Why do people resort to pushing their religion on other people whom don't have the same beliefs?

Question

If you don't have the same beliefs as other person doesn't it bother you that they tell you that your in the wrong for believeing your beliefs? I think it's wrong to try and push your religion on other. Respect what others believe even if you don't agree. Am I right?

I respect all honest opinions. Whether or not you agree.

Answer 1

Arrogance, nobody wants to admit their belief could be wrong.

Answer 2

No, you're not right.

Pushing one's beliefs on other people is peculiar to Christianity. Christianity is nothing more than a criminal business enterprise... in fact, it is the world's longest running and most successful Multi-Level Marketing (MLM) scam. The product they are selling is 'salvation'. FORTUNATELY, it only works on those who are gullible enough to fall for it. UNfortunately, THAT accounts about 87% of the population of the USA. (There are a lot more people who DON'T know how to think properly than there are people who DO know how to think properly.) That is why there are a lot more religious people in the USA than there are 'Free-thinkers'... including Atheists. Also, Christians are generally too dense to realize that proselytizing (spreading the 'good news') is a key element of the Christian MLM MARKETING PLAN, which was instituted after Christianity lost the political power that had previously allowed them to simply torture and kill anybody who did not comply. Now, they attempt to just pester people to death, through persistent obliviousness and obnoxiousness.

Also, it is condescending and hypocritical to say that you respect someone else's beliefs. Think about it... faith-based belief constitutes a sense of certainty that you are privy to the 'truth' pertaining to fundamental issues of existence and reality. That being said, it follows that since you know the 'truth', everybody else's beliefs must be wrong... i.e., nonsense. So, by saying that you respect the other person's beliefs is the same thing as saying you respect nonsense. That, my friend, is dishonest... and, an absurdity.

Personally, I think that ALL faith-based belief is a form of delusion. Belief is an insidious mind-killer... it cuts one off from the consideration of alternative possibilities. The most important step that a person can take in the process of personal realization and spiritual evolution is to stamp out internalized beliefs like cockroaches.

However... we must all respect other people's right, in the privacy of their own minds, to delude themselves in whatever manner they deem fit.

But when people speak out, in a public forum (like this one) and declare that the myths, superstitions, fairy tales and fantastical delusions of an ignorant bunch of Bronze Age fishermen and goat herders represents some kind of cosmic 'TRUTH' about existence and reality, then it is the moral duty and ethical responsibility of rational people to speak out in opposition, and make others aware that there are alternative... and sane... possibilities.

Answer 3

If there is such a thing as Ultimate Truth, any person who is seeking such truth should not be offended by another person sharing their faith with them.

I agree that such sharing should be done in a kind and considerate manner.

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My Background: I used to be an atheist. Over a period of time however, I grew convinced of the existence of the Christian God, and ultimately committed my life to Christ (e.g., see http://www.godsci.org/gs/chri/testimony/seek.html ).

Cordially,
John

Answer 4

Some religions include in their theology the instruction from God to seek out converts. Christianity did this via the Crusades and the invasion of the Americas.

Answer 5

Why do people keep insisting on asking this question over and over again. If you don't want to hear it, tell people that is not a subject you want to discuss. If someone wanted you to get a subscription to the daily newspaper, what would you say? No thanks right? Use the same concept! It's amazing how there aren't a hundred and one questions about "someone keeps asking me to buy a newspaper and I don't want one, what do I do?" "They wont respect my decision not to get one." And this opinion is from a christian, imagine that!

Answer 6

I more or less agree

I may not respect the beliefs that you hold but I respect you because you are an individual that believes them.

after all the debates most likely we will have to agree to disagree.

Answer 7

Sure its wrong in the eyes of normal, rational people - but not to the concept of god that was hijacked by greedy, twisted men who just wanted to get drunk off the feeling of control. But there is a difference between discussing religion and trying to sell it.

Answer 8

YOU are one hundred percent right. People who force their faith on others are insecure and in their hearts are unsure or even may think their religion is filth..

Have you seen a person force a perfume on a stinky person, or a wealthy man force his money on a poor person or a knowledgeable man force his knowledge on the ignorant ones? The answer in most cases would be clearly NO!!

So, how can people force their faith on others, if their faith is perhaps superior to perfume, money or knowledge, as faiths connect the material being to the LORD MOST HIGH.

I as a Muslim detest people such as the Taliban who wish to force ISLAM on others as if Islam was filth. I love my belief and its traditions which have lived in tolerance with many of the Christians and Jewish folks and others for centuries. India was ruled by Muslims for more than a thousand years, and it is predominantly Muslim. Large numbers of Christians have lived through the centuries under Muslim rule in the Middle-east and North Africa and Asia. In fact the British founded their colonies in India when the Muslims were ruling India.

I can not speak for other faiths, but for ISLAM I can say this much. Anyone who forces their faith on others is contradicting the Quran itself which says in 10:99 (check www.hti.umich.edu/k/koran).. "If Allah Willed it, all nations would be Muslims. WOULD YOU THEN USE FORCE?" -- this is a rhetorical question for Muslims to ask themselves are they greater than Allah when they say day in and day out that God is Greater (than anything we can even imagine!!).

Forcing the faith is allowed in ISLAM under only one situation. When someone forces THEIR FAITH on Muslims. By extension the same should be done to Muslims (or others) who force their faith without provocation on others.

THAT is the only JUST THING one can really do. BUT, Mercy is even better, as MERCY is the WAY OF GOD ALMIGHTY. Had the Lord been JUST TO US, not one soul would be survive. He is immensely and intensely merciful, that he tolerates us on His Earth and lovingly guides us in spite of what we do.

TRULY GODLY PEOPLE SHOW MERCY or at the bare minimum JUSTICE to those they have control over. THUS a religious person who knows wil never force his faith on others, regardless of what religion he belongs to.

Those are my two bits to this discussion. God Bless the good and guide those who need it (which is all of us).

Answer 9

Yes I agree with you, i think its just that some people go a little to far and try to shove their religion down your throat, beacuse they really believe its right.

Answer 10

Yes, I'm with you a kazillion percent. What kills me dead are the religions that call humility a virtue, then shove their beliefs down your throats with such arrogance. It's enough to gag a maggot!

Answer 11

I respect everyone's right;/choice in their religion. I will defend my being a christian to anyone who says that its wrong, we are bible bashers, we push on to others what we believe.