I have been browsing around this sight for a while, and there are times I can't help but to notice and anti christian sentiment here. My major question for you is personally is why.
I tried really hard to phrase this question in a way that wasn't insulting at all. I don't want to sound like I am whining or I think you don't have a right to your opinion. I just want to know how we can improve, or if you have any misconception or anthing
2006-08-21 14:45:52 · 8 answers · asked by rabeekay 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I don't like religion because it is based completely on lies and deceit. They don't believe in the tested and proven facts that science has given us. They don't base their beliefs on anything that you can test, experiment, and prove. They tell people that they must follow blindly by having "Faith". They curse you if you question their beliefs or their motives. They don't want people to find out the truth, and that is why they discourage education and science.
The most dishonest people I have ever met were the also the most religious ones.
I used to date a girl whose entire family was very religious. Her father was a minister and had his own church. They would drink, smoke, and have sex just like everybody else, but they would constantly lie to their other family members about it. They would also lie to all their friends about it because they did not want people to think they were doing these things. So not only would they do these things, but they would make it even worse by lying about it. They are hypocrites.
Also, organized religion is the cause of almost all wars throughout the history of the world.
Also religious people always try to control others and force them to think like them. That is why they try to create laws to enforce their beliefs. And they do all of this in the name of a god that may not even exist. They try to make it illegal to buy alcohol in my own home town. They try to force my children to have to pray in school. They force the FCC to censor television, movies, radio, and video games.
Religious people are all hypocrites and liars. They are the main reason why there is so much fear, death, and pain in this world. I wish they would just stay out of my life forever.
2006-08-21 14:57:34 · answer #1 · answered by Idunno 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't agree with them shoving religion in my face. For one thing, I didn't ask their opinion, and then they show up demanding that I listen to them and accept everything they tell me.
For another thing, they never seem to agree on the same things. Pentecostals tell me that their salvation has more relevance than others, and of course Baptists don't agree with that. Both agree that a person must be baptized in water, but there is a very distinct difference between the beliefs when it comes to the speaking in tongues (supposedly a manifestation of the living holy ghost in the believer). Factor in the visits by Jehovah's Witnesses or Seventh Day Adventists, and you have a hodge-podge of beliefs, all with claims of being exclusively right and divinely saved.
Anyway ... too many differing beliefs, and how they believe in such foolish tales from the bible ... creation in 7 days, Eve's sin, parting of the sea, Noah & the ark, Sodom & Gomorrah (resulting in much hatred within the church toward gays), Jonah & the whale, the virgin birth, resurrection, dispensation of the holy ghost, rapture, armeggedon, heaven & hell, etc. None of these things have been proved, and so what if they have been in written in books that are ages old. The miracles have never been proved. Did God intervene when people prayed in the burning World Trade towers? Or the concentration camps in World War II, etc.? Why don't these wonderful miracles take place today, when they seemed so plentiful thousands of years ago.
It is very hard to believe in things that cannot be proved to begin with, and then with some of the far-out explanations that the believers give, and how they want us to join their churches and believe in whatever we are told, and pay tithe$ for the rest of our lives, etc. ... just too many things that don't make sense. Plus the self-righteous aspect of it, calling others sinners while they put on this big act of salvation by grace, while many of them do whatever they want -- just as long as they go to church on Sunday and tithe.
So, how about "live and let live"? In other words, don't throw those beliefs in my face and demand that I accept them, and then I won't have a reason for speaking my mind.
2006-08-21 15:02:31 · answer #2 · answered by LaRue 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i don't consider myself an atheist - but i am far from being a religious zealot..
the issues i have with the outspoken Christians pertain to their unique ability (please insert sarcasm) to be extremely judgmental.... if you do not believe exactly as they do you are going to hell, if you do not do exactly as they think you should - you are going to hell..
if you do not think exactly as they think you should - you are going to hell..
yet they rarely can follow the path they believe you should yourself take. I have met more fake "Christians" than i have real ones. i would rather have the company of a slobbering drunk than a christian who stands on his self built pedestal and proudly announces to the world that he in his almighty wisdom has deemed anyone unfit for heaven.
a true christian is never judgmental - the fakes seem to have forgotten that every man is with sin...and that the only one who has the right to judge is God
2006-08-21 15:04:03 · answer #3 · answered by al_nonnie 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ok, well, I'm a christian and I know you really want to hear from atheists. But I have a theory. I think they are searching and they don't really know it. They may hurl insults at us to test our resolve...to find out what makes us tick. I sincerely believe that the Lord put that grain of sand working under there skin to call out to us and ask us about our faith. Just answer them honestly and respectfully and say a little prayer as you do...I think it may be the holy spirit calling out to them. Don't respond rudely to them, respond with love.
2006-08-21 14:58:34 · answer #4 · answered by makingthisup 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I don't have any problem with Christians, so long as they don't try to legislate their religion. I think it's wrong to use tax money to finance the teaching that human beings were created from dirt in public schools' science classes, for example.
2006-08-21 14:54:38 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
You may want to view the following. It helped me to understand why Atheist are interested in religion and why some get a tad angry.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4fQA9mt-Mg
Blessings )O(
2006-08-21 15:06:59 · answer #6 · answered by Epona Willow 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because they think if you don't follow their religion by their interpretation you are nothing and it is annoying most of them don't understand the first thing about religion because if they did they wouldn't be trying to convert everyone
religion is about acceptance not conversion
so to answer your question it is not about anti Christianity it is about anti ignorance and anti denial
2006-08-21 14:59:13 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't like fairy tales
2006-08-21 14:53:29 · answer #8 · answered by Cartman 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋