2006-09-02 15:41:00 · 9 answers · asked by Debra M. Wishing Peace To All 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I don't presume that. They are just shrill, so you will notice them.
2006-09-02 15:44:53 · answer #1 · answered by Woody 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I get the feeling that fundamentalists and atheists, as well as any others with unflexible beliefs, are the most vocal about their differences in relation to each other. Often, those with beliefs to one extreme or another tend to be the most expressive (post the most ) and also tend to be more aggressive when they perceive a challenge to their own beliefs. Sometimes, when one is exposed to someone with such inflexibility, one feels as though their own beliefs are being challenged. When one feels challenged, accusations fly and the feeling of security is lost. After some time, when all security is lost and one feels that their own beliefs are being challenged at every turn, the natural assumption is that everyone one speaks with is from the extreme beliefs, though that is not necessarily the case.
2006-09-02 22:50:11 · answer #2 · answered by steele_feher 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I do not make such assumptions, though my questions are usually directed towards christians and especially literalists.
We see injustice, we know the majority of voters are christian, and we wonder why so many christians vote (support) for injustice?
Why have we not cured cancer, or fed the hungry, or distributed wealth to end poverty, or ended war, retired nuclear devices, stopped polluting the planet, educated bigots?
Why has the christian majority not done these things?
These are questions that sear the soul and seek valid answers, to which there are none.
I support those who prick the consciences of the majority who seem smug and satisfied that as long as they believe they are going to heaven they can ignore everything else.
We share this planet, and will for generations. Your children and my son will inherit the mess we leave them. This alone inspires the effort to change the way we treat each other.
We can go on hating and fearing one another for our differences, or love one another for our common heritage and common hopes for the future.
Which will it be? That's why I'm here: to influence the outcome.
2006-09-02 22:50:31 · answer #3 · answered by bobkgin 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Both of these groups are mired down in dualities. Black, white, good, evil, up, down, these thinkers are incapable of a complex thought. It's either, or with them. Complexity, variety, they don't get those concepts, such as although I am not Christan I am certainly not atheist. That I am spiritual and love good.
The favorite duality of thought with these two groups is RIGHT/WRONG. They are right, the other group is wrong.
2006-09-02 22:51:02 · answer #4 · answered by a_delphic_oracle 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because the moderates don't bother do get involved in the shouting matches. People see nothing but angry, zealotus posts and just asume everybody is a religious nutcase of some kind.
2006-09-02 22:43:51 · answer #5 · answered by DonSoze 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because labels like those make people easier to organize, like foods in a grocery store.
I have noticed the same thing here, and it's not true at all.
It's very similar to another question I have seen asked here repeatedly: What religion was Jesus?
Can He really be simplified like that?
Can the people here really be simplified like this?
No, and no.
2006-09-02 22:57:54 · answer #6 · answered by STILL standing 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Because for some reason the fanatics get to set the "norm".
2006-09-02 22:43:34 · answer #7 · answered by Jedi Baptist 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Because they make the most noise
2006-09-02 22:43:52 · answer #8 · answered by October 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nah!
I'm a Buddhist.
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2006-09-02 22:46:11 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋