Would you die for your faith?

[Ori]

I suppose I would, depending on the situation.

 

[Jaymes]

If someone wanted to kill me for it I guess I wouldn't have much of a choice.

 

[jewscout]

if it comes down to it.

 

[michel]

I think that would be the greatest honour God could bestow on me.

 

[cardero]

Would you die for your faith?
No, but I would die for my truths.

 

[robtex]

I suppose I would, depending on the situation.

Interesting sentiment. There are three reasons people die for their religion

1) as a self-sacrifice. If one were do to this I would prepose they found merit in martydom. That could be a thread ontoitself.

2) They are willing to kill for their religion too. And their death in the partipation of a holy war or cause is acceptable

3) An unplanned demise. One where they didn't forsee or plan a death but they knew it was possible if they propogated their faith.

I justed wanted to throw that out there to find the total parameters of the question. Do yall see more instances or does that get some boundries to wrangle with this topic. Great thread!

 

[Watcher]

I wouldn't be afraid to die for my freedom.
If for some reason america went crazy (ha, i mean more so then it is now) and I was faced with either becoming christian (or anything else for that matter) or dying, I would choose death. No one is going to tell me what I should believe.

 

[Melody]

That's a difficult question to answer. I'd like to say assuredly that I would, but I'm only too human. The best answer I can give is, with God's help I could and would if I had to.

 

[kreeden]

My Faith doesn't require me too , but as Jensa said , if someone wanted to kill me for it , there wouldn't be much I could do ... other then perhaps kill them first .

 

[fromthe heart]

If someone had a gun at my head and ordered me to deny my faith in God I can assure you they'd have to pull the trigger...to deny my faith in God would be a fate worse than death!!!

 

[Lindsey-Loo]

If someone had a gun at my head and ordered me to deny my faith in God I can assure you they'd have to pull the trigger...to deny my faith in God would be a fate worse than death!!!

Ditto.

 

[Melody]

If someone had a gun at my head and ordered me to deny my faith in God I can assure you they'd have to pull the trigger...to deny my faith in God would be a fate worse than death!!!

And if they had a gun to your bewildered 5 year old's head?

 

[Feathers in Hair]

Carrdero put it wonderfully, as usual.

I'm not sure if I would die for my faith or not. I'm not sure if I even have a faith, just what I know speaks to me as the truth.

While I would never want to, and can only picture that I might, I think I would die so that people would have the freedom to choose their religion.

 

[Circle_One]

I'm with Feathers. I would die so that I, and others after me, may have my faith without persecution or fear or fates worse than those (and mine).

 

[Katzpur]

Yes, I absolutely would. (I kinda hope it doesn't come to that, though. I definitely wouldn't make a good suicide bomber.)

 

[Melody]

Yes, I absolutely would. (I kinda hope it doesn't come to that, though. I definitely wouldn't make a good suicide bomber.)

Oops....did you just go from "dying" for your faith to "killing" for your faith?

 

[johnnys4life]

And if they had a gun to your bewildered 5 year old's head?

My husband thinks it's okay to lie to protect someone. I have to agree. I have a friend who lost custody of her daughter to the abusive father. In her place, I would take the child and run, even if that meant lying a lot for a long time, because sometimes it's not all black and white.

 

[Katzpur]

Oops....did you just go from "dying" for your faith to "killing" for your faith?

I said that because suicide bombers, to the best of my knowledge, are willing to die right alongside those they kill. They seem to believe that it's an honor to do so. That's always struck me as pretty stupid. And have you ever noticed that it's always the peons who get this job? When is bin Ladin going to become a suicide bomber?

 

[johnnys4life]

However, if someone were to kill me for my faith, that would be fine. I don't really put a high value on my own life anyway.

 

[Zephyr]

To die for something you believe in. That is perhaps the most noble of all human endeavors.

Seeking martyrdom on the promise of a "get out of hell free" card. That is perhaps the most idiotic of all human endeavors.

I would, no question about it. It's not something I would go out searching for, but if need be, I definitely would.