does anyone else feel that christians are immature and disrespectful to people of other beliefs?

Question

like this for example by mr answer:.
Only the heathen and godless are agnostic.

Answer 1

well yes but since that hoo doo fear of "gods gonna put you in hell" worked so well on them they love to use it on others. sheep mentality that says that since they are the one true religion then everyone else is a heretic that needs to die and go to hell. been saying that or close to it since they started almost 2000 years ago and they sure havent evolved much have they?

Answer 2

yes, of course. This is simply a human quality across the board regardless of creed. Other responses prove this quality in their unashamed written battery and generalizations of Christians as a whole. It would be difficult not to catagorize these utterances as disrespectful and perhaps immature in their knee jerk nature. It would be fair to realize that those who hold Biblical beliefs are at great odds with the current culture and will be living in constant defensiveness if their views are known to just about anyone outside their immediate church community. The fact of the matter is, it takes as much courage to be a christian today as it did to be an agnostic 300 years ago. YOu can focus on the fact that some do a lousy job of representing, but then, that's like saying that Howard Dean represents ALL Dems.

Answer 3

Well, if you are agnostic, you actually are godless, aren't you? I mean an agnostic person, the same as an atheist, will claim there is no god or at least that they're not sure if there is one. So, that answer in particular may have been intended to be hurtful, but it actually isn't.

On the other hand, I think that fanatics do get disrespectful. But fanatics exist in all religions, and also among the non-religious.

Answer 4

You are going to get just about every answer under the sun.

You want proof that Christians are immature and disrespectful of people and their religions, then here it is.

Paganism/Wiccan and witches!

Here's a few reasons for that answer.

1. They burned witches for hundreds of years.
2. They erected churches over the ruins of Pagan/Wiccan sites to try and get witches and others to convert to "The one and only path".
3. They changed their own religious dates to match the events, holidays, and occasions that witches had made for themselves, then claimed them for their own. (Example: Christmas)
4. Christianity didn't come out first. There were a multitude of religions around the world that different cultures believed in before God and Jesus came up and the Bible was "The Book".

There are as many reasons that Christians are immature and disrespectful as there are stars in the sky. And as many reasons there is, there's as many, or more.. people.

Now, after sounding like a bigoted jerk, I'm saying this.
No, I'm not prejudice against Christians.
Yes, there are self-righteous idiots in every religion across the globe.

Just try to look at the good and ignore the bad, unless of course the bad outweighs the good.

I mean, c'mon... many think that the pentacle/pentagram are a symbol of the devil. Truth is is that it's just a symbol, with no prelabeled meaning pertaining to Christian belief or their "Satan".

It gets confusing sometimes. (lol) Just try to ignore the loudmouth jerks that throw their religion around like candy in a chocolate shop.

Answer 5

I think every group has those kinds of people. Christian, agnostic, athiest, Muslim, Jewish, what have you. All groups have people that are immature and disrespectful. You probably just pay attention to one group because you have a preconception about them and it is verified every time you see an example. But you'd find the same thing if you looked for it in people that belong to other groups.

Answer 6

By and large I find Christians to be people who act like they are head-over-heels in love with Jesus, and on that basis, it is not reasonable to expect them to act any other way.

They also seem to want everybody else to share in the happiness that they have found. It may not seem reasonable, but it does seem generous.

It also seems that they don't expect anybody to believe the 'good news' about salvation unless they first understand the 'bad news' about sin and hell.

I don't think that they are being deliberately or hypocritically disrespectful or using their faith as a pretext to behave immaturely.

Answer 7

I think if you believe that, than you have met some Christians who aren't real Christians.

While I do acknowledge that some are like that, I personally believe that you should be respectful to someone of a different belief. Sure, you can try to talk to them about your own faith, but if they reject it, just let them believe what they want.

Just because you don't believe the same thing or don't understand what it is someone else believes and why certainly doesn't mean you shouldn't respect it.

Answer 8

Not necessarily. The heathen and godless are a fact of life. Do you worship the God of heaven and earth or not?

Mr. Answer . . . "Crush the head of the serpent."

Answer 9

Some Christians are, but not all of them. I'm a Christian. My parents taught us that we were to respect the beliefs of others even if we didn't agree with them. My sisters and I would have been in big trouble if we had disrespected someone who believed differently than we did.

Answer 10

Yes. At least, sometimes. There are nice Christians out there, I promise you, but the rude ones who are hypocritical by preaching "love one another" or "love they neighbor as you love yourself" (unless they really do hate themselves, which is of course possible), they seem to be the loudest and most persistent. They don't understand that they aren't helping their cause with sarcasm, disrespect and ignorance. They just look like unenlightened fools who should have listened when their mothers said, "If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all."

Answer 11

No, not in general. We are called narrow minded because we say that no other road leads to God but through Jesus. If that is disrespectful, than so be it. I would not say immature, in general. I do know some very immature people who call themselves Christians.