why are so many people against Christian's? and why do you put us is a bad category?

Question

not all christians are mean or put christianity down your throats .. i tell people what i have been through and hgod helped me... but as far as pushing the word on people i do not do that...

what i mean is that most non christians take it that all christians are evil to be telling and telling them about god and what hes about... for me i try not to do that but some christian i will admit do that to me when i already know what hes about... and i do not disrespect other religions like wicca and others but i may or may not condone what they do but its their beliefs...

also i see a few i like but i can only vote for one answer lol...

Answer 1

everybody has their beliefs, but i think the main thing is most people just dont want the truth. What they think is what they think we cant do anything about that. Its wrong for what they do but theres nothing we can do other than try to show them how we feel by examples like how would you feel if someone was making you feel bad because of your religion. Its kinda like being in that persons shoes. Iam a christian and iam not mean. All christians have sinned....everybody in this world has sinned one way or another. I say the last sentence because of someones answer about how christians are liars and more. I hope that someday people will respect other peoples religion. Try to put yourself in that other peoples shoes before you just assume they are a certain way! Treat others the way you wanted to be treated! I hoped that helped!

Answer 2

Because just as in "normal" Christianity there are fundamentalist Christians who make Christians look bad, there are fundamentalists of every other stripe that make their group look bad.

Non-Christians (whether atheist or another "brand" of religion) are faced with vocal crazies calling themselves Christians, and rather than accepting the first sentence in this answer as true, they immediately take the biggest paintbrush they have and start painting with those broad strokes.

I'm Christian and I just point out to people like that that more often than not I'm closer to *their* "side" of the issue than someone like Pat Robertson.

But I would never bash atheists, Muslims, Jews, Hindus, whoever based on the actions of some of their people. I guess you have to be a little smart to differentiate, and I guess people who bash *all* Christians just aren't (like Adam T above). Oh well. Don't let it get to you.

Answer 3

Christianity has a colorful history, peppered with the inquisitions, the holy wars, anti-semitism, hypocracy, sectarianism, racism, specieism, etc...Now, that doesn't mean that all Christians at all times, participated in all of these activies, but merely that the institution of Christianity seems to have perpetuated these ideologies, in which many Christians did in fact participate. This becomes a source of many 'Christian Profiles', the way that Americans tend to profile Muslims, etc...So, by association, you are implicated.
Now, personally, I believe in God, and I follow a particular tradition, belong to a particular religious community, but often I am required to take pains to develop relationships with people outside that community, and find the stigmata associated with my community a difficult wall to surmount. I suppose it is like a body, which, burdened by disease, and age, approaches death. As a religious body, every member wants the body to live on, but perhaps the communal emnity is simply the sign of the deathbed of Christianity. Revelations says it will happen, after all.
I'm sorry if I don't have any better thoughts to offer. My community has its own, distinct problems, but I think is in its youth as a historical tradition.

Answer 4

It was Christians who committed or enabled the following crimes:

The Crusades.
The Spanish Inquisition.
The conquest of the Americas.
Slavery in the Americas.
Witch hunts.
The Holocaust.
Galileo spending his final years under house arrest.
Pedophile priests and the bishops who spent decades covering up for them.
Pious ninnies who only want to make life difficult for gays who want to get married and women desperate to end an unplanned pregnancy, and who smugly claim this is what their god expects of them.
The same pious ninnies making it impossible for children to get either a useful sex education or contraceptives, thus contributing to the appallingly high rate of unplanned pregnancies, which in turn creates a permanent underclass of impoverished, ignorant women and children.

Nobody blames you, personally, for any of this. But if you persist in your belief, then you have chosen to stand with the perpetrators of these and other atrocities. Every choice comes with consequences, there's no getting around that.

Saying that "not all christians are mean" is rather like claiming that not everyone who wore the Nazi uniform was an advocate of mass murder -- it may be true but it won't change anybody's opinion of Nazism.

Answer 5

Unfortunately, the lure of xtianity does attract some truly good people who get lumped into the majority of xtians who are hypocritical, bigoted, racist, homophobic and incredibly deceitful. I know, I used to be an xtian myself for quite a while!
It is a shame, but people see the religion as it is reflected by those who practice it, so because the vast amount of you do not actually practice what you preach, therein lies the problem!
To be honest, if one were to really follow the bible without hypocrisy, they would be hated even more, as society has progressed from the medieval ways, presented in that evil book.
Before you say "well, you should read it sometime." - I have. Many times and in it's different forms.
I do not hate the individual, to me they are simply misguided, I loathe only the religions of deceit.

Answer 6

Honey, 90% of Americans agree with Christian values. 88% believe in God. No one except sociopaths and truly evil people will disagree with Christian principles of loving your neighbor and protecting innocent life. However, there is far less agreement on religion and religious doctrine. Don't confuse the difference between Christianity - which is alive and well and dominating the globe - and religion. Religion killed Jesus Christ and, I suspect, religious people would not recognize Christ if he sat down next to them in a church service. Relgion is a wonderful thing in many ways but it isn't God.

Answer 7

Based on personal experience, your average christian is hard headed, and cannot possibly see a world without god, even hypothetically. Also, not every religious group responds as they do. I've many friends of all religions, however, none of my friends will strike so quickly as my christian ones. They threaten and harm those who 'forsake their lord'. Adding on, they also tend to, as you said, push their beliefs on people. Because of their belief, though, they don't feel guilt for their actions, as 'god' will forgive them. You could go net diving and find plenty of religious attacks from other religion, but other than the middle east problem, christians are a more problematic group. On a side note, christians in a small florida town, full of them, tried to burn my wiccan friend on a stake. The police stopped them, but no charges were filed, and no one speaks of it. And please take no offense to this, as I was mearly answering a question.

Answer 8

I know all sorts of folks- and all sorts of Christians. And one thing that I've learned about -all- faiths, not just Christianity, is that the nastier ones tend to get all the attention. The ones who hate everyone, the ones who want to turn our government into a theocracy, the ones who drive car-bombs or blow up street markets, the ones who slash young women who do not wear the proper religious attire...

What moderate and liberal Christians must do is to quit sitting around on their hands and start busting the bad ones' chops. Shut them down! Seriously- they make the whole faith look bad. Their antics smear anyone who calls themselves "Christian". The really horrid and hate-filled "Talibangelicals" love to holler that they're 'persecuted' by non-Christians, but if the more moderate and rational Christians started hauling them in, they wouldn't have a leg to stand on- their own people are shutting them down.

Clean up your house! Be a proper disciple and keep your more obnoxious ones in check. Shine a light brighter than their braying darkness. You can reclaim the high ground of your faith that way.

I wish you the best of luck in doing so.

Answer 9

Because Non Christians, especially on sites like this one, get so much flack from Christains, we tend to generalize when it comes to dealing with them.

For the most part. we know that good Christians do exists althought they do seem like they are a minority sometimes. Take a look at some of the Wiccan Questions asked on here and the Christians that responded with ignorant and/or rude responses.

Answer 10

I came across this website one day, this may not be the answer you want or are looking for but to me its the truth.

Christianity makes a mockery of God. At the same time that Christians claim to worship God as an omnipotent, omnipresent, omnibenevolent being, they make him out to be incompetent bumbler. Or worse. Simple forgiveness is beyond his capacities. God must "sacrifice himself to himself to change a rule he made himself!"

This is not only an absurdity, it is an essential absurdity. It is present in almost almost all forms of Christianity, and one can scarcely remove it and remain a Christian in anything but name. By definition, all Christians worship Christ - in some form - and most worship him as a saviour.

But what, exactly, is he saving us from? Though it varies from church to church, no matter what they call it, it's God himself. A hell created by God, a world fallen as a result of God's negligence, a separation from God imposed... by God.

"It is a counterfeit love that is contingent upon authority, punishment, or reward. True love is respect and admiration, compassion and kindness, freely given by a healthy, unafraid human being."
- Dan Barker, Losing Faith in Faith

Christianity certainly isn't the first religion to promote appeasement of its gods, and if it were merely another supernatural protection racket, it would be bad enough. Unfortunately, it doesn't stop there. Christians elevate appeasement to the realm of "personal relationship", transforming their religion into a true monstrosity.

This is the type of "relationship" that abused wives have with their husbands, that brainwashed hostages have with their captors. It is known in clinical circles as Stockholm Syndrome. Should it come as any surprise that the cries of the church, "The Bride of Christ" sound much like the cries of an abused wife attempting to protect her husband?

"He must beat me."
"I deserve it."
"He has no choice."
"It's for my own good."

These excuses don't work for human abusers, and they work even less well for God. For if God is omnipotent, he must have a choice. And if we are flawed, we are only flawed because that is the way he made us. (No excuses that we ruined his perfect creation. A truly perfect creation does not self-destruct.)

If the Christian God does exist - and I see no reason to believe that he does - he's not worthy of the name.

And that is the ultimate absurdity of Christianity.

- Jason
August 19, 1998


dont assume i like muslims either. they are just as terrifying as a christian