for non christians?

Question

why dont you want to beacome a christian? why dont you want to exept christ?

Answer 1

Because we are not as insecure and gullible as you are. We have a life to lead, not a man-made god to frighten people with. Bet you're American.

Answer 2

i am an ex christian. why do you have to harass people about it. I have my reasons for leaving.I know i shouldnt pick on spelling but the word is accept not except. which reminds me except means exclusivism, the main reason why i left christianity is its treatment towards other christians, and its treatment towards those that are not christians or are ex christians. nice freudian slip there.

never was a christian is not only a lie, its hurtful and angers others. Oh and im a Taoist also, namaste cheshire cat

my experience with christians is very very similar to cheshire cat's my aunt and blood mother both dont talk to each other and both are christians of different denominations. that really made me think and turned me off of christianity FOREVER, given that it was family that i was dealing with. to put some icing on the cake, they wrote me while i was a christian and insisted that i was a thief and a liar that needed Jesus. I was in fact a christian,and no thief or liar, at the time that they wrote that.

Answer 3

My friend, I was raised in the Catholic church and attended parochial schools through 12th grade. I don't exactly know when it happened, but I lost interest in christianity sometime in my senior year and my studies since high school have done nothing but support my view that christianity is, at its best, an adequate basis for a moral community (albeit a usually intolerant one) yet, at at its worst, is a hypocritical and destructive myth used to brainwash the ignorant into perpetual ignorance. Those priests and nuns should never have taught me philosophy, literature and history.

I ACCEPT that Jesus may have existed and if he did and lived today he would be persecuted by the Pharisees (wealthy elites and their paid security apparatus) of today just as he was in Roman times. What most Christians do not see, otherwise they would not be content to live in a world plagued by poverty, malnourishment and greed, is that Jesus was a revolutionary and his ideas are accepted by a great many of his philosophical followers including me.

Answer 4

Why don't you become a Taoist?
Why don't you want to accept that God is a unknowable mystery?
Why don't you just say that there is no God whatsoever and become an atheist?
Why don't you accept that there is but one God and that God's name is Allah?
Why don't you want to join a coven and practice witchcraft?
Why don't you acknowledge the wisdom of Buddha and follow his enlightened path?
Why don't you reject the idea of religion in favor of native American beliefs?
Why don't you want to start your own cult and be worshipped as a god yourself?
Or why won't you start your own sect and claim God told you to do so?
Why don't you want to believe that the world was created by a giant blue cow licking on a giant salt lick and that the saliva created the oceans and it had rocky babies called Jotun that made the mountains and that the moon and the sun are on a golden path, but wouldn't move if it wasn't for the giant jotun-wolves chasing after them?
Why don't you just accept the theory of evolution is your religious belief by insisting that it's 100% correct just like a true scientist wouldn't do?
Why don't you want to read the writings of Karl Marx and accept that religion is just a fabrication designed to control the masses?

There's all sorts of options out there? What? You think like Blaise Pascal that there are only two options out there? I can accept the idea that betting on there being NOTHING is a silly bet to make and that such is the greatest risk, BUT Pascal's wager missed the Agnostic's Dilemma: There is far more than one other remaining choice. I have studied these ideas that I presented in the questions above. I know where I stand on them: a solid "I DON'T KNOW." Sure, I read a LOT, including reading the Bible through more than once plus group and individualized Bible study with the following groups:
American Baptists
Catholics
Jehovah's Witnesses
Mormons
United Methodists (as a UMC member)
Unitarian Universalists (who I realize are not strictly Christian)

The problem was, especially as I grew older and realized that the whole "wife of your youth" thing was never going to happen in my youth, that it became increasingly impossible to follow. I studied other religions and my intial knowledge of paganism and Norse religion did not help me feel that religion was all that serious. There were times I got utterly annoyed and fed up with contradictions and other times I felt like there must be something in the whole mess of religions that must have some worth gleaning. Now I am an agnostic with a strong preference for Taoism and my own hybrid ethics that focus on character and tested universal absolutes. I don't worry if God or Jesus are real because I know that if God is righteous I will be supported and cared for unless God is so abominable that I would refuse to follow him even if he did exist. I will not follow an unjust variant of God - even under the threat of eternal hellfire I will not serve a tyrant.

Jesus may or may not be real. If he is real, then he will understand that I take the path of Thomas and can deal with that positively. If you think otherwise, then I think your version of Jesus is dishonest and dishonorable.

I see too many people using the concept of forgiveness as a license to do anything they damn well please because Jesus is giving them a "get out of jail free" card. That's bullshit. That is the worst sort of "taking the Lord's name in vain" I can imagine. I ask no such forgiveness, so I must be more careful with my ethical behavior. I hate dishonest christians the most.

Then there are the whiny christians. They are just obnoxious. "Why are there so few Christians? Oh, GOD! The world is ENDING!" Ok, Chicken Little! After you're done hyperventilating, could you please stop shooting people?

Christians are also apparently gullible. There's this whole "Right to Life" movement that gaurantees Republicans elections, but then the Republicans almost never pay off on the promise to make abortion illegal. One of the Republican elite even announced in a public speech on my campus that the party abuses what he went so far as to call "the stupid patriots" and was apparently safe in his assumption that Christian selective hearing would allow him to say that without starting a riot. You would think that with there being a Republican president, a Republican majority house, a Republican majority senate, and a clear majority of Republican Supreme Court appointees that they could have got it done already, but apparently keeping gays out of marriage was more important. They trot that abortion pony out and Christians eat that crap up. Just think if they DID make abortion illegal! What would they have left to appease the one-issue voters? So now I'm seeing the word "CHUMP" stamped on these people's foreheads.

All that said, I do respect Christians that are able to think for themselves. I would even go so far as to marry a thinking and honorable Christian if she decides to enter my life. The problem is that there is also the matter of Christian bigotry... I had such a relationship once, but her parents were so prejudicial that they would not only hate someone not Christian, but even someone that did not come from their church (I was UMC at the time). Such foul pettiness is sick. There are more righteous groups in the world - of that I am sure.

Answer 5

I was a christian...well a catholic...same thing? anyway...i decided to stop being a christian because i honestly did not find those stories about adam and eve and whatnot to be logical....... i believe in science: Theory of evolution, the Big Bang Theory,etc
And i also believe that its ridiculous that theres no women priestesses....i mean that's a little machist...and also i believe that jesus existed...but he was no son of God...he was a amazing person, just like Einstein and others...i belive Jesus inspired many to be good people and thats very admirable but i dont believe he had...magic powers...

Answer 6

I don't hate Jesus. I like some of his teachings. :-)

I just view Jesus as a teacher who truly cared for his people and tried to help them learn how to live better lives.

I don't think Jesus is a deity. In thinking that, then I cannot be a christian. Christianity is based on the belief that one has to believe Jesus is a deity, which I cannot adhere to that belief.

Answer 7

I'm not a Christian, but I do believe in Jesus and God. I just happen to have other very different beliefs that don't agree with Christianity. Like hell for example, I don't believe it exists.

Answer 8

Well let's see maybe it's because I don't want to follow a religon that was MADE to keep the pagans down, a religon MADE by MEN to keep women down, a religon that has a violent history of persecution. Maybe I just want to think for myself and worship my own way.

Answer 9

I don't want to become Christian. I do believe that Jesus (Peace Be With Him) is God's righteous PROPHET and I'm obliged to believe that he was sent from God, nevertheless, he is NOT God's son, just prophet. I do of course believe in God, and with NO partners, God is ONE without "parts", because God is holy, complete and perfect, He needs NOT to be divided in three parts. That's what I believe.

Answer 10

I believe that the words of Jesus are pure and inspirational. I do not want to worship him, though, or have my prayers to God interceded by Him. God is who I wish to worship, God the One being, not God, the 3-in-1 special.

Answer 11

Better question why do you except Christ.

Sorry he is just a man with a message not the son of God