Does anyone get tired of Christian bashing?

Question

I understand that people have their own opinions. However, athiest and other belief have their beliefs. Whether athiest say so or not theirs is to choose not to believe in a higher being. They try to base it on facts. athieism in itself can be considered to be a religion. However, just as non Christians don't like Christians "forcing" their religion on them we as Christians don't like them forcing their beliefs on us. What's worse? Christians are not dim witted or stupid. People should feel free to express theirselves and have opionions. But, they should not bash others. I'm happy to say I'm a Christian and if you become one then PTL, but to be happy about your beliefs is not forcing them. I don't hold someone and say you'll be in trouble if you don't believe what I believe. Anyone with viewpoint feel free to answer. Christian and non alike.

Answer 1

If the Christians keep bashing other religions then don't expect other religions to stop bashing Christianity.

Bash the Satanists, and your own pedophilic and homosexual religious leaders and stop bashing Muslims, Jews or other Chrisitan belief systems which don't conform.

An eye for an eye....

What goes around comes around.

Peace.

Answer 2

People shouldn't be able to express their opinions ALL the time, otherwise you're saying "there's no way we should be able to stop racism."

Let's run with that for a bit: Racism is an opinion based on bigotry, incomplete information, and stereotypes. We have three possible outcomes: 1, allow the racists to be racist, saying their hateful things. 2. try and change the racists opinions and attitudes so that they're no longer racist. 3. Disallow the racists from saying their racist things.

How does this relate? Well, if you're trying to convert someone, you'rep retty much taking the route 2. Conversely, if you're just talking about religion without being evangelical, you're following path 1. If no one's allowed to talk about it at all, you're doing number 3. Why do I compare racism to religion? Because it's an opinion that society at some level *believes to be wrong* and athiests and christians each feel the other is wrong. by restricting or not restricting the language they can have between the two of them, we become hypocritcal if this doesn't mirror how we react with other forms of opinions that are "considered wrong."

Personally, I stick with part 3. Everyone shut up, self included.

Answer 3

I am a witch. I get tired of Christians telling me that I'm going to Hell because I worship Satan. I neither belive in Hell nor Satan... you do. So - no, I never get tired of Christian bashing. It's fun.

Why would you think that you are the one true religion and only you get to have the "glory"? What about Hindus? Muslims? Buddhists? I know what you think of Mormons.

I used to be Mormon, and Born Again Christian. I got tired of the Pastor who wore better clothes than me and drove a better car than me asking me for more money. You can't go to Heaven unless you give the church more money.

I also got tired of men running everything. Witches have a Matriarchal sysem. The hand that rocks the cradle and all. Besides - My goddess gave birth to your god.

Stop forcing your beliefs on me and I'll leave you alone!

Answer 4

I get tired of xians misrepresenting and/or distorting science. their beliefs are based on FAITH (belief in something despite lack of evidence), so why do they distort science to support their beliefs? sign of weak FAITH, IMNSHO.

most of these arguments I see here are the same tired distortions. if they were TRUE, the the scientific community - a peer review community - would ACCEPT it as true. xians - do you learn about science in church?

In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken," and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion. -Carl Sagan, astronomer and writer (1934-1996)

it's not forcing a belief to insist on accuracy. it's ENFORCING a belief. as christians, accuracy should be imperative. WWJD?

/atheist

Answer 5

Yep, I'm an atheist and I agree, some of the atheists on here start to annoy even me, believe me. Of course I don't like to consider "atheism" a religion (although some treat it that way) - to me, it's just a STATEMENT. I don't believe in God. It doesn't come with any scripture, rituals, commandments, etc; basically, it doesn't have anything to do with how to live one's life. We have no structure or unifying code of ANYTHING besides that single statement. I don't live my life based on the fact that I don't believe in God.

Then again, like I said, there are atheists that treat it as a religion, consider themselves the only rational people on earth, and condemn others in what turns out to be a fairly irrational manner. I try not to "bash" anyone - in fact I could care less about people's private beliefs; it's only when religion goes public and backs up dangerously harmful beliefs with holy scripture that I speak up. Religion in the hands of moderate, open-minded, reasonable people (as you clearly are) is fine with me. Religion in the hands of fanatics and extremists does not sit well with me, and while I don't intend to hurt the moderates in my arguments, the truth as I see it is many of the problems with religious fanatics would be solved if we removed religion. Faith in love is a good thing; faith in hate is not; unfortunately, I feel I sometimes have to argue against faith itself to get to the latter.

Answer 6

As a non religious person I get tired of all the people who try to speak for us and tell US and other people who we are. When they are not us and have no clue as they won't even ask or listen to what we say about who we are. I get tired of all the crap that is said to and about us, and yeah it does go back the other way. Although Christians cry over it more when we just state our view and they act like it's shoving our beliefs on them when they do and say far worse. You know what, suck it up. We all have to deal with it, it's unlikely to stop, so we may as well not whine, b*tch, and moan about it.

Answer 7

THANK YOU!!! I completely agree. It is so frustrating when people bash Christians about what they believe, when they are doing the exact same thing!! It's completely hypocritical!!!! Thanks for posting this - you will no doubt get some heated discussion going, and get some rude answers from some rude people and uneducated people, but hopefully you will also get some insightful answers. What you will most LIKELY get, though, is people who base the Christian religion on other Christians and how they live their faith, rather than on the religion itself. :(

Answer 8

Everyone gets bashed here. Even in your rant about people bashing Christians, you threw a pot shot at atheists by saying that atheism can be considered a religion.

No, I don't get tired of Christian bashing at all. You guys collectively deserve it.

Answer 9

i'm sick of both ends of the coin. i'm tired of the religion bashing and someone feeling their religion is better and that kind of stuff. plus i'm also tired of those religious fanatics that shove religion down people's throats when they have their own beliefs. i'm glad to hear that people have found religion and it makes them happy. that's really cool and all, but for those of us that have our own beliefs that make us happy that's cool for us. people do have a right to express themselves, but i don't believe it should be to the point where it makes other people feel uncomfortable.

Answer 10

I personally never tire of it.
lol.
No really, you are not representative of most of the Christians on this site, because most of the Christians here DO try to push their beliefs on others. They are rude and obnoxious about it.