2006-06-27 17:21:32 · 36 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
Do you?
2006-06-27 17:24:13 · answer #1 · answered by Texas Cowboy 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
And what are you trying to breed with that question?
If you have had bad experiences with Christians that is unfortunate, but it's also unfortunate that you overlook those who have made positive contributions.
Christians know they aren't perfect - they are human and still make mistakes too. That doesn't mean they can make any less a difference in the lives of others than you or any other person. I've been blessed by many of them.
Please don't forget the ones that have made a difference in this world by spreading love and standing up to hate, people like Martin Luther King, Jr. and Abe Lincoln.
You might be surprised how many well-known people consider themselves followers of Christ. You might be even more surprised how many of the "unknown" people that you run into everyday are.
Just be careful who you generalize into one group, that's no more fair to say "Christians breed hate" than to say "Caucasians breed racism".
2006-06-27 17:40:10 · answer #2 · answered by Damaila 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Here's a question to answer your question...When we talk about fundamentalism breeding hate, why do we always have to focus on Christianity? It isn't the particualr religion that breeds the hate, it's the religious zealot spreading the gospel of "the only way," regardless of what that may be (And they exist in pretty much every religion)
2006-06-27 17:27:21 · answer #3 · answered by G_Wheely 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
those people who say they are Christians do realize it yes. But a "Christian" loves others no matter what, even if those others are different than they are. I could go to a hospital and wear the uniform of a doctor, walk around with a chart in my hand, carry a stethoscope, and throw around a few big "doctor" words, but that doesn't make me a doctor. a Christian doesn't breed hate, if they do, then they aren't a Christian.
2006-06-27 17:28:00 · answer #4 · answered by cheesey :) 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do you realize how ignorant and hateful you sound by making a statement like that?
All religions have fundamentalists who have no tolerance for the beliefs of others. There are those who feel it is their God given right to kill those who worship differently. It doesn't mean that every person who follows the same religion agrees with them. That would be like saying that ALL Muslims are suicide bombers waiting for their turn at martyrdom.
And no, I'm not Christian and I do not personally follow/believe in any religion, but I do believe in God.
2006-06-27 17:30:07 · answer #5 · answered by i_am_the_dida 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most of the questions on this forum I've seen are people bashing the christians so who breeds hate?
2006-06-27 18:37:15 · answer #6 · answered by lifeisgrand99 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The general purpose of religion is to control the masses. If you can control the masses by breeding hate , it makes it so much easier. The message is "our religion is better than yours" , and the sheep will follow. It is easy to breed hate in people with low self esteem , and fundimentalists among all religions seek out those with the lowest self esteem to carry out thier message of conformaty and hate.
2006-06-27 17:30:36 · answer #7 · answered by mitchco10 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is a sad discompassion...that needs an "other"...to a be a socalled "saved"...
"Saved"...implies so much exclusion and intolerance...
Sermon on the Mount...and the Gospels parables of Jesus...have a purity and purpose...
Yet Saul become Paul...the reformed "Inquisitor" of early Christians...
The zeal for "evangelising,witnessing and converting"...and its consequent "but by this,you shall not be saved"...is a doctrine that has bathed the earth in unjust blood since its very inception...
From 'The Acts' forward everything in the New Testament pits "Spirit" against "flesh"...as if flesh and its natural drives that give life-Greed,Lust,and Anger...are evil...and tho no "goat" exists in the Bible as Devil...ultimately as they extirpated Northern fertility tribal gods...faiths...midwifing... herbalism... they personified perrenial wholism as their antithesis...
Now an entire culture reels with symptoms...Head vs. the tail...the tail was always a gift...
An aescetic named Gotama sits under a Bhodh Tree...he fasts...he meditates....three temptations come to him...stones to bread...jump from towers,the angels will save you surely...worship me,and I'll give you dominion of the earth...his dakinis...his temptations...yet,they like to water down the "lust" temptation...
If he masters these...he masters self...rides the donkey(Nephesch) of the body...The master walks the dog...the dog doesn't walk the master....hmmm?
And in this case...the tail?...the adversary you blame?...the gift of nature fertility and medicine?
Aquinas,Dante,Milton all reading a pseudigraphic text-'The Book of Enoch'...that describes multiple heavens and hells(gehennas)...as temporal places of reward and demerit...in a multiincarnational process of redeeming the instincts into an integration with the soul and spirit...
This nonBible 'Book of Enoch' is the source text for The Fall story....in 666 AD....Doomsdayers predicted the end of the world based on schizophrenic John of Patmos' Book of Revelation...in our time they are empowered with the weapons that can make it so...and they always need this other "unsaved"...a Bhuddhist,Moslem or pagan infidel...to triumph over,to be intolerant towards,to crush...
From the first edict that empowered the Dominicians to have authority to combat heresy and witchcraft...in 1292...until the last in the late 1600's...in peak periods suspected heretics and witches of the prior faiths were killed in numbers that exceeded 600,000 a year...
As they were paraded through the crowd...thumbscrews and stretchers forcing them to lie and say that their Northern fertility father was "Satan" the antithesis of Yahweh...and the Christian crowds enjoying the show...throwing rotten vegetables and dung at the soon to be burned...
I wonder how many of them...as the flames kindled...turned their faces to the Northern Father...and said,"Forgive them father,for they don't know what they do..."
"but we preached and prophecied in your name!"...and there shall be weeping and the gnashing of teeth...
2006-06-27 19:02:32 · answer #8 · answered by gmonkai 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You must be unaware of the Christians who practice their beliefs and know only those who proselytize and don't practice what they preach. How can you speak of all the people who are Christians? Do you know me? Do you know my friends who sacrifice their lives in foreign countries and in the poverty stricken areas of this country with simple love and kindness? Are you serving those who are less fortunate than you? Do you realize how you come across with a comment that encompasses every Christian on earth? Hate is such a strong word, don't you think?
2006-06-27 17:33:03 · answer #9 · answered by barbwarr519 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Christians breed hatred for others? Or is it others hatred for Christians? Perhaps it's just you that has difficulty accepting Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, and see Christians as a focal point to take your frustrations out on?
Whatever the answer is, I bid you peace.
2006-07-04 17:14:17 · answer #10 · answered by sassy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't understand! I'm sort of a "Christian", but I breed Bull Mastifs. It appears that you're the one attempting to breed hate. I see "your kind" all the time, the dogs leave piles of you in the yard.
2006-06-27 17:49:31 · answer #11 · answered by PEVICH 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋