If your god or goddess, or religious doctrine, demanded you murder someone who was a heathen, would you do it?

[hahahmm]

Just to put your question in context... the symbol in your profile image is the unicursal hexagram, the best known symbol of the Thelema occult, " an esoteric and occult social or spiritual philosophy and new religious movement developed in the early 1900s by Aleister Crowley, an English writer, mystic, and ceremonial magician... Aspects of Thelema and Crowley's thought in general inspired the development of Wicca and, to a certain degree, the rise of Modern Paganism as a whole, as well as chaos magick and some variations of Satanism."

"The moral code of "Do What Thou Wilt" is believed by Thelemites to be the religion's ethical law"

If you are attempting to find justification for murdering people, I've gotta say don't do it. Better to go start your own village somewhere than to destroy the lives of others. Everyone has a right to self-defense tho. If someone is trying to literally murder you, you have the right to try and stop them in that moment.

[Jjpayne]

That's a tough place to be... Because murders were directed to happen by God and the catch is, #6 up there..

I guess if I knew it was God, and it was, that would be my life's purpose I guess... But judging from the commandments, it's very rare if ever to happen... But I also don't remember the wars that took place after 🤔 I'd say... If there are christians in the army that kill to protect the world, then killing a heartless general for the better, might not be nearly as bad... 🤔

[Danielle93]

Then that's not a great god, which makes it not god. God would be about harmony, love and peace, not murder.
If a murderous, punisher was the only ''God'' then I would stop believing in that evil being.

[Espresso-Grande]

If I was a true servant of God, and he commanded me to kill, yes I would.

Even Abraham in the Bible was going to kill his own son when God asked him to as a test of his faith.

[Derekk]

If I may be allowed to extend the definition of "religious doctrine" to include any kind of ethical commandment that goes beyond human material concerns, I would believe that I SHOULD kill them. I'm a deontologist, so naturally I'm not really motivated by human pleasure or pain in a moral sense. I think that you can't really get out of subjectivity in ethics until we dramatically change what we mean when we refer to ethical behaviour. Having said that, I don't think I'd be physically capable of murder. So I'd probably just declare myself unethical and leave it at that.

[mecookiemonster62]

I was born and raised a Catholic, I was even the altar boy and no I was not molested play the church. Catholic Church used to believe in that type of dog during the Inquisition it was not uncommon for people to be killed if they did not follow the Catholic doctrine. Thank God we come out of the dark ages on that point there are still some religions to this day that you adhere to that though hopefully eventually all philosophies and religions believe that in the dustbin of the past

[NamerOfStars]

Nope. They want them dead, they can kill them themselves. I don't care HOW strong you are, power alone is not reason to be worshiped, and I'm not going to hold a god to lower moral standard than I'd hold a human.

[jshm2]

That's called "joining the military," kiddo. You even get paid for it and can pretend to do it for "country".

Try to keep up.

[Phoenix98]

I wouldn’t kill someone heathen or otherwise in cold blood.

Because its it’s wrong morally but also because that’s a direct violation of the rules god put into place in the first place.

[TheSimonymous]

I'd try to find out if that voice really comes from God or not because usually God takes care of that himself. And yes, Biblical law allows the death punishment for certain groups of people.

[Don-__-Don]

If the god, goddess, or religious doctrine existed for an absolute fact and I believed in said god

I would definitely do it, no doubt in my mind.

If I'm going to believe in any god, I'm going all the way with it.

[OfDeath]

If we pretend that god existed for hypothetical reasons, no I still wouldn't do it. Just for being asked to do something immoral, I'll go and do every other thing which would piss that god off.

[420Rachel]

Ha. Sorry God ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ But the only time I would take someone's life is if my own life or the life of someone I cared about was in danger.

[DeviloftheValleys]

well, no. my religion would have to change significantly to even see anyone as a heathen in the first place, so the day the leaders of my religion want murder of heathens is the day i leave it.

[bklynbadboy1]

My god would never ask that of me. You must be atheist right

[douride2]

It just isn't in me to kill someone. I could never do it.

[OddBeMe]

Funny how every person's god only believes in things they believe in.

[EmmaMary]

Phew! What a hell of a question to answer.

[User2300]

Hmm depends who it is... joking I won't.

[Gwenhwyfar]

No. I would not.

[GoodGuyBreakingBad]

I wouldn't be able to murder anyone

[SpaceGalaxy]

NO I would question that so-called GOD

[WowwGirl]

I got called a heathen my whole childhood so no

[QuietRunner]

It wouldn't be my religious doctrine to start with

[Dave31989]

nope

[CubaPirate]

WTF SMH