I hear God called Satan and asked "Can you take the born-agains from now on?"
2006-08-30 14:17:29 · 18 answers · asked by Wiley 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Icarus you naughty boy, you jumped in line and then drastically modified your answer. Pretty sneaky. Satan laughing speads his wings.
2006-08-30 14:29:06 · update #1
Yes yes yes ... I have listened to Jehovah's Witnesses (my great aunt was a member.) Another great aunt was Pentecostal, so I had all of that. And another family member was Baptist.
They all claimed that they were the only group who really knew God and had a valid salvation. They spent a lot of time discrediting the others and backstabbing other religions with their idea that God was speaking to them and not to the others.
At the end of the day, they were all the same, just different shades of the same colour. Fanatics, and they could not be reasoned with so we all went our separate ways.
2006-08-30 14:41:54 · answer #1 · answered by SB 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Deeply disturbing.
Religion is inherently sinister, even the most apparently benign warm-and-fuzzy English churches. There's something deeply worrying about people who believe, promote and get together to share superstitious nonsense - It's a concept that seems to be the ideal breeding ground for abuse (e.g. child-molesting priests), extremism ('god hates fags' etc.), contempt for human life (islamic terrorists), ignorance (e.g. creationism) and self-destruction (mass suicides), amongst other things.
No doubt many religious people are wonderful, warm, kind human beings, but religion has an almost unlimited potential to corrupt and deprave - You can see every day in the news that there's absolutely no limit to what a person can end up doing as a result of fervently held religious convictions. I'm reminded of that saying... something along the lines of "good men will do good, and evil men will do evil, but for good men to do evil, that takes religion".
Perhaps the biggest problem is that religious belief denies morality, and the more fanatical and fundamentalist the believer, the more amoral they are.
2006-08-30 14:20:31 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely. The religious fanatics have started most of the wars in the name of God. A prime example is the Islamic fanatics, otherwise known as terrorists.
The "normal, everyday good person" is too busy practicing their religion than trying to convert everyone else to their beliefs.
2006-08-30 14:34:07 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes they freak me out . One caught me in Church when I was 10 and wanted know if I knew Christ as my Savior , I told her yes and she asked me to pray with her right there on the stairs . I never went back to that Church again ..
I wonder if the religious fanatics know , that by being fanatical about religion , they are causing a Religious backlash ?
My grandmother was the most religious person that I ever knew , but she never went to Church a day in her life . She lived her faith every day . She said , " She didn't need to go to Church to find God , He always knew exactly where she was all the time ".
2006-08-30 14:37:34 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Yes, the fanatics are disturbing. Especially when they figure either that
a) They can excuse all manner of behavior in the name of their god- whichever it is.
b) They think they can come up and say "I'm sorry" without really meaning it then go back out and be hateful all over again.
2006-08-30 14:26:06 · answer #5 · answered by Tigger 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
If they lived somewhere else, and had no voice in running this country, they wouldn't bother me one bit.
Why do you compare religious fanatics to good people? I find most religious fanatics are close minded bigots, incapable of rational thought. In many cases they are extremely dangerous, e.g. some of the nut cases in Iraq, and those good people who took out the World Trade Center.
2006-08-30 14:29:11 · answer #6 · answered by Paul S 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It depends. Some people would think that anyone who takes religion more serously than they do is a fanatic.
Now you know that a good christian does not blend into the croud. Therefore, if you are going along with the status quo and you look and act like those who do not believe, you may be in more trouble than the unbelivers because you are supposed to know better.
2006-08-30 14:27:15 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
when someone does a good deed, it is always nice. if someone is doing it in order to better their fictitious spot in heaven, it just seems a bit tainted.
i have christian and atheist friends. if i need help from any of them, they would be there in a second. the atheists would do it for me. the christians will do it for me, but you know they are also trying to appeal to their gods.
very good people, all of them...i'm not choosing one over any other.
my point is: some people do good things because they are nice, while others might do good things because they are supposed to in order to get a 'cookie' in the future. both can be super people...just one of these types seems to be a bit tainted.
atheists and christians can both be excellent citizens. the excellent citizens that are atheist are just a class above.
2006-08-30 14:30:41 · answer #8 · answered by bill loomer 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I find the fanatics disturbing because they are so closed minded and overzealous. They have no room for another point of view or set of beliefs.
2006-08-30 14:36:32 · answer #9 · answered by Melissa 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I find religious fanatics very disturbing!
2006-08-30 14:21:16 · answer #10 · answered by Lisa 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋