2006-06-17 16:31:37 · 26 answers · asked by teambargain 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
everyone's a victim!
2006-06-17 16:37:13 · answer #1 · answered by Bimpster 4 · 11⤊ 5⤋
About as much as they discriminate against others... "take the log out of your own eye...." You KNOW the adage. The "holier than thou" types will never "win the day" because they make a person readily nauseous. Their great and rehearsed pontifications are just so much grandstanding. Most would be more influenced and inspired by one who really "walks the walk," living the example in an unassuming way rather having to endure the countless windbags "talking their talk" on Sunday but not really being "the real thing."
2006-06-17 23:49:42 · answer #2 · answered by cherodman4u 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends on what those beliefs are. I think that everyone is having a hard time learning to be tolerant of others, and if you express a belief in something that someone else disagrees with, you're likely to be discriminated against.
2006-06-18 00:27:10 · answer #3 · answered by Ally 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sure it can happen depending on the circumstances. But like someone said, everyone can usually claim someway in which they have been 'discriminated' against at one time or another. That's just life.
I do think that Christians are not taken as seriously as they were say even ten years ago...times are changing, maybe not for the better, but they do keep changing.
2006-06-17 23:42:20 · answer #4 · answered by JC 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If their faith is so strong that they impose it on everyone they will be discriminated against when party invitations are going out.
If you see a job interview as a good place to spread god's word you might get discriminated against. Not so much for being a Christian but for being a fool.
2006-06-17 23:51:39 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think strong Christians are most discriminated against. If you believe anything else people just say 'cool' and respect it. And tons of people call themselves Christians without really believing most of it so that's fine with everyone too. But if you are a strong Christian who really believes and follows the Bible people feel free to laugh about it and have lots of assumptions about you.
2006-06-17 23:39:07 · answer #6 · answered by dashizzle 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely. When I was a devout Catholic, I was teased for practicing Lent. Persecution is nothing new to me, even now as a Baha'i, a religion that not everyone has heard of. Some believe it to be a branch of Islam, but it's not. One guy asked if I read the Qur'an and I said yes. Oh man, he wouldn't stop teasing me about being a Muslim, even though I'm not a Muslim, and even though Islam is good. He was a grown man in his 40s, and behaved like a child by bowing in submission to me repeatedly on his knees.
All sorts of people discriminate and are discriminated against: Blondes, Jews, Blacks, Muslims, fat people (me!), Baha'is (me!), devout Christians (used to be me), illegal immigrants, Southerners, you name it.
2006-06-18 00:14:56 · answer #7 · answered by Dolores G. Llamas 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the smaller communities, I'd say no, but as far as the country as a whole, I'd have to say "YES"... We tend to be judged more harshly than individuals who don't have any or as least very few religious beliefs. We have to be "on our toes" and watch every word, so as not to be taken the "wrong" way by others. But, that's as is was intended.. (Christians, anyway). We are to imitate the life of Christ, and if we screw up, and we ALL do, the church as a whole will be judged by the actions of a few.
2006-06-17 23:42:57 · answer #8 · answered by sandagal 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
to be honest with you, i think there isn't one person in the world that can't go through life without being discriminated against. there is religion, race, age, handicaps, and one of the bigger ones now is obese people. there are lots more, but there is at least one thing about each person that you can bring up that can be classified as discrimination.
2006-06-17 23:46:44 · answer #9 · answered by Dana 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If they aren't Christian, it doesn't really matter how strong their beliefs are they are often times discriminated. Now that doesn't mean by everybody, but there will always be those few people...
2006-06-17 23:35:58 · answer #10 · answered by Joe Shmoe 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No-I think that they try to discriminate against those of us who just wish the religious right would just shut the hell up.
2006-06-17 23:35:19 · answer #11 · answered by lilly 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋