religious people find it hard to welcome any critics?

Question

i respect every human being, but i feel that i have a right to criticise what people believe if i find that it goes against my thinking.
does it mean that criticising a persons beliefs means attacking that person's humanity?
i dont think so, do you?

Answer 1

What's the point to critisize the religios beliefs of others,let them be good and God obedient if they can..As to the right, maybe you would like not to critisize, but to share your views,that's more tolerant.

Answer 2

I am a Muslim and I have encountered hundreds of people asking me questions, some criticising with courtesy, others blatantly insulting without any logical or rational basis, concerning my religion, Islam.

I am quite immune to even the most blasphemous question, idea or insult posed to me. I used to get all red-headed and fuming with anger when people who don't seem to understand put forward all kinds of falsehoods in front of me.

When you criticise a person's belief in the most courteous, rational, objective way, you are not attacking that person's humanity.

Attacking a person's humanity means to say words or do deeds which bring about physical or emotional harm to him or her.

But if you're innocently posing a question, rhetorical or not, and you back it up with the appropriate and sufficient scriptural or factual sources, or at least formulate it in such a way that it is rational, then the person receiving the question shouldn't feel offended, but in fact, feel honoured to have received such a question in the first place.

It shows that you respect the person you're posing the question to, that you think he or she is an intelligent and rational person like you.

Answer 3

Hello. I'm a Christian and I used to teach Bible in the church. I will give you an example so you can understand my opinion. For instant, a boy loves his mother very much because he don't have a dad, he only receives love from his mom. His mother is the idol in his heart. So if there is someone insulting or criticizing his mother, he will protect his mother and maybe hit those who don't respect his mother. Maybe you can insult himself but you are not allowed to laugh at his mother, for example. In the world, there are many religious people and with them, God is the best and God has some influence on them. They will be angry if you criticize their God. In this cas, the belief is stronger and more important than their humanities or characteristics. You had better repect God, that means you shouldn't say sth insulting God because He is holy. I believe that truly religious people have good behaviour and they are ready to explain Bible to you so you can understand why they love God so much.

Answer 4

It depends on how you approach it. If it is done as a genrealization It should be accepted just fine. Sometimes I have a hard time accepting the critism as it is an attack mode. I have no problem defending my religious choice I am very comfortable with it and will remain there. I think what bothers me the most is questions like how do you m ake love to God. or does he think I am sexy it is so so so unrealistic that it borders on the absurd. I do not mean to insult anyone everyone has the God given right to make choices with their lives and I respect that.

Answer 5

There is nothing wrong with critiscism in and of itself until you do it with as much close mindedness as the person you accuse. If when you critiscize you are as open to their corrections of you as you think they should be to what you say then its all good. Think about what you are saying in your question. You want to be able to critisize someone who is "religious" because it goes against YOUR way of thinking. Well what about your criticism going against their way of thinking? Are you saying that you are inherintley more correct than they are so they should just listen to what you have to say and be open minded and willing to change how they think according to what you believe is correct thereby negating anything they believe themselves? For a lot of people their beliefs are the foundation to how they handle everything in their life, so in away by critisizing that you are critisizing their very core, but don't limit yourself to thinking only religious people have difficult time with this, try it with anyone who doesn't agree with your way of thinking.

So don't forget that in your right to critisize they also have a right to defend their beliefs...its not all about YOU.

Answer 6

I agree that constructive (key word) criticism is worth while. Problem is that people interpret the criticism as an attack particularly when we don't keep the conversations generic. All to often I see FOR CHRISTIANS only or FOR MUSLIMS only posts in here than they complain that they're being ripped. This is an OPEN forum and if you want a specific audience than go find a site that caters to that specific audience.

Answer 7

The only time I criticize another people's beliefs is if they are potentially harmful to someone else. For the rest, they don't bother me at all. Allah, Buddha, Christ... they're all the same to me. Common principles of goodness and such. Same way there's tons of languages in the world, same way I see the different religious denominations. Sometimes I picture God rolling his eyes at us for killing each other about his many nicknames. I think they all are different languages to refer to the same all mighty. Come to think of it with an open mind. I'm not atheist. But I'm not a religious fanatic either.

Answer 8

The fact that faith is such an untouchable topic in conversation is sad. It doesn't seem to be wrong to criticize someone who believes holding a twig will point them to water, or who believes putting all their money into a casino slot machine will win them financial independence, so I don't think it should be wrong to quesiton someone who thinks there's a magic man who invisibly controls the whole world. I say question them, and question them often. If their beliefs are valid, they'll be able to stand the closer look.

Answer 9

Do you have the right to criticise people?

How did that question make you feel?
Some people are thin skinned and take offence at having their belief questioned specially when its based on faith or past events and they cant show you solid proof to back it up

Answer 10

Well, personally, I like this site just how it is. But technically it does say "questions and answers", not "question, answers, and criticism".

I don't mind it though, because challenge is just some peoples way of asking a question. What I don't like is people posting junk questions just to offend and incite other faiths.

That would be like if I hung around in the gay, lesbian board and posted question after question aimed at causing pain and hurting feelings and ridicule.

Answer 11

Why do you feel the need to criticize just because it goes against what you think?? Can't you just voice an opinion in a constructive way and leave it at that???