to propagate their racist beliefs? What I mean is that in one breath they can say "God bless our meal" and then in the next claim black people are less evolved than white people (portrayed in the racial slurs "yard ape" or "porch monkey"). Also when I say they're "Christian", I mean that's what they call themselves, not necessarily what everyone else would call them.
2006-08-07 09:36:32 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Its all down to the fact that people want to be regarded as "right". They need their concepts and their lives to be clear cut and well defined; if reality suffers, then in their mind so be it. Contrary opinion is not acceptable to the strongly religious mind. Yet they claim to be loving and tolerant
Let me put in another way; Westerners live by and large in a democracy. Imagine if this was replaced tomorrow by a Christian theocracy. Lets how long that tolerance would last! Given the power that they used to have the church would become a more tyrannical and vicious leader than hitler ever was. As they have been in the past.
The recent impotence of the church has forced it to create this veneer of civility. Lets please not forget that...
2006-08-08 01:07:22 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Hypocrites or Counterfeit Christians. They obviously do not know what being a Christian is about. I see no color and do not regard myself better than anyone else. Those who do, suffer from a sin called pride. There is no room for racism in Christianity. There is also no ethnic group that is more evolved than another based on skin color. In areas that actually still have tribes, they may be less evolved, but not any less than any of the modern day people.
2006-08-07 09:45:50 · answer #2 · answered by Gardener for God(dmd) 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A comprehensive scan of the human genome finds that hundreds of our genes have undergone positive natural selection during the past 10,000 years of human evolution.
Genes are the instructions organisms use to make proteins. They are encoded in genetic material, usually DNA, and some come in different versions, called “alleles." Positive natural selection occurs when one allele is favored over another due to changes in the environment.
Researchers from the University of Chicago analyzed the genomes of 209 unrelated individuals from three distinct human populations: East Asians, Europeans and Yorubans from Nigeria. Each population contained roughly 250 positively selected genes; however, most of the affected genes differed depending on the group.
“This study addresses the question 'Are humans still evolving?', and the answer is 'Absolutely,'" study team member Benjamin Voight told LiveScience.
Tammi Dee
2006-08-07 09:53:11 · answer #3 · answered by tammidee10 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You asked WHY they are there. I think it is because they are not perfect, like no one is, or to speak in biblical terms: we are all sinners.
The deeper question is: don't they see that they don't act to their beliefs? Pitty is, that if you go to such a person and try to ask questions about what they really believe, not to mock them, but to try to understand why they think like they do, they quite often feel offended. So I can't really give you a clue what their reasoning is.
What they should think: All people are different, but all are loved by God. Some people might be smarter, some people can run faster, others can cook better, etc. Good loves them all. In the bible you quite often see God compared to a father and his children. Even if one of them is not as smart as the other one, if he didn't become a doctor or dentist like the elder one, even if he only became a carpenter, wouldn't the father not love him as much as the elder son? And if the child would be a bit retarded, would the father not love him as much as the other children?
Of course everyone is different. Not one research could show us that if two people of different race would grow up in the same circumstances that one race would always be smarter - of course, the opposite is also not proven. It's just really difficult to do such tests.
But even if one race would be smarter than the other, and one race could run faster, or dance better, or whatever, does it matter? Should I as a Christian despise others, or should I love everyone as much as God loves everyone. So what purpose would there be to point to people to say they are not as good as others? Would that show my love to them?
2006-08-07 09:52:03 · answer #4 · answered by leatherbiker040 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I completely agree. The majority of 'Christians' are a bunch of hypocrites who don't follow the stuff they preach. Personally I believe in God, but I don't practice any religion. Christians will look down upon for not having a religion, which is also hypocritical.
2006-08-08 10:53:17 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hypocrites.
2006-08-07 09:41:19 · answer #6 · answered by Atheist Eye Candy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Multiple Personality Disorder, compounded by a severely debilitating, at times terminal, case of confused depression, with a touch of displaced, defiant, egoism. . .
If none of it 'makes sense' to the common folk - walk away, Rene.
2006-08-08 05:39:06 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
a true believer in Christ would not have anything to do with Darwinism...but just like everything else in this world there are those who confess one thing and actually know nothing about it first hand......people are people...and we all have flaws.....but we all must be responsible for OUR OWN behaviors....
2006-08-07 09:48:30 · answer #8 · answered by shiningon 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it can be scientifically and theologically consistent if you believe that God made white people from Adam's rib and black people from monkeys
2006-08-07 23:58:48 · answer #9 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's sad but true but I see atheists that way also.
btoo
2006-08-07 11:29:43 · answer #10 · answered by Pashur 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋