Why are you reporting me and having my questions removed? Did I hit a nerve? Make you think?

Question

10 - You vigorously deny the existence of thousands of gods claimed by other religions, but feel outraged when someone denies the existence of yours.
9 - You feel insulted and "dehumanized" when scientists say that people evolved from other life forms, but you have no problem with the Biblical claim that we were created from dirt.

8 - You laugh at polytheists, but you have no problem believing in a Triune God.
7 - Your face turns purple when you hear of the "atrocities" attributed to Allah, but you don't even flinch when hearing about how God/Jehovah slaughtered all the babies of Egypt in "Exodus" and ordered the elimination of entire ethnic groups in "Joshua" including women, children, and trees!
6 - You laugh at Hindu beliefs that deify humans, and Greek claims about gods sleeping with women, but you have no problem believing that the Holy Spirit impregnated Mary, who then gave birth to a man-god who got killed, came back to life and then ascended into the sky.

5 - You are willing to spend your life looking for little loopholes in the scientifically established age of Earth (few billion years), but you find nothing wrong with believing dates recorded by Bronze Age tribesmen sitting in their tents and guessing that Earth is a few generations old.
4 - You believe that the entire population of this planet with the exception of those who share your beliefs -- though excluding those in all rival sects - will spend Eternity in an infinite Hell of Suffering. And yet consider your religion the most "tolerant" and "loving."
3 - While modern science, history, geology, biology, and physics have failed to convince you otherwise, some idiot rolling around on the floor speaking in "tongues" may be all the evidence you need to "prove" Christianity.
2 - You define 0.01% as a "high success rate" when it comes to answered prayers. You consider that to be evidence that prayer works. And you think that the remaining 99.99% FAILURE was simply the will of God.

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1 - You actually know a lot less than many atheists and agnostics do about the Bible, Christianity, and church history - but still call yourself a Christian.

Answer 1

I didn't report you. I thought your thoughts were valid. I guess it just proves what you were trying to say in your analogy that people are close-minded when it comes to their personal religion.

Answer 2

Point 1: True many Christians know alot less then they should know and thus it makes them easy targets. Thankfully there are teachers out there who can teach the truth of the bible and put right the attempts of misguiding like what you are trying.

How can you ever know the whole truth when you have know faith yourself?

Point 2: You sure those figures are correct? Tell me when was the last time you ran a check throughout the world on all the people who are ever prayed and had or had not had their prayers answered. I know you could not have done that, so either your guessing or.... you have faith in it.

Point 3: Christianity was never founded on proof, and is not about proof, Jesus himself said that those who have faith and have not seen him are more blessed than those who have seen him and have faith. Its about faith, hence why its a religon, not a science.

Point 4: In the history of the earth religon has been mostly about sacrifice (look at the Babylonian Gods and Caanite) Christianity in essence is tolerant and loving because it gives you a chance to change. Tell me if you had a whole bunch of good grapes why would you ever keep the bad ones? Unlike grapes however we can change, but it won't stop the split from happening. A chaotic world as we have now where men rape 3 month old babies and murder under the pretence of justice is evidence of the mixing of good and bad grapes.

Point 5: Well lets see, considering the Egyptian civilisations is 7 thousand years old and yet they managed to create advanced mathmatics which ensured the survival of the pyramids up to this day as well as their nation I shouldn't think that the tribesmen had no sense of time. So what if they didn't know how old the earth is? In fact I should think not even scientists know how old the earth is, it is in the end, scientists best guess. Look at Newton? He got proven wrong by Einstien. Also I need not find loopholds in science, it already has enough holes in it as it is!

Point 6: Firstly get your facts right, Mary wasn't impregnated by the Holy Spirit. Secondly the difference here is God cares for us, his son died for us so that we may be cleansed of sin. Finally if you hadn't noticed, under all the attempts for people to destroy Chrisitanity ( look at Nero) Chrisitanity has prevailed on, we struggled then and we struggle now, but we prevail. Also my personal opinion is that you may believe in whomsoever you wish, I would not force another to believe in my God through fear and terror. Yet I do not laugh at their beliefs either, it is their choice. The uneducated laugh at others beliefs, and in doing so make a mockery of their own.

Point 7: You obviously should read the bible a bit more carefully. The last plague of Egypt ( the slaughter of the first born) was decreed by PHAROAH, not decreed by God, it was Pharoah who called for the slaughter. By elimination do you mean to be bred out? Or do you mean like a modern day war on Iraq, there are many forms of elimation and slaughter, some can be helped and others can't either way you shouldn't judge them until you know all the facts, and on many of them you never will.

Point 8: I have never laughed at polytheists, perhaps some have, again don't judge, God is not 3 God's he is one, a part is in his followers, another part is in his son, and the last is him. Call it a unification, something us humans are terrible at doing ( look at the U.N).

Point 9: Everything is connected in some way or another. A unification, on a level we may be connected to apes, but we are not of them, on a molecular level we may be connected to mice, but again we are not of them. Dirt you call it, earth others call it, existence I call it.

Point 10: We deny the existence of others because of this thousandth year conflict. To realise the existence of another is to deny our own, a foolish gesture.

Summed up, try destroying something else than other peoples faith, take it out on a punch bag if need be. God is around and he sees you well enough.

Answer 3

This "question" (!?!) has been "asked" dozens of times here already. The "question" contains many outright lies and gross distortions about the bible and true Christianity. Here are a few Scriptural thoughts to consider:

(Romans 16:17) Keep your eye on those who cause divisions and occasions for stumbling contrary to the teaching that you have learned, and avoid them.

(2 Corinthians 4:4-6) The god of this system of things has blinded the minds of the unbelievers

(Philippians 2:14-15) In among a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you are shining as illuminators in the world

(1 Timothy 6:3-5) If any man teaches other doctrine and does not assent to healthful words, those of our Lord Jesus Christ, nor to the teaching that accords with godly devotion, he is puffed up with pride, not understanding anything, but being mentally diseased over questionings and debates about words. From these things spring envy, strife, abusive speeches, wicked suspicions, violent disputes about trifles on the part of men corrupted in mind and despoiled of the truth

Learn more:
http://www.watchtower.org/library/w/2003/3/1/article_01.htm

Answer 4

With all due respect to the Y!Answers staff (who have a nearly impossible job to do), their criteria for removing questions/answers seem inconsistent at best. I've asked and answered many questions on the religion thread, but recently got my first violation notice for answering a question about that dreadful song "Danny Boy." (!)

I suspect the Y!A team get so many abuse reports that at least some of their decisions are based on their assumptions about their users -- that is, content deemed likely to offend more people is more likely to be removed, while content considered offensive to a smaller group has a better chance of being left in place.

Answer 5

I read your ten points, and they do hit a nerve. Sometimes it is hard to be a Christian, and you do have a point with all of your comments. Many of them we talk about in my church, and we never seem to come up with a definite answer.

I am a Christian, but there are things about Christianity that bother me, especially when I think about the salvation prospects of those who do not accept Jesus Christ as their Savior. I know lots of good people who are not Christians. It takes alot of faith in God to believe that He will do right by these people.

I hope your questions are not being removed because they are simply questioning Christianity. I also hope that you were not personally attacking Christians or using inappropriate comments to enrage them. Keep asking questions like this!

Answer 6

I am so sorry that you have hardened your heart against the truth of Jesus Christ. You don't know what you're missing.

As for your accusations, they're hardly fair.

We believe our God is the only real God because we have seen His power in the world and in lives around us. Beyond that, our minds are just strong enough to have faith in someone we can't see.

As for the theory of evolution: to be a theory, a hypothesis must be true in all cases at all times. Life forms are no longer evolving into humans, so the theory is invalid. And when it comes to the dust thing, why do you think that when we die and the "breath of life" leaves us, we become dust once again? God made us that way, that's enough.

We don't believe in three separate gods, we believe in one true God with many different characteristics--God in three persons. You have the Father (the Creator, King of Heaven); the Son--Jesus Christ--who was the human manifestation of God, sent to Earth to be the perfect sacrifice, the unblemished Lamb of God; and the Holy Spirit, which is the Spirit of God left to guide us through life on Earth and to dwell in our hearts.

It seems cruel to us to take the life of children, but when God took the first-born child of every unmarked household, He was breaking the will of the Pharoah who was oppressing His chosen people. Remember, Pharoah demanded the slaughter of millions of Hebrew children too. And the households that lost children were those that did not sacrifice a lamb and ask for God's protection. Sometimes God uses harsh punishments to get our attention. The Egyptians were not the only ones to lose loved ones at God's hand. Through history, everyone has. And I find it hard to believe that people will grow angry at God for taking the lives of Egyptian children thousands of years ago for the sake of His people when every day they advocate the murder of unborn babies in the name of "freedom".

I really can't explain how Jesus was conceived, but I know that Mary was a virgin when Christ was born because, had she not been, she would have been executed and it would be recorded in ancient records.

I question the "scientific" age of Earth because of the evidence they use to "prove" it. Most of their evidence is based on the theory of evolution, which I do not believe for reasons already explained.

Tolerant is not the word for us. I hate the word. But loving is. The fact that people are making choices not to believe in Christ as Lord and Savior and condemning themselves--yes, I said it, they're condemning themselves--does not mean that we are unloving. You can love people all you want, but that won't stop them from making choices that hurt them. A mother loves her son, but her son goes out and murders someone. Does it mean that he shouldn't get the death penalty--the consequence for his actions--just because his mother and father love him?

I have no clue what you mean by the "idiot rolling and speaking tongues" comment, because that isn't proof of God, though it can be God speaking through them. Often it's all put on, but that doesn't mean it's never real.

Prayer is NEVER a failure. Just because the prayer wasn't answered in the way that we wanted, that doesn't mean that the prayer wasn't answered at all. Sometimes God says yes, sometimes He says no, and sometimes He tells us to wait. That doesn't mean that the prayer wasn't real.

Christians don't know everything. You don't have to know everything to be a Christian. It's not your knowledge that saves you, it's your faith. And it's a constant journey to learn more.

As for striking a nerve, I am slightly offended at these accusations because they are generalizations. If you want to talk about this in a civil and unaccusing manner, that's one thing. Your approach was just a little too offensive.

Answer 7

Because you are showing the same arrogance and disrespect to Christians that you claim Christians are doing to you.
That makes you a hypocrite.
Argue your point without the hysterics and mud slinging and you will be taken seriously.

Answer 8

Perhaps it is the annoying way you are asking and continually reposting the list with a different title? Oh and then there is the fact that most of the postings have not had a question in them.

Answer 9

Which "christian" religion are you referring to? How do I even know if you're talking to me? How should I know if I should answer? 'cause a lot of that stuff I don't believe...and I'm Christian.

Answer 10

People delete your questions because they are not really questions at all. They are nothing but propaganda. To have your beliefs is fine but do not force them down someone elses stomach. You should be ashamed of yourself.

Answer 11

I think people are just tired of reading your crap and are trying to force you to go the hell outside for once and put the freaking book down!!