if i say 'Jesus is not important' or 'Allah doesn't exist', why do people take it as a personal insult? What happens to the tolerence and kindness preached by every religion? Just my saying so will not make it a truth so why react? Does this proves that our own belief in the so called 'reliogion so fragile and so shallow? We jump to save our Gods!!!!
2006-08-26 00:20:10 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Sure - religion has been thriving on two things
1. Fear of Hell
2. The carrot of Heaven
Rest all is common sense and everyone has enough brains to figure that out. The crimes by these so called 'God fearing' people are not crimes becuase they prey and God washes their sins but we mortals live with our guilts as we are answerable to ourselves and not God
2006-08-26 00:52:27 · answer #1 · answered by Mash 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Slightly off topic but not really ....
When I was in school I asked one of the nuns about Adam and Eve. If they were the only people in the Garden of Eden, wouldn't that make us all products of incest? After getting lambasted, detention and told that - without a doubt - I was going to hell, no one in the school could give me an answer.
You are told to believe yet not told "why" it is important to believe in something that you can't see. Faith is something that has to come from within, personally I would rather see someone believe in "something" even if it is out of the norm or not popular than to not have 'faith' in anything at all.
Sorry for the long winded post, I'm feeling a little cathartic this morning.
2006-08-26 07:30:59 · answer #2 · answered by freak369xxx 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, Jesus himself said people will hate you and they will hate me so it's too be expected. Maybe some people's beliefs are weak, but personally I think God can defend himself without my help.
It's just difficult because you are insulting the very core of a human being, like if you insulted their family. So the whole turn the other cheek thing is very difficult to do just like it would be if you insulted someone's mother or something. I think it reflects more on character than beliefs..
2006-08-26 07:32:00 · answer #3 · answered by Moi 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth and the life, no one comes to the Father, but through me." The Bible is clear that there is only one way to God, and that is through His Son Jesus Christ.
I personally feel insulted when people say 'He does not exist, 'because, it is not true, also, I know how much God loves people and yet people try to disprove His existence, when the evidence is so clear.
You are here - aren't you?
You live? - Right?
Look at your hands
Look at your face
Look at your feet!
Think about everything you are - you have identity. Even identical twins have presence to know they are two individuals exactly alike, but even subtly they are different as well.
So you have presence of mind - you can think - react
Yet there is something that is more important than all of this -
thats time and space - you live right now. Can you accept that as random or design created for a purpose by a God who loves you, or by static elements that gives no purpose, no hope, nothing to why you are unique?
2006-08-26 07:29:33 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think it has more to do with identity than weakness of faith. You don't think all the Muslims who went bat$#!+ crazy over some Danish cartoons were lacking in faith, do you? The more that religion is part of someone's life, the more they take criticism of their faith as a direct, personal insult.
Not to mention, some religions train their members to act like this more than others. Go insult unitarian universalism and see what happens. You'l probably just get invited for discussion over coffee and doughnuts. Try insulting Islam and see what happens...After all, what bigger insult to religion is there than apostasy (converting away from)? And you know what the qu'ran says to do with apostates (death sentence).
2006-08-26 07:37:08 · answer #5 · answered by pluralist 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you're religious, you've chosen beliefs that are indefensible.
The belief in a supernatural being can't be defended. There can never be any proof for it... And the proof otherwise is always growing... Pretty soon, most likely in our lifetimes, humanity's knowledge of the world around us will have advanced to such a point where there is no room for a god in the equation...
2006-08-26 07:26:30 · answer #6 · answered by RED MIST! 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know abut your beliefs, I know that mine are solid.
I think the bigger question is why do so many go around proclaiming that something doesn't exist.
If you truly don't believe it exists, I can't see how thee would be anything for you to discuss. If you are not sure, then why not listen to the other person's opinion? Maybe you'll get some new insight.
You seem a little touchy here.
2006-08-26 07:26:40 · answer #7 · answered by steve 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's insulting. Just as it's insulting and irritating and impolite to go around saying: "Your mother doesn't exist." or "Your mother is not important." you shouldn't go around criticising people's beliefs. When you say that someone's beliefs are unimportant, or worse, nonexistant, you are, in effect, telling them that they're stupid for believing it. That is, my friend, an insult. A personal one. People's beliefs are cherished and play a large part in people's lives. Don't tell other people what's important to them. If it's unimportant to you, stay out of the discussion.
2006-08-26 07:40:21 · answer #8 · answered by Katia 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Our faith puts us through the test everyday - what we believe and how we practice what we preach - so it is offensive to us when we hear insults directed to the power above us because we don't share the same understanding or knowledge in our God. It is not that we jump to save our Gods - but that God will jump to save you!
2006-08-26 07:34:35 · answer #9 · answered by tropical breeze 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they are based on myths without provable foundations. we all need something to believe in but organised religion has imposed it's own rules and standards to manipulate people for financial and control gain.
those who ask questions that are un-answerable or prove a contradiction are then called heretics.
remember galileo ? all he said was 'what are these other planets ?' eventually the organised religion could not dispute the findings and so excepted them.
2006-08-26 07:33:34 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋