Why is it that no matter how learned we are, people still refer to true Christians as ignorant and intolerant?

Question

How are we ingnorant if we chose to beleive in something worth believing in. If we put our faith in something that can be proven as opposed to something that is unfounded even though we have done our research and know the flubs in a more scientific way of disproving religion?

AND why intolerant. What happened to the free world of opionons? How are we intolerant if we accept follow the teachings of the word? Isn't it intolerant to disregard the christian doctrines? Would it be any betetr if we weren't christians and didn't indulge in the sins of this world?

Answer 1

Honestly, there are Christians who are ignorant and intolerant. Who will not even consider a point of view other than their own, no matter how logical it might be, and will condemn others if they disagree on even the smallest points. I used to be such an individual.

That being said, however, most of those that point the fingers at Christians are the ones that are truly ignorant and intolerant. They know nothing about the many proofs of the Bible, and why so many intelligent people choose to believe in Christianity based on the evidence, not emotion. I have known many atheists come to Christ based on the scientific evidence for Christianity. As to the intolerance... I have posted a question about this myself.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/?qid=1006042319132&r=w&show_comments=true&pa=FZB6NWHjDG3N56z6v_2zW3g1fcEPfPPonvjSD9x_wSLHmyoBJe70oQ--#openions

Basically, I feel that most people that are asking for "tolerance" are just saying "Think exactly like I do! Homosexuality is OK, etc." When others don't agree with that statement we see that these people are really intolerant, not tolerant.

Answer 2

Its because many statements in the BIble are ignorant and intoleranct. Also these views have been imposed on all of us by some CHristian organizations who fight to keep the 10 commandments in public buiildings and land.

Its okay with me that you believe in the Bible as long as you don't try to impose your beliefs on me. I don't agree with your beliefs, but I support your right to believe what you want.

I just have to wonder how learned you really are to believe in a God that is so scientifically unfit.

I'm just being completely honest. I don't want to offend you. I am going to give you some links on what I have seen from people who are considered learned Christians. Also some things you might not know about the Bible.

Answer 3

It's not so much that I think Christians as a whole are ignorant and intolerant - it's just that the ones who are ignorant and intolerant make the most noise... Like the Christian Right with their Pat Robertsons and Jerry Falwells...

Answer 4

Because there are some Christians like that, and they 'give you a bad name', and create a stereotype that is easily picked up on by 'learned people'. Forgive them, if you can. I always try to make a deeper distinction, and respect you for your beliefs, especially if you used thinking to reach them, no matter what they are. Better to forge your own path, even if it is similar to another's, than follow that of others' for the sake of not having to think on your own. I also respect your non-angry tone. It speaks volumes that you can be agitated on something yet not scream and insult like so many others on here. Salud.

Answer 5

The reason people refer to true Christians as ignorant and intolerant is because there are plenty of loud people who refer to themselves as Christian. I do not believe them to be Christian; I feel they are fools. Pat Robertson and Fred Phelps fall into that category. They are well-known, while good, true Christians do not lash out, and hence, they are not picked up by the sensationalist media.

Answer 6

I certainly have lived interior the South for an prolonged time. Atheists are the main illiberal and bigoted and ignorant. they are consistently telling you what they do no longer believe and formidable you to have a bad opinion of them. i'm specific that the guy you're right it truly is your genuine self. You meet a individual, locate out they're a Christian and genuine away you're saying to your self : illiberal, bigoted, ignorant. i won't be in a position to believe which you will possibly desire to no longer have an opinion till now you detect out what they think. you're a liar and a jerk.

Answer 7

This may come as a shocker to the critics of Christianity but I consider myself a fundamentalist Christian and there are many who consider themselves as fundamental Christians that I cannot stand either. When I say I am a fundamentalist it is to say I believe in the fundamentals of what the Christian beliefs consists of.

One more time for the anti-Christianity crowd. It is not myself or any other Christian that is telling others who is and who is not going to hell. The bible simply places man into two categories, believers and non-believers. That is not something any Christian just thought up to just aggravate people.

It comes down to one simple fact, a person believes or they do not believe and for some reason those who happen to believe are impugned for having done so.

I know how the anti-Christian crowd loves quoting of scripture so I will not disappoint them. :o) Please notice that this is not what Christians said, this is what Jesus said of whom we believe is who he said he is.

John 3:15: That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
16: For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
17: For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
18: He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

Now it is up to the individual to either believe or not to believe. Christians just happen to believe.

Answer 8

To criticize, to destroy, is not difficult; any unskilled laborer knows how to drive
his pick into the noble and finely-hewn stone of a cathedral.

To construct, that is what requires the skill of a master.
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Let us be slow to judge. Each one sees things from his own point of view, as his mind, with all its limitations, tells him, and through eyes that are often dimmed and clouded with passion.
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Don't waste your energy and your time- which belong to God - throwing stonesat the dogs that bark at you on the way.

Ignore them.
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Why feel hurt by the unjust things people say of you? You would be even worse, if God ever left you.

Keep on doing good, and shrug your shoulders.

Answer 9

Perhaps you should be more tolerant of those that are intolerant to your beliefs. If someone dissagrees with your thoughts about something, that doesn't make them ignorant or intolerant, it just makes them different than you. .. that's all! So try to agree to disagree, that's a good thing!

Answer 10

You are a victum of stereotypes, alas. For every open minded Christian, there are 12 evangelicals harrassing people and telling them that if they do not believe the exact way that the evangelicals do that they are going to burn in hell.

Also, for every person who chooses christianity through a logical process, there are hundreds who choose it out of fear, pressure, parental tradition, or they lack education and they just do it because everyone else around them does it.

Remember, not every christian is tollerant. It seems that the intollerant ones are far louder than the tollerant ones.