditors. 29 humans die, 125 are hurt, before Goldstein itself is struck down and killed with a fire extinguisher. After first public frightening the grave of the mass murderer becomes the pilgrimplace. "causing the murder" calls Rabin infuriates the glory of the killer raised to the martyr. And right keeps in tragic way: Jigal Amir, a ultrareligious student, was, as it tobminutes gave later, "enthusiastically by the enormous amounts of humans on the funeral, their love for our Jewish values". To 4. the balls from the pistol of the Goldstein Bewunderers the Israeli Prime Minister killed November 1995, at the end of a demonstration in Tel Aviv under the slogan "to the peace, no to the force". Jigal Amir believed to act as executioners of God. It carried out, admits no murder, an execution later it. "congratulate to the merry celebration", wrote in the Internet a fellow student after Rabins murder, "the bad Hexer is dead." The mental fire founders of this insanity are quickly constituted. "it would have given not to encouragements of our religious leaders, nobody also only on the idea would have come to do such a thing", believes Rabbi Joel Ben Ben-Nun, even a settler, but politically rather the left camp associated. "between the erring spirit eagerness that Egyptian fundamentalists and the Israeli zealots exists a haarstraeubende parallelism", says the Orientalic-Researcher Imanuel Sivan. And Jossi Sarid, left secretary of the environment in the cabinet Rabins, asks shaken: "as it comes only that the gentleman God gives like Christian or Muslim fundamentalists obviously only one instruction to Jewish: 'Kill'?"

Christianity - with fire and sword against witches and Ketzer

The history of the Christianity is likewise stout filled over one and a half millenia with examples of a violent fanaticism - even if this radicalism is far less virulent today in the comparison to the Islam and to the Judentum. In the early period, when the Christians had still no power and in the Roman realm itself were brutally pursued, because they did not take part in the nationally ordered God cult, documented themselves this fanaticism in a strange death desire: Under a minority of religious it applied to be tortured and executed in the first three centuries as coronation of a Christian life, of the lay authority. The number of the martyrs, who are admired until today as bright models, is begun Legion - with the Aposteln Petrus and Paulus and that Christian, which left emperors Nero anno 64 as alleged fire founders of Rome kills. So highly in the course the martyrs that some religious beleavers even tried to provoke own death was located about, "as it religious pictures destroyed or in the crossfire cheeky opposite the governor arose" in the early church or by beginning "with contempt to hiss", "if they passed a temple", as the British church historian describes Sir Henry Chadwick.
In at that time, describe Chadwick settled North Africa partly like a Christian, almost developed in view of pursuits "Christian combat spirit"; and "to the highest goal it became, the martyr crown of earning itself". For this fanatic that majority of their faith comrades, who shrank from martyr death or rejected and whom therefore tried, was itself with the heaths survive, which "lapsi" which were actually no right to call itself far Christians. When the Christianity was raised in the Roman realm 380 to the state religion, an operating field was rapid: The death desire operated itself in murder desire against Andersdenkende, deviationist of the pure teachings and disbelieving one. "Deus lo vult", "God wants it", read the slogan for the moerderische church enterprise at the beginning of the second Christian millenium: the crusades. The Popes had called the entire Christianity to release Jerusalem and the holy country from Muslim rule. The perfect drain of all sin punishments signed to the cross drivers apart from hope for fat booty. On at least six crusades the Christian army crowds did not only rage between 1096 and 1291 in Palestine. They devastated besides the Christian Konstantinopel (1204) and slaughtered already at home on the way in the holy country Jews, who came them into the traverse - everything to the larger honour of God.
There it was only consistent that the spain conquistadores used the same methods also with the heaths of the new world, if they refused itself swearing off their Gods and professing themselves to the God of its conquerers. The result was a genocide at millions Indians. The conquistadores, encouraged of the klerikers accompanying it, committed an endless chain of cruel crimes. "the Indios", describes Joachim Bald in its essay "the misery of the Christianity" the atrocity, "which gepfaehlt, hung or slowly with alive body roasted." A further summit was the verses Inquisition in the 500 years persisting witch burn, which fed itself particularly from two sources: from the magic conception of the world of the Middle Ages, was populated by magicians and bad spirit, and from the fear of the woman, interlocked deeply in the Christianity, as a guide. Pope Gregor IX. (1227 to 1241) gave the instruction to pursue witches. Some its successor legitimized practice.  The first witch was burned 1275 in Toulouse.  Altogether among them 1431 the land girl Jeanne died d`Arc in Europe according to careful estimations 50,000 to 80,000 women, which entered as a virgin of Orléans history. The protestanten were not inferior to the catholics. In Evangelist landing fewer women were not killed than in catholic regions. Particularly badly was the witch burn in Germany. Here 1487 appeared the lampoon " Malleus maleficarum ", the witch misery, written by the two dominicains Heinrich Institoris and Jakob Sprinkler, the work of kind of condition of the Christian woman enemies absolutely.  In Bamberg in only one year 600 women were executed, in rheinischen victory castle 200, in the hessian Fulda in three years 205. The last witch was executed 1793 in Posen.
The probably heaviest debt loaded the catholic church opposite the Jews on itself. Already in the Urchristentum a violent Antijudaismus flowered against the "Christ murderers", and this tradition remained the church to in 20.  Century faithfully. Without the Christian Antijudaismus the Holocaust of the Nazis would have been probably not possible. "Hep!",  the murderers had already roared with 1,000 years, when they penetrated into the lanes of the Jews. "Hierosolyma est perdita", read the dissolution of the contraction - Jerusalem was destroyed.  "Hep!", that remained the battle call for the Jewish-Holocaust into the Hitler time. Like many Jews in the course of church history with approval of the church or on their express instruction, over it give it no reliable numbers were killed. For most Popes into the beginning modern times the Jews remained what they were for Innozenz III. (1198 to 1216): "of God damned slaves". It was the movement of the clearing-up, which made an end for murder driving. Their ideals - reason, liberty, equality, fraternity, tolerance - seized between 17. and 19. Century the whole western world, it broke the indoktrinaere power of the church. Ketzer and witch burn were forbidden everywhere by the state. The Inquisition stops even in Spain. 1808 explained Joseph distinctive, a brother Napoleon, the Christian torture instrument for abolished. But only 1826 were gehenkt in Valencia the last Ketzer.
For Paps Johannes Paul II. is the fanaticism history:  It apologized at the beginning of the "holy yearly" proclaimed by him 2000 in public plea of guilty for the crimes, which and daughters of its church in the name of God committed sons ever. But in questions of the moral also Johannes Paul is a fundamentalist, which dreams about the reon purchasing of religious values. It does not come from approximate that the Vatikan made a pact at the conference of UN for family planning before seven years in Cairo with radical Islamics, in order to prevent a resolution to empfaengnisverhuetung and abortion. And the Christian Fundamentalisten groups in Europe and the USA have not least inlet from the charismatischen movements of the catholic church emsig promoted by the Pope.
Another root of this fundamentalism originates from protestantismusism. In the USA ready for violence religious abortion opponents are active for years. So far seven humans were shot, among them three physicians.  The fundamentalism of the Muslims is today far more brutal until. The Islam has a Propheten of other caliber, than it was the Jesus of the Christians: Mohammed people son, language pipe Allahs, over intermediary of its messages. And in addition a successful field gentleman, who led cunningly and sometimes also inexorably hard war, closed amazingly moderated peace treaties with the losers, established in Medina a local authority - its realm of this world.