Christianity/Atheism Why all the Peer Pressure?

Question

Come on admit it you ALL do it, Christians
AND Athiests.So tell me why? I cannot for the life
of me think of a single time I have peer pressured
anyone into following my religion. And if it is not pressure
it is ALWAYS degrading insults.

So lets hear it, and all who deny that any in
their group doesn't is kidding themselves.

I WANT TO HEAR FROM CHRISTIANS
AND ATHIESTS< BOTH OF YOU
DO THIS! thank you ^_~

Answer 1

Oh come on, be an atheist. You know you want to. All of the cool kids are...

If you don't become an atheist, you can't sit at our table in the lunch room. And you can't come to our cool atheist parties. And you'll never have a cool atheist boyfriend.

The choice is yours...

;)

Answer 2

I certainly won't deny that there are some rather rude people on both sides of this fence.

All I can do is my own little part to mend the image. I have never purposely been insulting or degrading, I try rather to teach, to bring a small bit of enlightenment that people may not have known before. Something for them to chew on, perhaps. And I reserve judgements as best as I can, because I know that it is not my place, nor anyone else's.

Jesus's followers were commissioned to go out and spread the good news, not beat it into someone until they can vomit it back at you. Forcing a religion onto someone is just as bad, if not worse, than allowing them to choose to live without it, because then it is a false love at best, and a bitter hatred at worst. God gave us free will so we can choose to freely love him. Or, we can choose to not.

Answer 3

Look, in here there is free-wheeling "discussion" and hooting and hollering - it's a public space. One must expect a considerable diversity of opinion, and expect all kinds of public behavior. Razzing, badgering, bad-mouthing, sarcasm and so on. It's not like we have here an academic seminar or something more or less formal where a certain amount of common politeness would be the rule.

Additionally, if you will take some notice, many Christian proponents state their case, or cases, in a manner that is disrepectful of others - they are sinners, they are persecutors, they are going to hell, they are stupid, blind, deaf, etc.

Just because you don't "pressure" people about your religion does not mean that other Christians don't, big time. The badinage in here reflects the tensions between non_believers who regard themselves as good citizens with good morals, humane and ethical, and those Christians who condemn and browbeat them as immoral libertines and worse for not agreeing with them.

If Christians did not so continually and apparently uninsightfully strive to foist religion into every nook and cranny of public life, and rather just went about their business, practicing their religion in their own spaces, everybody would be better off.

But it is Christians who have pitted themselves against others, not others. Nobody barges into churches and Sunday schools, for example, demanding they teach evolution, tolerance for gays and atheists, and so on. But Christians feel it is perfectly fine, indeed their right, to ban books in libraries, demand Creationist doctrine be taught in public schools, and rant against gays and even pass laws against them, and rave on about atheists "ruining the country" and on and on.

Christians have picked this fight, and they therefore should not be complaining about getting their licks, especially when others are defending themselves against these Christian attacks.

Why is it such a mystery to Christians that their "efforts" to "bring people to Christ" are treated as obnoxious aggression?

Why cannot Christians realize that they try to treat matters of faith and belief as if they were scientifically rational and logical, and thus leave themselves open to scorn?

In sum, Christians picked this fight, reasonable Christians are taking the guff for it along with their "activists," much of what these "activist" Christians are saying is really not religion so much as it is religion-justified intolerance and political conservatism, and in fact is a push toward establishing a state religion. What amount of respect do these people deserve from anybody?

Answer 4

In the "Christian" Religion the Clergy literally forces drives them to and manipulates members by leadership to "compel" people to convert by any means...most of the time it takes the form of being a nuisance. Jehovah's Witnesses and Mormons are typical examples the first Mobil-Tele-Marketeers!! Ugh.

Get more members...To the clergy membership means money money means power and power feeds on itself get it?

Now The Lord Jesus never came to set up ANY religion but to challenge us all to find God within! Within where? Not a Cathedral
Crystal or St. Peter's or Paul's you!

There is the "Compelor" and the "Compelee" seems like you are a multiple victim you got "Compelled Complex !

Just tell them ... "Hi and Goodbye"...unless you like submitting to Peer Pressure?

Answer 5

Well its a matter of research. Read the Bible and I think you will find the answers you are looking for. I am not sure what you would read to research athiests because they dont believe in anything.

Answer 6

As an Atheist, I do not pressure any one to be an Atheist. I know quite a few christians that keep wanting me to become a believer because I will go to hell otherwise.

I respect their choice, they do not respect mine. I only speak for myself, not all Atheists. That would be wrong.

Answer 7

I have never in my life pressured anyone I know to switch religions. I have urged a couple of people who have a religion to avail themselves of its benefits, but that's another matter entirely.

Answer 8

I suppose that some people want to bully you into believing the same way that they do so that they do not feel so alone.

Isn't it human nature to try to force other people the wear the same clothes, watch the same TV shows, have the same opinions, etc.?

Answer 9

Its not that were pushing our religion(christianity),the bible tells us what is going to happen to you if they close your casket lid and you haven't made yourself right with God,this is serious stuff,we have all turned our backs on God and he's provided the free gift to redeem us,all you have to do is accept it.

Answer 10

Christians----Working for God to get you to Heaven

Atheist-----Working for satan to get you in hell