to their own religion?
2006-08-26 05:20:43 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Very good question! Thumbs up! I am in a Baptist church because they tend to follow the Bible and God's teachings more closely than the other religions, but I do not criticize others. There are religions that freely break the 10 commandments even in church, but I don't judge. I pray for those who I can see might be doing wrong. I, more than a religion, just follow what the Bible tells us to do. I think everyone should respect everyone's personal choices, but if you see they are doing wrong, you talk to them adult to adult and show proof. We don't need to be children and put eachother down. God Bless!
2006-08-26 05:30:00 · answer #1 · answered by Mom of 3 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most people who criticize religion only know their own and do not even know that very well.
It doesn't have much to do with religion it has to do with making oneself feel good or safe by demeaning others. The phenomena is usually a minor mental illness but it can become a major deadly illness like suicidal depression.
Perhaps science will find a cure one day.
2006-08-26 05:25:51 · answer #2 · answered by valcus43 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
This is ego. It stems from the animal instinct to seek dominance in the group. You want to be correct. Once you join a religion, making the others look bad is making yours look better. Like flag football you try to rip everyone elses flags off, and keep yours. It is being competitive. So when the goal is making your religion look good, you don't want others insulting it, or looking at your is a critical mater. To see criticism in your religion is looking at it like it may be wrong. Being wrong damages the ego. It is childish, and shows things about your character.
2006-08-26 05:40:45 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
This idiotic concept was clearly established by Judaism in the Abrahamic tradition.
Since the practitioners of their religion are 'chosen' that makes even the most mundane thing they do 'different' and 'better' than when everyone else does it. This concept was eagerly adopted by the Christians as 'saved' and by the Islamists as 'submission.'
I like the way that Shakespeare put it--if a rose still smells the same regardless of what you call it, then each of these religions' claim of privilege still stinks regardless of what they call it.
2006-08-26 05:28:10 · answer #4 · answered by nora22000 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
For the same reason that people will criticize their spouse, their boss, their family, their friends and never see that they have exactly the same flaws. In our society we are trained to blame others, deny our part, down others for the purpose of making ourselves feel better. It is a juvenille response to insecurity. It is ego in action. It is a hallmark of the superiority complex and runs rampant and unchecked, as we are often rewarded in this society for such behavior. Maybe one day we will grow up as a society and learn to give respect and accept our part in the greater whole. But for now, giving away power and responsibility seems to be the norm.
2006-08-26 05:27:59 · answer #5 · answered by Medusa 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
This proves, what I often say, that Human beings are the 'wisest' and 'stupidest' species simultaneously on this earth. People sound most stupid while defending their religion. People also criticise other religions, just to prove that their religion is perfect, which is a negative attitude.
2006-08-26 05:31:48 · answer #6 · answered by jikg 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think the answer and it holds across the board to all world views is that by and large we are not taught how to think, only what to think. Even within our educational systems we are just taught repetition of facts, but never how to analyze facts and the laws of logic. I think religion is just the easiest area to spot it in, but I think if you pressed this in other areas of people's lives you'd find the same principle in play.
2006-08-26 05:33:53 · answer #7 · answered by westfallwatergardens 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not only the criticism, but the hipocrasy that is involved. We should love one another as brothers and sisters, but even the highly religous frown upon unlikeables. Experience is the key, wlak in their shoes, or socks.
2006-08-26 05:33:26 · answer #8 · answered by d2darodoubleb 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It,s called ignorance, comes from an uninformed education. If your told your ignorant all your life, you believe it to be true when you grow up.....the same for religion..".there is no other religion but ours and all others must be destroyed!!!!" Doesn't that sound familiar???
2006-08-26 05:29:11 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
because they see their religion as the best, and the right way.
2006-08-26 05:33:40 · answer #10 · answered by gnomeworshipper13 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋