If the Bible is a bunch of fairy tales and Christianity is false, then why attack it?

Question

I am very confused about all this fuss. It seems to me that if it is false than there's no worries. Can some one explain the rationale behind all this?????

Okay, Everybody seems to be a little bit confused about this question. I have been reading different questions under the category Religion & Spirituality and the nature of the questions is rather confusing. This question does NOT mean I am either for or against Christianity. It simply means that I don't understand what the fuss is all about- hey wait a minute didn't I already say that.

This question was asked so that some one could explain to me why everybody seems to get into a huff every time religion (namely Christianity) is mentioned or alluded to.
Please do not assume that I believe in Christianity or that I am an atheist

Papeversomniferum, whose superiority bubble did you just pop?

Answer 1

People don't attack Christianity, they defend against it. They remind others how much damage Christianity has done to society throughout history. With the fall of the Roman Empire, the librarian of Alexandria was pulled off her carriage and skinned alive. Literacy dropped. Even the Pope had to have the Bible read to him. In the first crusade, Christians killed tens of thousands of people they called "infidels". The Children's Crusade (1212) caused the deaths of nearly 50,000 children. Preachers sentenced to death and executed thousands during the Inquisition (1233-1834) for heresy and witchcraft. There were the the Salem witch trials (1692) in America. The 17th Century Thirty Years War (Catholics v. protestants) wiped out tens of millions in Europe. In the Taiping Rebellion in China in the 1850's a Christian cult started a war that resulted in the slaughter of twenty million people. In the Holocaust six million Jews were murdered. Muslims and Christians in Bosnia reached a death toll of over 250,000.

Christians are still on the attack today and yet complain that they are being persecuted. Ever hear the phrase, "You can dish it out, but you can't take it"? Christian fundamentalists have been on the attack for years now, trying to deny rights to homosexuals, trying to outlaw abortions, trying to keep women from obtaining equal rights, and trying to impose their own morals - many of them non-biblical - on the rest of society. Non-Fundamentalists are finally fighting back by speaking out against their campaigns, their media onslaughts, and their mistaken notions of truth, and the Fundamentalists don't like it very much. They can dish it out, but they can't take it. So when people of good conscience stand up for their rights, Fundamentalists cry foul - they claim they are being persecuted. They claim that this persecution is mentioned in the Bible. It isn't. This is not the persecution mentioned in the Bible. The leaders of the Christian Coalition are not being hung on crosses (Philippians 2:8). The leaders of the Family Research Council are not being stoned to death (Acts 7:59). The leaders of Focus on the Family are not being thrown to the lions (Daniel 6:16). And yet these people have the gall to claim they are being persecuted in God's name. They are not. All they have to worry about is someone calling them bad names and denying them their request for favoritism.

Answer 2

Why would it seem that there's no worries? Right now in the United States the believers in the religious fictions have a lot of power, and threaten our way of life. The most obvious recent example is the religiously-based attack on stem cell research, but there's also the creationists, the anti-abortionists, and perhaps most dangerous of all, the "this is a Christian nation" movement. Then on top of that, there's Islamic extremism as demonstrated in the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

There's plenty of danger to civilization from religious extremism, and we definitely need some kind of defense against it.

Answer 3

The reason they attack it is because they know deep down that it is true but they're just afraid of living for God and not themselves. They think that by creating a fuss that will some how make it untrue. the Bible isn't a bunch of fairy tales. If you were to read it you would know that a lot of the stories you read don't end with and they all lived happily ever after. People worry because it is true, they just don't want to believe that they will be tried for their sins.
The Bible, Christianity, and God aren't false and if you don't believe in them then you will suffer.

Answer 4

The worry is that religious people will continue to take rights away from non-religious people. It's already the case to a large degress. Try admitting you're not religious if you want to run for office or have a career in the military. Try being Samantha Dobrich and telling your community that you're not Christian but still deserve not to be run out of town. Try being harrassed endlessly by those who think you're pondscum simply because you don't share their beliefs. Try being hated by family members for turning away from their cherished beliefs. Try having religious people diluting science classrooms across the country and dumbing down our children.

Religion looks silly to those not a part of it, but it's more insidious than that. This country is supposed to be about freedom of religion, including the freedom not to be religious. A lot of people these days don't understand that, though. They want it to be a country where only Christians have all the same rights. Everyone else ends up being a step or two lower.

Answer 5

You bring up a very interesting point. Most non-believers are not attacking the bible, they're simply expressing their own non-belief in it just as you express your belief in it. The problem is that you, like most christians, feel that you are under attack whenever anyone dares to question the authenticity of a book with outlandish tales of supernatural events. Or question the existence of a god no one has ever seen. So maybe the question should be, if you hold such an unwavering belief in an ancient book and system of beliefs, then why are you so concerned with the people who question it? We're all going to burn in hell forever anyway, aren't we?

Answer 6

Two reasons:

1) Sadly, some people just can't keep their beliefs to themselves when asked or told to. They feel the need to nag, evangelize, and pester anyone that thinks differently. In this case, it's just a case of self defense.

2) When people are young (late teens, for example), it's another way for them to be cool and rebellious. Not much more to it. Not to say that if a 16 year old voices an opinion that's all there is to it in every case, but often times, that's it. No offense, I was that way, too. Now I just have my own thoughts and I respect others' thoughts, so long as they extend the same courtesy.

Answer 7

Exactly! Well said! Insanity very rarely has a rational and if it should fringe on the base of some rational concept, it is usually severely lacking in even its own purpose or reason for being.

There is no rational reason to argue another persons faith or lack there of. It is all just ego and the need to justify their own beliefs by forcing everyone else to do the same. There is a psychological term for it but I forget it? and it is more common than you may realize. You do realize that by even posing this question you are not only perpetuating it but directly contributing to it just to be included right?

Sorry to burst your superiority bubble! *POP!

Answer 8

The Bible is not full of a bunch of fairy tales and Christianity is not false. The Bible is the truth and Christianity is the only way to have a personal relationship with God.

Answer 9

You're confused alright.
Especially if you don't see the futility in living your life according to an outdated and irrelevant book of bronze-age jewish mythology.
But to be honest, we're not here to point out the contradictions, lies and stupidity of christianity to you. We're here to make sure that people stuck in the christian cult AND who have a mind of thier own have someone to talk to and to help them escape this cult.
You on the other hand are a lost cause, by all means, keep your nose in your bible and avoid the real world at all costs.

Answer 10

Because people us it as, well, the Bible. When "because the Bible says so" is considered a ligitimate reason for civil or political actions, those who don't believe in the Bible must attack the Bible and Christianity themselves in order to attack the reasoning (as there are often very few or no other reasons given).