Why do Some people hate Christianity?

Question

Is it because it says Dont kill, Love your enemies- Dont divorce- Dont marry a Divorce woman-Dont drink or take drugs or what? does believing in this makes your life miserable and thats why some hate christianity to lead a moral less life? whats the reason.

Answer 1

Hate is always based originally in fear. People fear what they don't understand. What makes them feel afraid they hate.

For some people, it could be a hate handed down from generation-to-generation. They may not even understand or know the reason why they hate, just that their family always has and so they do too.

For others, they may have had a bad experience with someone who happened to be a Christian and ended up hating them. That hate transfers to all Christians.

And it could be that some people are angry with God and haven't found their way yet. For them, anything connected with God is something to hate.

How do you overcome hate? Always with love.

Answer 2

I don't hate Christianity, I was raised Rpman Cathiolic in fact. However, I no longer go to church nor do I much believe in the doctrine. It all seems like a business more than anything else. I went to a church presentation for people getting ready to be married and all they talked about for an hour was the tithe and why we should give 10% of our income to the church, whether we even go to church or not. The religion itself is very narro-minded, and doesn't change with the times. What, proof of life before humans? Impossible, Adam & Eve were the first! How about leading moral less lives... is that anything like your priests who molest little boys and the church leadership for years has simply ignored it and swept it under the rug. No, I'm fine on my own, if there really is a hell, which I doubt, I guess I'll see all of the other non-believers there.

Answer 3

Hatred of Christianity is caused by the evil behavior done in the name of Christianity. Unfortunately for all of the honest, decent Christians, the main public face of Christianity in the U.S. today is that of the far religious right, which is almost certainly the biggest threat to modern Western culture.

While there are certainly good elements to Christianity, what we tend to think of when we think of Christianity is the anti-abortion movement, the creationists, the groups that attack homosexuality and other religions, the groups that "bear false witness" against atheists, and the "this is a Christian Nation" traitors. Until Christianity can purge itself of these evils, it is doomed to be hated - and rightfully so - by the rest of us.

Similarly, your suggestion that non-Christians "lead a moral less life" is wrong, and is the kind of thing that contributes to a hatred of Christianity. If you want to support Christianity you cannot suggest that being non-Christian makes a person "moral less". Saying that simply reinforces the immorality of the right-wing of Christianity.

It's not a very good idea to pretend that hatred of Christianity is aimed at commandments like "don't kill" and "love your enemies". That's what is called a "Strawman argument", which is when you claim that the person you disagree with is making a ridiculous argument (one that he really isn't making). _Of course_ those of us who hate the far right Christianity aren't arguing that there's something wrong with the commandment not to kill. That's just silly, and it doesn't fool anyone.

Answer 4

They don't understand that it is in the greatest good for all men and women to live in an environment that respects the God given rights of individuals and families to health, peace, security, and the freedom to seek a higher truth without repercussions. They deny looking at parts of the world where there are Godless tribes all warring with each other and mass migrations of homeless and faithless people and the hopelessness it breeds.

They take for granted a civilization based on religious principles and they are some of the biggest beneficiaries. But should society break down, they are the first to look for a new place to move to avoid the chaos.

They only know their own base physical needs and egotistical concerns and when their needs conflict with moral principles, they belittle religion. They can't understand the greater good that is derived by living by moral principles.

Answer 5

As a Christian, I have learned that a huge reason for people hating what we believe is that (1) We don't live it and (2) The Bible says that belief in Christ is the only way to salvation. People don't like ultimatums or other people who do not practice what they preach. Many people within the Church have done a lot of harm to the Christian faith throughout the years. This has turned off many people from the Truth of the Gospel. It's really sad.

Answer 6

I do not hate christianity. I do hate christians telling me I am a bad person just because I don't believe in their god. It is possible to not kill, love your enemies, stay off drugs and have a good relationship without christianity. Morality has nothing to do with christianity.

Answer 7

I think it'd be more accurate to say that people hate christians, rather than christianity. It's because though the dogma says don't kill, don't judge, etc. Most do exactly that. Following the "not perfect, just forgiven" attitude that seems to say that so long as you're them, you can do as you like. Most christians I've seen are the most disgusting human beings. They have no consideration for anybody but other christians, and simply will not leave others alone to live in peace. Browbeating and persecuting anybody who does'nt subscribe to their narrow view of "holy"

Answer 8

All these are correct but don't forget the nasty things that took place in the anem of christianity for nearly 1000 years. Burning women for being witches, prosecuting other religions and more.

Christianity was a very nasty religion for a long period of time. Only today it is refined mainly because people are more educated and less obsessed with religion

Answer 9

Haters can always hate anything even Christ was hated and reviled but it is always love that triumphs in the end.Some people hate Christianity judging Christianity through the deeds of evil Christians.If Christians follow the teaching of Christ about love forgiveness and all the glorious values that lord Christ taught Christianity will be loved and adored by one and all.

Answer 10

I think it has more to do with the utter ridiculousness of the Abrahamic cults of desert monotheism (Judaism, Christianism, Islam). Althought they are all ridiculous, Christianity seems to have adopted obnoxiousness as a matter of policy... and so, they carry the additional burden of being profoundly annoying.
Of course, you were just being silly with the things that you listed. But even at a superficial level, Christianity is irrational... and at a deeper level, it is quite insane.

Consider some of the 'inerrant truths' from the bible:
*  a universe in which all that exists are the earth and heaven
*  solid 'firmament' structure (the sky) seperating the earth from heaven (terrarium earth)
*  talking snakes and donkeys
*  demons chased out of people and into pigs
*  friendly spirits
*  evil spirits
*  walking on water
*  multiplying loaves and fishes
*  people raising from the dead
*  stopping the sun in its tracks
*  parting seas
*  people being bodily sucked up into heaven (which, by the way, lies on the 'other side' of the sky)
*  world-wide flood that drowned the earth to a depth of 40 feet above the tallest mountain
*  creating people from dust bunnies and ribs
*  magical tree of knowledge
*  god speaking from a burning bush
*  ritual cannibalism, by eating god in the form of a cracker.

It is quite evident that in a sane world, if someone were to go around asserting that ANY of those things represented an innate 'truth' pertaining to the nature of existence and reality, that person would end up being locked up in the 'State Farm for the Funny'. Oddly, though, MASS insanity seems to convey some sort of automatic immunity along with it, since hundreds of millions of people assert ALL of these things to be true, and nobody thinks anything of it (well... SOME of us do). Not only are these people NOT locked up, but it is considered to be bad manners... politically incorrect... 'intolerant'... to even call attention to the obvious insanity of these ideas. Yet approximately 87% of the adult population of the USA is INFECTED by what seems to be some sort of insidious brain virus, that is transmitted in the form of information.

How can this NOT be seen as a major problem... considering that this insane belief system has been DIRECTLY RESPONSIBLE for such historical aberrations as the Dark Ages and such atrocities as the Inquisition, the Salem Witch trials, the Crusades...? (the list goes on, and on, and on.)

So, how is it that the myths, superstitions, fairy tales and fantastical delusions of an ignorant bunch of Bronze Age fishermen and wandering goat herders have come to represent some kind of cosmic 'TRUTH'... without the least bit of credible evidence.

Sorry, but rational people have the moral duty and ethical responsibility to intervene to protect vulnerable minds from being contaminated by Bronze Age myths and wilful ignorance, for the sake of our nation, the world and humanity.