Why I'm not a terrorist

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If Islam called for terrorism or the hurting of innocents; I will lose all respect to its author, making me an enemy of the faith.
Believe it or not; I'm willing to go that far -and I think I already did with the Hadith books-.

When I saw that Islam in its Sunni and Shiite versions alike, is bringing down humans to a level lower than imaginable in terms of mercy and respect to other human beings, I lost any respect the sects. That started my current belief.

If I lost respect to the author due to unjustified commands, I will become an enemy of that author.
But until now; every verse made me respect him more and more. I'm grateful that the faith led me to criticize murder, stuff like tactical bombing and nuclear bombing.

Without the religion; I would've been a different person. I have a softer heart due to it; I like that.
I'm sorry for you being a victim of terrorism; Boru.

Delighted to hear your answer.  So, it seems that you would be against terrorism even if you lost faith in Islam.  So, you aren't actually anti-terrorism because of what the Quran says about it, you're anti-terrorism irrespective of what the Quran says about it.  Good to know.

Boru

There's an interesting verse in the Quran:

Sura 90, The Quran:
( 11 )   But he has not broken through the difficult pass.
( 12 )   And what can make you know what is [breaking through] the difficult pass?
( 13 )   It is the freeing of a slave
( 14 )   Or feeding on a day of severe hunger
( 15 )   An orphan of near relationship
( 16 )   Or a needy person in misery
( 17 )   And then being among those who believed and advised one another to patience and advised one another to compassion.

You do the good deeds first.
Then you believe.

Belief make you better at doing the good deeds.

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Hey; if religion is your code of ethics; then it has an influence on you. Take concepts like charity, I'll know that religion affected somebody if I saw them giving.
Fear of hell must've prevented you from doing some stuff at least; right? it did in my case.

Not fear of Hell per se, but the belief that doing it was immoral.

But I'm not sure how different my morals would be if I was irreligious. My morals came from religion, yes, but they all still do make logical sense to me because of natural law and how the world works.

In other words; your morals from the get go made you find a "proper haven" in religion.
I think I get your point; it's the same thing if I'm not mistaken, that I posted to Boru, and the same thing I'm inclined to believe in more:

First you do the good deeds; then religion becomes a proper doctrine to boost your already good deeds.